On the Right to Demonstrate.
A look at our right to demonstrate, the importance of dissenting voices and the cornered animal of the government attacks.Reality Celebrities?
the article is a light hearted look at the new phenomenon of internet celebrities, people who have become famous through mediums such as You Tube etcStirling Primark receives a story telling
Activists from Stirling People and Planet decided that the children being dragged round the Primark store by their parents needed to know the truth about where the cotton for their clothes came from.Free Protest Music & the Music Business
David Rovics, Attila the Stockbroker and Tracey Curtis are currently touring the UK in what is probably the best protest tour since the miner's strike. On Thursday the 11th they play Bannerman's in Edinburgh at 8pm for £6. Earlier on at 4pm, they play a shorter free set in Edinburgh at the FREAK / TAA event in Edinburgh. Combining free and paid gigs with free and paid downloads they are helping to cut the music free from the business.Edinburgh Temporary Autonomous Arts Exhibition
FREAK, the Free and Reactive Edinburgh Arts Kollective, are transforming a derelict warehouse in Granton into an arts venue for a four day event from the 10th to the 14th of October. There will be art exhibitions, live music, performances, films and educational workshops."Slave Trade? Wasnae Us!"
As part of Glasgow's Doors Open day and a curtain-raiser to October's Black History Month events, speakers and musicians gathered at St Andrews in the Square to commemorate 200 years since the Abolition of Slavery Act.Halo-8 Letting Animals Out of Their Cages
Controversial feature film Your Mommy Kills Animals get worldwide distributionThe United(?) Kingdom.....
In the current climate of agitation on both sides of the English/Scottish border what are our options and expectation for the United Kingdom?.....Seed Bombing with All Tomorrow's Particks - Glasgow
Come and build your own seed bomb and catapult it into the proposed Tesco site. We provide the seeds, the soil and the clay while you provide the imagination to turn Partick into what you would like it to be.The gentrification of free festivals
It is spring equinox, the moon is bright. I had sweet-talked some sweet foreigners into attending the Beltane festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh tonight. It used to be a great festival, music, fire, dance. I've been about 5 times over it's 20 year history, but I've been busy with war stuff for the past 3 years. I did go the year it was 'banned' ( http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/05/66387.html ) and I was one of the people who ignored the council bouncers and took down the barriers. I've done other stuff to help out too, and when they started asking for donations, I was happy to donate.Police charge cyclists at Glasgow Critical Mass
Last night the police committed a surprising u-turn in their approach to dealing with Glasgow Critical Mass. The Mass has previously been accompanied by cycle officers "to ensure the safety of the cyclists" however there has been no police presence since last September. This changed dramatically with the April Critical Mass;The Copy/South Reader Response Project vs. WIPO's IP Day
To mark World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), the Copy/SouthResearch Group calls on you to take up its slogan --'Encouraging
Creativity'-- and send in your creative thoughts and opinions on the
role of copyright law and ideology in the countries of the global South.
"nu-trident": REMEMBER, IT AINT THE "PRINCIPLE"- or the cost, ITS THE STUPIDITY.
A half page spin-defuse to forward to your MPs REALLY, QUITE FAST . . . .THE GIST. But from ***(*).
remember MLK day, etc
numerous events happening, includes afternoon do at the friends meeting house, euston rd, 4pm saturday.despite seeming incorporation into media "sainthood", plenty is in the actual history to cause new thinking - so - in the spirit of the "remember the eleventh" campaign - 2 extra facts to remember . . . .
We'll keep a welcome in the hillsides
we'll keep a welcome in the vales,this land of song will keep on fighting,
'till LNG gets out of Wales.
Daughters of Rebecca at Faslane
Welsh activists took part in the Faslane 365 blockade between Monday and Wednesday this week.An open letter to motorists who dislike cyclists.
Thank you for all the little ways that you cooperate."HASBARA" CYBERWAR:CALL TO 100 000 ZIONISTS
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A ISRAELI PROGRAM TO POLLUTE THE INTERNET WITH ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
JULY 22 : A call to 100 000Jews IN THE WORLD
Israel's Foreign Ministry provides Free Internet Tool to online activists
(Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada, 26 July 2006)
Screen image of the giyus.org website from which the Megaphone desktop tool can be downloaded.
The following letter was sent by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a variety of pro-Israel organisations, so-called 'hasbara'-groups and other supporters of Israel.
Dear friends,
Many of us recognize the importance of the Internet as the new battleground for Israel's image. It's time to do it better, and coordinate our on-line efforts on behalf of Israel. An Israeli software company have developed a free, safe and useful tool for us - the Internet Megaphone.
Please go to www.giyus.org, download the Megaphone, and you will receive daily updates with instant links to important internet polls, problematic articles that require a talk back, etc.
We need 100,000 Megaphone users to make a difference. So, please distribute this mail to all Israel's supporters.
Do it now. For Israel.
Amir Gissin
Director Public Affairs (Hasbara) Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs understands that today's conflicts are won by public opinion. They mobilize pro-Israel activists to be active and voice "Israel's side to the world." The Megaphone desktop tool, built by Giyus, which means "mobilization", sends desktop alerts on key articles on Israel and surveys, online polls where activists could click on the button to support Israel and click alerts to easily voice pro-Israel opinions.
The tool tracks down online articles and polls that members should act upon. After installing the tool, members receive alerts on those articles. With this tool Israel's Foreign Ministry obviously thought it would help Israel's fight in cyberspace. However, having used this tool, for others, it is quit useful as well. There is also a weblog and a forum.
To download Megaphone Desktop Tool click here [*.exe file for Windows].
For non Windows users and others who would like to to track the alerts being posted via RSS or the Web, visit this page.
Amir Gissin's letter was posted on July 22 on the website of www.standwithus.com -- an pro-Israel advocacy organization.
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