NoBorder Webcast Reports featured on PirateTV
Pirate TV | 07.07.2001 23:46
Simultaneous webcasts from border camps in Poland, Slovenia, England and Tarifa,Spain, for noborder.org, broadcast last saturday night will be repeated on tuesdays by Undercurrents on Piratetv for the next few weeks.
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...
ionnek
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...
ionnek
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CORPORATE P.R. AT WORK
09.07.2001 09:28
agenda.
You want no national borders? You want no nation states?
Then you should apply to a corporate institution for a
grant, because that is exactly what the corporate network
wants.
This is nuts. I hope users of this site can see through
such an obvious scam.
john the carpenter
no borders
10.07.2001 12:43
A lot of people that otherwise have on the ball opinions can't understand the advantages of no borders.
The idea is that if you have international movement of resources and money and that kind of thing which you point out are being exploited by Transnation companies, then you need to have completely free movement of people.
If you don't then all the resources end up in one part of the world and there a wall around that part with a big queue of people waiting to get in and getting angrier and angrier.
It is a tricky one however, if you have anything to do with property, like own a house or anything then obviously you're going to get a bit threatened by the concept.
mick
Homepage: http://www.operationalchemy.org