#Undercurrents was a video activist group that was active in the United Kingdom from 1994 to 2004. The group was founded by filmmakers who were interested in using video as a tool for social and political change. Undercurrents produced a wide range of video content, including documentaries, news reports, and short films, on issues such…
A draft funding application – OGB
Requesting funding for the Open Governance Body (#OGB) project. Which is being developed by the Open Media Network (#OMN). The OMN is a collective that builds and hosts #4opens standards-based socio-political software. Our mission is to provide communities with the tools they need to organize, communicate, and make decisions. The #OGB project is a grassroots…
Our worshipping the #deathcult (neo-liberalism)
For the last 20 years, everyone in the ruling classes has failed you Our governing glasses of every colour has failed us Our media and entertainment elites have failed us all Our NGO and their leaders have betrayed us all Our business and academic classes have grasped and dithered We face the #climatechaos naked and…
What do you mean by “mainstreaming”
Q. what do you mean by “mainstreaming”. A. we all worship the #deathcult (neo-liberalism) in polatics, economics, most of the food we eat, our jobs and social lives are all mediated/mostly created by this invisible world-view. In progressive terms #mainstreaming is pushing this agender to build carriears and social structures to further the personal #stupidindividualism…
A look at how technology shapes progressive/radical media-looking forward-looking back
3 events at newspeak house this winter:Session 1) Looking back – how technology shaped the production and distribution of radical/progressive media like #Undercurrents, #Indymedia etc. Session 2) The current day – failure of radical media technology. The rise of the #dotcons and the new alt-media projects. Session 3) Looking forward – The #activetypub meetup. This…
A brief history of activism
Published Date 3/28/13 1:18 PM This is a DRAFT #Occupy has become bureaucratised and continues as e-mail lists and side projects, not very active. #ukuncut has become institutionalised. Still active – presser protests in conjunction with NGO’s #climatecamp The anarcho’ s left and most of the rest got jobs in NGO’s a few continue in…