Just to tell you how this mini-video was made: Sme people from the european noborder network came up with the idea to connect four bordercamps through a webstream. Lots of emails and phonecalls were exchanged, new people joined the project. As a result, this Saturday, a whole bunch of web- and other activists worked together: in Tarifa, Spain, in Poland, Slovenia and Campsfield, UK, activities and interviews were filmed, and sent to a server in Berlin, Germany, mixed and streamed onto peoples desktops. In the UK, undercurrents, pirate tv and indymedia were busy editing and uploading stuff, and pirate TV decided to repeat the stream every tuesday for a few weeks.
This feels like a real "direct media" project - a connection between activism at the places where the border regime strikes and the process of reporting. A connection between the work and protest and party in the bordercamps and the process of making all this information and atmosphere available.
So this is an invitation to turn the rather dull activity to watch some mini-video on a desktop (bad quality, and often rather lonely) into a collective thing: for video-and streaming parties that turn virtual reality into real interaction.
The border regime is everywhere, around and within Europe, at the outside borders and the internal ones - but so are we...

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