Journal
Planning another arizona border trip in april ...
Please email info@resistnetwork.com if you think you might be able to help us with our research.
15 new research interviews about the US / Mexico border wall uploaded
at http://www.youtube.com/resistnetwork#g/u
Currently planning a trip to the USA / Mexico border
We are currently planning an October trip to the border between Mexico and America in the Tucson, Nogales and Tijuana areas. Please do get in touch if you have any tips or advice!
In conversation with Howard Rheingold & Jeff Saperstein
scroll down the left hand column here ...
http://www.resistnetwork.com/research/interviews
discussing borders, new media and power structures.
New Communication Technology and Social Change lecture at Saybrook
On June 13th Resist will be joining a discussion at Saybrook
‘New media technologies and strategies are transforming the nature and potential of social activism—from their novel use in the Obama campaign and administration, and in nonprofit organizations, to their deployment by social movements such as the “Twitter Revolution” in Moldova. In this seminar, we will reflect upon these changes, learn some of the skills necessary to utilize these technologies and strategies effectively, critically assess the comparative strengths, weaknesses, and social implications of newer and traditional forms of social change, and consider the impact of the emergence of such technologies on our educational, research, and activist work at Saybrook’.
Resist at the G20 London protests
follow the Guardian’s news blog here http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/mar/31/g20-summit-protests
Resist at a We20 meeting
This year, the leaders of the G20 countries
are making a plan to fix the economic crisis.
we20 helps you meet, in groups of up to 20 people,
to make your own plan. This year, anything can change. http://www.we20.org
Who’s coming to the meeting we’re attending?
Alnoor Ladha - Mother
Alnoor is a senior strategist at Mother Advertising Agency, and is currently developing a new arm of the business which relates very strongly to this we20! (That’s all we can say right now.)
Dan Biddle - Development Advisor in BBC Multiplatform
Dan’s main project is producing the social media elements of multiplatform open source documentary Digital Revolution. A BBC Two and online documentary about the web made by collaborating with…
Resist at South by South West, Austin, Texas
Jess and Lina who curate our Social Change page will be at the SXSW festival this year.
http://sxsw.com/interactive
http://sxsw.com/film
If you would like to discuss Resist with them in person, you can find them via twitter -
http://twitter.com/germination
http://twitter.com/lksriv
The big paradox of our times - humanity has never been so divided by so many inequalities, and yet so aware of its unity.
Some notes by Marc Auge from the exhibition ‘Native Land Stop Eject’ in Paris.
http://fondation.cartier.com/
‘For climatic reasons, for economic reasons, because of decolonisation, and because of tourism, people are moving. That leads to problems in terms of borders and the construction of walls. There are walls everywhere - between Mexico and America, Cuetta in Morocco, Israel and Palestine ... and across cities. Even in Padua, Italy, there is fencing to isolate the Gypsy neighbourhood. They are outfitted with complex systems that include ditches, trenches, barbed wire, electric wiring, electronic fences, concrete walls, around-the-clock security agents and surveillance vehicles that patrol the area beyond the walls ...
These people are connected because they are fleeing poverty, famine, tyranny, the violence…
Marc, director of Resist, visited Iceland last week.
This is a great article by Rebecca Solnit about the economic crisis in Iceland ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-solnit/the-icelandic-volcano-eru_b_165723.html
and this site ...
http://nattura.info/
which is a space for a renewal in discussion and debate on Icelandic resources; a desire for bridges between different spheres of knowledge, news, composition and productive ideas on self-sustainable evolution, on cluster of start-up companies and ways other than heavy industry