Stuff tagged activism
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2012 Bradford Hacktionlab Gathering Drupal Session
This year’s winter hacktionlab happened at Bradford’s lovely 1 in 12 Club. Here is my notes/writeup of the Saturday morning Drupal session.
Saturday Morning Drupal Clinic Read More …- 2012-01-21T15:45:50Z
- Published: 15:45:50 on Saturday, 21 January
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Lessons from Community Webhosting in Oxford: ox4.org
Back in 2008 me and my pal Penguin decided that it would be fun to have a webserver to play with. Nowadays, it doesn't cost much to have a virtual server with awesome hosts like Bytemark. But it still costs. Plus we wanted to provide a bit of a community activist resource. So, we figured that the best thing to do would be to share our server and use it as a resource for activism in Oxford. Well, we did that and now we're running a small scale activist orientated webhost, ox4.org — it's our postcode. We've learned some lessons along the way, and we carry on learning as we go. Read More …
- 2011-07-15T07:56:18Z
- Published: 07:56:18 on Friday, 15 July
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Cidered up techs in a field? Must be BarnCamp 2011!
This post is a slightly edited version of the BarnCamp 2011 blog post, which appeared on New Internationalist's tech blog. Read More …
- 2011-06-03T12:35:21Z
- Published: 12:35:21 on Friday, 3 June
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Sack Boris 2012: Ruling class flim-flam-nonsense maker
I was chuffed to learn that the folks at Common People had been able to use the code I wrote for the What will George Osborne Cut Next random cut generator into a Boris Johnson flim-flam answer generator. You ask Boris a question and he talks errant ruling class nonsense. Just like the real thing! Read More …
- 2011-05-03T21:20:07Z
- Published: 21:20:07 on Tuesday, 3 May
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What Will George Osborne Cut Next?
Here's a cool project. Helping the lovely folks at No Shock Doctrine For Britain to build a random George Osborne "cut generator", called What Will George Cut Today? to highlight the absurdity of the new UK Chancellor's unjust and unnecessary budget cuts.Read More …
- 2011-04-27T17:01:06Z
- Published: 17:01:06 on Wednesday, 27 April
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Anti-cuts video from the grassroots
The visionOntv are providing these grassroots anti-cuts videos in advance of the 26 March demo. Nice one.
All the best anti-cuts videos Loading grassroots uncut video feed … Read More …- 2011-04-27T15:35:50Z
- Published: 15:35:50 on Wednesday, 27 April
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Video: Richard Stallman - A Free Digital Society
Richard Stallman is something of a legend. He singlehandedly launched the Free Software movement, and the GNU project and has been campaigning for software freedom for almost as long as there have been usable home computers. I jumped at the opportunity to see him talk at the Institution of Engineering and Technology. His topic was "A Free Digital Society", and he spoke on the various problems — nonfree software, software as a service, invasion of privacy, and such — that are often ignored by the discourse of digital inclusion. Read More …
- 2011-03-14T14:31:00Z
- Published: 14:31:00 on Monday, 14 March
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January 2011 Reading
This is a frankly awesome critique of the (mid-90s) left's 'master' narritive of totalised global capitalism. The books central insights are gleaned from feminism and are all about the possibility of imagining non-capitalist economies and acknowledging that those economies actually exist alongside and inside global capitalism. Like a sort of Judith Butler for Marxian political economists.
2011-01-29 by Charlie Harvey
The Situationists and The City, Ed Tom McDonough Read More …- 2011-02-25T22:16:20Z
- Published: 22:16:20 on Friday, 25 February
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February 2011 Reading
Turing's 1936 paper on Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem is something of a geek classic, introducing important concepts like the Universal Turing Machine. I'm no mathemetician even though I readily admit to being a bit of a geek. So its great to have a writer like Petzold to hold my hand. Petzold adds the context, both mathematical and biographical as well as guiding you through the paper gently but without being patronizing. Funnily enough I started reading this on 24 Feb, the day before Bletchley Park announced they had bought Turing's papers. Bit of a coincidence that.
2011-02-25 by Charlie Harvey
The American Future, Simon Schama Read More …- 2011-02-25T22:07:13Z
- Published: 22:07:13 on Friday, 25 February
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Tech Tools For Activists Booklet
Note: This article originally appeared on the New Internationalist Tech Blog and is reused under a Creative Commons Licence Read More …
- 2011-02-16T15:56:15Z
- Published: 15:56:15 on Wednesday, 16 February
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Climate Change
Climate change is real. Human beings are contributing to it. It is killing 150,000 people a year. These are poor people in poor countries. They produce far fewer emissions than rich people in rich countries but suffer the worst effects of climate change. This is a class issue, a power issue, a justice issue and a racism issue.Read More …
- 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Published: 00:00:00 on Sunday, 1 August
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BarnCamp 2010
BarnCamp 2010 was two days of workshops on topics ranging from renewable energy to foraging for food to citizen journalism to using free software for activism, three nights of camping, open space sessions, evening entertainment, great food at Highbury Farm, a beautiful farm co-op high in the Wye Valley.
Personal highlights Sunshine Meeting the other ciderpunk Learning how to be a citizen journalist Learning that Cornish folks come North in the Summertime for direct action and riots Drinking ace cider Nicest train conductor ever The nerd block -- for people going off on a geek rant that no-one else can understand The Linux Lord's Prayer Read More …- 2010-05-01T22:23:18Z
- Published: 22:23:18 on Saturday, 1 May
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