So it seems that after a flurry of activity for the climate swoop last week where climate activists met at six strategic locations before converging on Blackheath to set up this year’s Climate Camp the mainstream media have largely lost interest in events.
On the Guardian website today we have bibi van der Zee claiming that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘protest’
Climate Camp: Mainstream Media Yearn for Riot Porn
Posted in activism, climate change, media, tagged activism, blackheath, climate camp, climatecamp, grassroots, guardian, london, media, protest on August 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
