UK Indymedia - UK Technology Newswire Archive

[VIDEO] Anarchists occupy SIEMENS headquarters in Athens, Greece

13-05-2015 06:38

In the afternoon on May 11, 2015 anarchists and anti-authoritarians occupied for several hours the headquarters of multinational company Siemens in Athens, Greece in the context of Class War, asking for German and European workers solidarity in the fight against the Greek and European capitalist system.

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BarnCamp is on again - sign-up now open

08-05-2015 16:06

BarnCamp is a low-cost rural DIY skill-sharing event open to everyone, including UK activists, campaigners, people involved in social and community groups, and anybody else with an interest in technology and how to subvert it to put it to good use. This year it's running from 19th to 21st June.

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Supporting The Whistleblowers @OccupyDemocracy Protest at the Ecuadorian Embassy

05-04-2015 13:48

Attached is a audio recording of Eileen from Compassion in Care,

http://www.compassionincare.com/ and Nicola from Woman Against Rape,

http://www.womenagainstrape.net/ speaking at a Occupy Democracy protest held on 4th April 2015 in support of whistle blowers outside the Embassy of Ecuador, Knightbridge, London, where Wikileaks founder Assange WikiLeaks has been stuck for almost 3 years.

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Audio: 'Mass Surveillance, Liberty and Activism' with ORG Director Jim Killock

26-03-2015 00:40

The Open Rights Group's Executive Director Jim Killock gave a talk in Sheffield on 25th March 2015 at a ORG Sheffield meeting about mass surveillance, liberty and activism, attached is a recording of the talk and the Q and A with the audience.

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Curo Housing to monitor tenants using remote-controlled worker drones

05-03-2015 07:40

Curo, the not-for-profit housing & support organisation based in Bath, is becoming one of the first in the country to look at using drones as part of its tenant management tool kit.

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19-02-2015 13:06

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#702 - The Temptation of The Technofix 2 (Have We Got Too Much Technology?)

26-01-2015 11:32

We continue listening in on the October 2014 International Forum on Globalization conference "Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth". Seven speakers with contrasting styles and material manage to paint a pretty consistent picture of an economically justified technological development unhinged from our truly human values, one that is unsettling and depressing humans in ways beyond out conscious comprehension.

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SONY, Obama and Snowden What's been happening after Leveson on phone hacking?

10-01-2015 23:32

Are the Big Corporations being held to account? Are they still hacking the little people?

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An Open Letter To Russell Brand from the Silent Majority

12-12-2014 22:09

The Silent Majority reaches out to Russell Brand.

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John Pilger: War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda #LoganCIJ14

05-12-2014 18:51

Following is John Pilger’s address to the Logan Symposium, “Building an Alliance Against Secrecy, Surveillance & Censorship”, organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism, London, on 5th December, 2014

http://logancij.com/

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Audio from #ORGCon2014 - The UK's Digital Rights Conference

18-11-2014 01:38

Attached are recording from four of the sessions held at #ORGCon2014,

https://orgcon.openrightsgroup.org/2014/ on 15th November 2014.

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The Siege of Julian Assange is a Farce

17-11-2014 10:45

The siege of Knightsbridge is a farce. For two years, an exaggerated, costly police presence around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. Their quarry is an Australian charged with no crime, a refugee from gross injustice whose only security is the room given him by a brave South American country. His true crime is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.

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Facebook killed the internet star: reflections on radical media

30-10-2014 19:34

In September, the SchNEWS radical media collective issued a statement saying they had decided to call it a day. Although SchNEWS might publish one-off articles in the future, the direct action newsheet will no longer be published regularly.

This article is a personal reflection by a one-time SchNEWS contributor. It's not a statement from SchNEWS itself, neither is it attempting to be a full post-mortem of it. Rather it is highlighting some key areas which affected it and other radical media collectives...

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GEMS (Global Education Management Systems) links to RSA (Royal Society of Arts)

24-10-2014 12:55

GEMS (Global Education Management Systems) and its close ties to the RSA (Royal Society of Arts)

All links are at the end of the article.

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Implenting the eugenics (Nazi) 'Opening Minds' school curriculum globally

24-10-2014 01:41

How the new school curriculum goes global. Devised by the Royal Society of the Arts.

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War Against ISIS / Daesh : ColdHackers Hijack Turkish Regime FB Accounts

20-10-2014 03:00

Once again the comrades from revolutionary Kurdish hacking collective ColdHackers have gone into action and attacked the online presence of the murderous and cowardly Turkish regime in solidarity with their YPG / YPJ brothers & sisters who are fighting for Rojava and the total liberation of Kobane.

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Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

07-10-2014 22:07

On Friday 6th October 2014 Cory Doctorow addressed a packed meeting organised by the Open Rights Group Sheffield

https://sheffield.openrightsgroup.org/ in the Quaker Meeting House, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free.

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War against ISIS/Daesh: Anonymous Declares #OpKobane In Solidarity With Kobane

06-10-2014 11:52

In response to the call for international actions of solidarity with the brave
people of Kobane who are fighting both ISIS and the fascist Turkish military &
Turkish police who are helping & supporting ISIS we hereby declare the beginning of #OpKobane!!

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GMB serves ASBO on Amazon.co.uk over tax avoidance and poor treatment of staff

30-09-2014 11:15

So hostile are Amazon that union organisation is driven underground adopting the tactics of the French resistance or human rights campaigns in totalitarian regimes says GMB.

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squat!net downtime / hardware update

11-09-2014 09:16

Dear squat!net users,

Yesterday, Wednesday September 10th squat!net had a /planned/ downtime from approximately 12 AM until approximately 4 PM or earlier, which allowed us to install new hardware.