Monday, December 28, 2009

Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See

JERUSALEM - The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army assault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died.

When CBC News spoke with Ismail Hawarjeh at Bethlehem's hospital earlier this month he told about how his wife had died, until Israel's Channel 2 broacast the tape last weekend

2010 New Year party

>East London, room for around 30 people, bring nibbles and small firewood for the big open fireplace. Travel and Bohemianism is the theme.

To get past the door you need:

* firewood

* a bottle

* an object to place on the altar of internationalism (something from your country)

Arrive from 8.00 pm or earlier to help set up.

There are good night bus links to Dalston Junction / Dalston Kingsland station (there are no North London trains running over New Year).

Numbers are limited, RSVP

Cute - video

Pixar's Partly Cloudy HD from Emir Albulak on Vimeo.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Viva Palestina convoy reaches Syria

Viva Palestina Convoy Arrived In Syria

Friday, December 25, 2009

SWANSEA PALESTINE COMMUNITY LINK

SWANSEA PALESTINE COMMUNITY LINK 

It's Christmas morning here, but we are not in Egypt as we expected, but
in a car park in Aqaba. After lulling (some of us) into believing we
could pass, the Egyptain authorities told the Ferry Captain that we would
NOT be allowed to disembark on the Eyptian side.

They have given us 3 options:

1. We leave the aid here for the UN to deliver and go home.
2 We MAY go across as foot passangers but no aid can be carried, and even
then we won't be allowed to Rafah.
3. We go by boat to Al Arish, but still not to Gaza.

All ludicrous suggestions. We have already travelled over 3,000 miles, WE
ARE NOT TURNING BACK!

Now I know it's Christmas Day and all, but as soon as you get a minute
PLEASE e-mail, phone, fax the Egyptian Embassey, get in touch with your MP
(easy to find and use, WRITE TO THEM), and local media too.

In the meantime we have a Football Match between the Turkish, Syrians,
Palestinians, Jordanians on one side and the Us and Europeans on the
othere, this afternoon, and home-made entertainment in the car park in the
evening culminating with a ceili!(if I can remember the moves)!!

This must be the strangest Christmas Day ever, but the messages on the
blog, on Facebook, and the e-mails have been heart-warming. Keep them
coming, we need your support now more than ever.
Christmas Greetings from the Swansea Aunties on the edge of the Red Sea.

SWANSEA PALESTINE COMMUNITY LINK

Thursday, December 24, 2009

AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN

Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us
- Mike Prysner

Website design, process and structure

Some thoughts on http://climatecamp.org.uk

Back ground reading http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html

The website design is very static, with the social media after the fold were the majority (probably 90% ) of visitors will not generally see it. A few points:

* People don’t seam to be empowered to update the social media part of the site as the blog is generally out of date.

* The “CC online” part is opaque on how to use it and possibly very out of date – the current feed is to https://notts.indymedia.org.uk/search/by_tag/climatecamp ?

* The twitter account is updated by one person generally.

While putting energy in to content IS A GOOD THING, process and structure is also necessary to sustain this energy.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

An Unfair Deal

Watch the video
Naomi Klein and Vandana Shiva speaking on the prospects of a fair deal in Copenhagen during the COP15 conference

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Free Illegal Seeds

COP15 Climate Summit 12 December 2009 inside the RĂ¥huset Convergence Centre in Copenhagen

The Purposeful Life

Friday, December 18, 2009

Secret History of Silicon Valley

Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.

In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship. Steve Blank shows how these groundbreaking early advances lead up to the high-octane, venture capital fueled Silicon Valley we know today.

Socially Irresponsible Investment Bank - Wormwood Bayne

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A parody commercial for a "socially irresponsible investment firm" By reyrox

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Six Hours of Torture in Copenhagen

The film features an interview with a Swedish local councillor who was one of the 968 protesters who were detained by the Danish police. There is also footage from the hit the production demo on the 13th.

Getting surreally stupid at cop15 as the NGO’s are expelled for trying to stop the corporate stitch up of our future.

Watch the video
The Friends of the Earth delegation have been expelled and refused entry to COP15 in Copenhagen. Film by oneworldtv

THE CUTTING EDGE: the magic of movie editing (pt1)

Part 1 of a fantastic documentary about movie editing.

See our templates on this subject here http://visionon.tv/production they are important, watch the film to find out why.

COP15 Soup on the Front Line at the Copenhagen Climate Summit

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A brave girl walks the front line in between a stand off of Danish Police and activists who want their friends released. The police kettled the back of the march on Saturday in Copenhagen and detained over 900 people without access to water or toilet facilities. Only a handful of the group were charged.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Future of Journalism

Learn how to be the media with visionOntv. First-time film by Hanna Bruche. http://visionon.tv

Monday, December 14, 2009

Molotov! - Never Trust a Cop

This Week: 1. Denier's Dilemma 2. Crashing Prosperity 3. 100,000 march 4. Cop15 Hundred 5. Hit the production

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Climate demonstration, 12-12-2009, Copenhagen, Denmark, many arrested

Watch the video
Climate demonstration, 12-12-2009, Copenhagen, Denmark. part 6:9 The group is caught, many are arrested. By: Dan-Tuyet Tham

Survivor Ball

Watch the video
Survivor Ball Finally, a feasible idea how to survive climate change! Inside the survivor ball you are able to survive climate change for another month. Unfortunately it is not a solution for all people but at least for the rich.

COP-15: Mass Arrests During Global Day of Action (12 ...

COP-15 Copenhagen

12 Dec - Global Day of Action. Police quickly intercepted part of the march, mass arresting an estimated 200-300 people in Amagerbrogade

Cop15 - 12/12/09 Mass arrests in Copenhagen. An inside view.

12/12/09 Police broke the demonstration against the cop 15 in Copenhagen with riot vans during the protest. Alomst 400 people were blocked inside the trap. Police forced the people to sit down in the middle of the street. Then they were taken away handcuffed and put on to buses.

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Hoon Yoon our visionOntv Cartoonist

Photo by Rino Pucci

Monday, December 07, 2009

A diffrent point of view 'Denialism'



Author and journalist Michael Specter believes that public fear and skepticism of technological developments -- from vaccines to genetically modified foods to synthetic biology -- threaten to undermine scientific progress.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

LIVE UPDATES FROM THE WAVE

LIVE UPDATES FROM THE WAVE

Remember to use some tags #thewave #copout #cop15 #climatejustice when posting on social media

Brought to you by IMC London, visionontv and climatecamp


For more updates on The Wave demonstration and COP Out Camp Out see the IMC London Timeline See also Liveblog | Twitter Tag search | Twitters: climatecampldn | copoutcampout

Farmers head for COP15

And demand meaningful action on climate change. Producer: Sandra de Andrade. Another film from the VOTV video citizen journalism training workshop. http://visionon.tv

The Wave - Placard Factory

Organising for the Wave demo in London

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Eric Idle - Fuck Christmas