Archive for the ‘media activism’ Category
A Guided Tour of Climate Camp
Posted in climate change, media, media activism on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Plymouth 5 Released Without Charges
Posted in activism, media, media activism on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This story was found on BBC Devon and came to my attention via the Bristle blog
All five members of a group arrested in connection with an alleged terror plot have been released without charge.
Police say the final member of the five, a 25-year-old man, was freed on Tuesday night.
The man was arrested in Plymouth on [...]
G20 Death: Police Story in Tatters
Posted in activism, climate change, media, media activism, tagged climate camp, g20, guardian, ian tomlinson, police, protest, violence on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/05/g20-protest-ian-tomlinson
The man who died during last week’s G20 protests was “assaulted” by riot police shortly before he suffered a heart attack, according to witness statements received by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Investigators are examining a series of corroborative accounts that allege Ian Tomlinson, 47, was a victim of police violence in the [...]
G20 Eyewitness Statements and Video about Fatality during London Protests
Posted in activism, media, media activism on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Various participants in the City of London demonstrations on April 1st have come forward as witnesses to the collapse of a man later identified by authorities as Ian Tomlinson. Four different university students witnessed the collapse of Mr. Tomlinson. “He stumbled towards us from the direction of police and protestors and collapsed,” said [...]
G20 coverage
Posted in activism, media activism, tagged activism, climate camp, direct action, g20, indymedia, london, protest on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For coverage of tomorrow and Thursday’s G20 protests acrosss london be sure to check out London Indymedia and UK Indymedia who will be providing live updates on the day’s actions.
As the Police have been talking up the ’summer of rage’ before any kind of protest/demonstrations have occured it seems likely that there is likely to [...]
Analysing Media Coverage of the Wildcat Strikes
Posted in activism, cultural criticism, media, media activism, tagged bbc, indymedia, jobs, Lindsey Oil Refinery, strikes, wildcat, workers on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While the mainstream media has mainly presented the current wildcat strikes in the UK as a nationalist phenomena, concentrating on the slogan ‘British jobs for British workers,’ they have seemed to largely ignore what the workers themselves have been saying.
For example one of the Lindsey Oil Strike refinery unofficial elected strike committee leaders wrote on [...]
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the edge of Chaos – Graeme Chesters and Ian Welsh
Posted in activism, book review, cultural criticism, environmentalism, media activism, tagged Chesters, complexity, ecology, globalization, media, politics, protest, Welsh, WTO on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This book, published by Routledge in 2006, is a recent attempt at a sociological analysis of the alternative globalization movement (AGM) using a theoretical framework based on an almagamation of the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Hardt and Negri and Gregory Bateson, with complexity theory via D&G deployed to provide qualitative analysis of events such [...]
The Three Ecologies – Felix Guattari
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, book review, climate change, cultural criticism, environmentalism, media activism, tagged activism, book review, climate change, ecology, guattari, philosophy on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Three Ecologies is one of the final works published by Felix Guattari (1930-1992), a French philosopher, political militant and institutional psychoanalyst. While Guattari is perhaps best known for his co-authored projects with Gilles Deleuze; Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy; The Three Ecologies provides an excellent insight into Guattari’s stance on politics, [...]
Bristol Indymedia Launches Indycycle
Posted in media activism, tagged indycycle, indymedia on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Freecycle has been a great, and highly popular idea/group. Unfortunately, the way it is run, as an email list via a Yahoo group means it simply isn’t capable of managing the workload placed on the system. Having to scroll through several hundred emails for the one which advertises what I’m looking for is not a [...]
