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Neighbourhood Destroyed by Gentrification

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:11:21 PST

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Barcelona, Catalonia Gentrification is accelerating all over the world Here in Barceloneta a once strong community is being transformed. We produced a map to show what used to be here. The erased geography is a door that reminds us of the despoiled spaces of la Barceloneta. http://geografiaesborrada.info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification http://visionon.tv

Voices from Yarl's Wood - update 1

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:52:14 PST

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hunger strike or no hunger strike? What has been driving detainees at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre to refuse food since February 5th? Can we trust the UK Border Agency aka The Home Office to report accurately on the situation there? We phone the detainees to find out.

What we think of the torys

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:53:54 PST

Augmented (hyper)Reality

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:55:28 PST

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.

Guns 'n Gardens - How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:28:59 PST

Increasing a popular subject.

Assassins Caught on Dubai Surveillance Tape

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:54:54 PST

Dubai authorities have released extensive footage from surveillance cameras that allegedly shows the movements of a professional 11-person assassination team in the hours before and after a top Hamas leader was killed last month in a hotel room.

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/alleged-assassins-caught-on-tape#ixzz0g1Nz1mTh

Olympic Resistance Weekend Roundup

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:57:15 PST

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Vancouver Media Coop's excellent review of protest on the first weekend of the Winter Olympics. http://vancouver.media.coop.ca http://visionon.tv

Yarl's Wood hunger strike

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:41:09 PST

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5/2/10 84 women start a hunger strike in Yarl's Wood Immigration Detention Centre. 4 of them now are kept in jail. 17/2/10 demo to demand their release beetwen 6.30-7.30pm OUTSIDE HOLLOWAY PRISON, Parkhurst Road, London. http://visionon.tv http://noborders.org.uk

Promoting the Olympics - what the IOC didn't want you to see

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:16:25 PST

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The Vancouver Olympics Committee has withdrawn its own promotional video for the torch relay, after complaints about the use of images from the Berlin "Nazi" Games of 1936. Here is an alternative version they could have used..... http://visionon.tv http://no2010.com

Thought this was funny

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:31:25 PST

From "The Jaded Reviews Guide to Hippy Watching in North America"

Astrology - A convenient system to shift responsibility for peoples fucked up choices

Chakras out of Alignment - I'm fucked up and looking for things to blame it on

Cleansing - One of the most important steps in becoming condescending towards average people

Dreamspell - A complete bastardization of an ancient wisdom which gave rise to yet another useless method of bullshit divination

Ecstatic Dance - Flailing around arhythmically

Enlightened - Does not in anyway challenge your narrow view of the world

Facilitate - Allow others to do

Festival - A party. Usually dressed up to have some kind of sociopolitical or spiritual significance. This of course has little impact on the number of bad trips, fights, and misuse of the land that takes place. Often doesn't change anything but empowers revellers to believe that it has.

Goddess Worship - fucking, ogling or stalking goddesses.

Healing - An adjective to make anything seem more profound than it really is.

Higher Purpose - Unemployment

Jah Bless - If you are a white rasta the only time you should say "Jah Bless" is when someone asks your occupation

Invoke - To shamelessly beg powers beyond your comprehension to do something

Intergalactic - Taking place within the confines of industrialized western society

Light Being - The person you wish you could be but will never have the discipline to actually become

Light Warrior - A particularly popular hippie

Manifest - How the enlightened scrounge from their friends

Massage Therapy - The best option for income without higher education

Mercury in Retrograde - Why you called your girlfriend a bitch last night

Presence - Will stare you in the eye for hours and touch you too often

Open Minded - Not able to entertain any opposing viewpoints

Open Relationship - A fuck-buddy situation for anyone too selfish or immature for a real relationship. Sometimes used to end relationships.

Saturn Return - The depression that comes in your late 20's when you realize your life is going nowhere and you still don't have any money

Shakti Energy - Horny

Spiritual Guide - Middle aged man who parlays his menial understanding of any unfounded new age spiritual practice to allow maximum opening of the sacral chakra of young hippy women.

Soulmate - I'll be single again in 4 months

Shaman - I do drugs

Teachers - People whom you emulate without going through the necessary life experiences to truly embody

Trade - My talents aren't good enough to make enough money to actually pay you

Worshipping the Goddess - Fucking

Unconditional Love - Open affection for anyone within your close knit group of like-minded and similarly-dressed friends (maybe the most profoundly sad euphamism of all)

Universal Love - What you feel when you're constantly stoned

Universal Truths - The narrow set of beliefs held by your circle of friends (the second most profoundly sad euphamism)

Visionary - Drug-Induced

Visionary Art - Lots of pretentious descriptions of art that looked better when you were high

Tax Rates

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:14:44 PST

The film that helped the Climate protesters win a historic High Court victory

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:43:02 PST

Activists win against unlawful police stop and search operation in Kingsnorth, Kent -the largest and most expensive such operation in UK history involving 26 police forces.

From the film page:

The harassment and exclusion of legal observers, the violent arrest of women refusing to be searched, the aggressive interrogation of local residents, the threatening of journalists with arrest for doing their job, the confiscation of 100s of items such as childrens' costumes and crayons, attempted dawn raids on the camp, the use of batons and CS gas against peaceful protesters, and the forced search of 1000s of people and the adding of their personal data to a secret database. This type of political policing has to stop, and the right to legitimate protest re-established.

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News templates

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:43:11 PST

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:01:11 PST

I'm a photographer not a terrorist

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:59:39 PST

Snappers gather at Trafalgar Square to protest against the injustice of being banned from taking pictures in public spaces.
Find out more:
http://photographersvsterrorists.wordpress.com
http://photographernotaterrorist.org

Democracy Now!

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:48:51 PST

Democracy Now has a nice piece on why such production/networking/alt-media structures as the http://visionOntv project are so important. Jump-to 33 min for good bit.

Admin Mourning

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:25:56 PST

Hoons Cartoon - for the winter

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:03:56 PST

The pixis have been out

noreply@blogger.com (visionontv) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:05:41 PST

Marc Reeves - Does Business News No Longer Make for a Good Business

noreply@blogger.com (hamish) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:39:25 PST

Was saying all this 3 years ago, interesting to see the mainstream saying it now - but they still haven't excepted the scale of the changes. Still they base there models on advertising, were advertising is false information in the social media age and thus has much less value/income than they expect.

The University of Warwick recently hosted a debate between four leading media figures about their hopes and fears for the future of business media.

CBI Head and former Financial Times Editor Richard Lambert; BBC Media Correspondent Torin Douglas (Chair); Marc Reeves, the Editor of the Birmingham Post and David Arnott, Associate Professor of Marketing and e-business at Warwick Business School examined these issues with an audience of opinion formers and business leaders from across the Midlands.

Mobile Report - visionontv office

noreply@blogger.com (hamish) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:44:06 PST

Trying out the mobile phone report template... what do you think?

Video Israel Doesn't Want You to See

noreply@blogger.com (hamish) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:46:07 PST

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

noreply@blogger.com (hamish) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:37:05 PST

>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

noreply@blogger.com (hamish) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:48:15 PST

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

Viva Palestina convoy reaches Syria

noreply@blogger.com (hamish) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:56:21 PST

Viva Palestina Convoy Arrived In Syria