Episode 103 of Dissident Island Radio features:



- Our friend Carl live in the studio giving an insider's perspective on prisoner solidarity. He gives some nice ideas on how to offer support and what to say in those all important letters.



- People from SQUASH and the ASS talking about the future of squatting in England and Wales post Clause 145, and what's going to change once the ban comes into effe…

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I you think you're not technical enough to understand some of the debate on distributed social networks as opposed to centralised ones (like this one) check out this comic animation. It tries to explain the differences and the problems of centralised corporate services in plain English.

The disproportionate response to hacking protests means we are in danger of leaving our future leaders behind bars

James Ball

In March this year, more than 150 UK activists were arrested while occupying Fortnum & Mason in a protest against tax avoidance. They were held in cells overnight and charged with aggravated trespass. Earlier this month, the charges against all but 30 were dropped, as i…

In February the Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason very succinctly laid out the radically different nature of recent popular uprisings across North Africa, the Middle East and Europe compared to earlier political movements, and the economic and sociological reasons behind it. This incisive blogpost rang true for many of those involved in those social movements, articulating, as it did, a new se…

Every year a bunch of geeks travel to the lovely Wye Valley from all over UK, and trudge up the 80 meter climb to Highbury Farm. There they camp out for a long weekend, running workshops and presentations during the day and sitting around the fire drinking cider at night, or enjoying the eclectic Raveoke and accoustic sets on the open stage. The whole set up is called BarnCamp, the main worksh…

You find it where it always was, it looks the same and uses the name, but it no longer is Indymedia UK.



On 1st May 2011, Indymedia UK had it's name and URL taken over by a number of volunteers calling themselves the ‘Mayday collective’. Although the site looks and feels like Indymedia UK, it is no longer the same project. It is now under the sole control of a faction of Indymedia UK admins. T…

From Indymedia to Wikileaks: What a decade of hacking journalistic culture says about the future of news

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The first time I ever heard the words “mirror website,” I was sitting at a debris-strewn desk, hunched over a desktop computer, on the second floor of a nondescript office building on East 29th in Manhattan. I’d recently started volunteering with the New York City Independent M…

We meet at the Royal Festival Hall. The meeting is migratory, we sit where we find a free table, so make sure to get in touch at our contact email or on our public mailing list, otherwise you might not find us!

We meet at the Royal Festival Hall. The meeting is migratory, we sit where we find a free table, so make sure to get in touch at our contact email or on our public mailing list, otherwise you might not find us!

 

We meet at the Royal Festival Hall. The meeting is migratory, we sit where we find a free table, so make sure to get in touch at our contact email or on our public mailing list, otherwise you might not find us!

We meet at the Royal Festival Hall. The meeting is migratory, we sit where we find a free table, so make sure to get in touch at our contact email or on our public mailing list, otherwise you might not find us!

We meet at the Royal Festival Hall. The meeting is migratory, we sit where we find a free table, so make sure to get in touch at our contact email or on our public mailing list, otherwise you might not find us!

There's some interesting stuff in the article (link below), though they don't even mention the fact that Sukey are the first people, after Aaron Porter, who are trying to divide the protests into 'legitimate' peaceful protesters and 'evil rioters'. Maybe they should rename their tool into 'Sucky'.

(apropos privacy, that article is on a yahoo hosted blog...)

 

Sukey - peaceful protest App w…

Using a VPN can protect you internet traffic from trivial surveillance by ISP's and the state. More info at https://en.wiki.aktivix.org/Aktivix:VPN

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at usi…

On today, May 31, 2010, over 25,000 people have pledged to quit Facebook. But where will they go to? What are your options for social interaction online? An "unofficial blog about the diaspora project" published a table of options, including brand new inventions. Interestingly, we.riseup.net is not included in the list.

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It is now almost five years since Indymedia London came to life as part of the United Kollectives network of IMC's throughout the UK. Now, in 2008, things have moved on; the reality in the streets is very different from that of 2003, and so there has also been a change in the way people experience the internet. The kollective in London has been working hard for the last few months to ad…