Proof that Mayday protesters were not workshy layabouts!
Realist | 16.05.2003 13:56
In an attempt to rubbish the Mayday protesters are workshy layabouts and useless unwashed hippies which many newspapers claimed they showed pictures of drunken scruffy yobs on Mayday snarling at the police. But this popular image is far from the reality of the average Mayday protester.
Here is the online CV of one of the protesters. It demolishes the stereotype put out by the mainstream press and media:
My work:
Creative director/designer:
Creating websites from concept through to planning, design, implementation and promotion. Clients include the BBC, British Council, Zoggle (NYC), TFiFriday, Virgin Radio, Direct Connection, Capital Radio, NCR, XFM Radio, Zenith Films, YouthNet and, of course, urban75. My current project for the British Council, Football Culture won Yahoo's Sports Site of the Year award
Internet consultant
Working on information architecture/user interface, planning and promotion. Worked with the BBC, British Council, firstlook (LA), Royal Society of Arts, IHaveMoved, 4i, Morgan Stanley, Clickmusic, theSite, etc.
Media
Presented BBC web education programs (Learning Zone, Click Online) and am regular on Radio/TV, talking about web-related matters. Occasional lecturer at Brighton and Southbank Universities.
Judged several international design awards including BBC2, London International Advertising Awards and D&AD. Guest speaker at Royal Society of Art, Association of International Broadcasters, ICA, Institute of Ideas and Ananova Alert (with Will Self).
Writing
I write for the UK's biggest Net magazine, Internet Magazine (as their resident 'Web Expert' and software reviewer) and have contributed to mainstream publications such as the New Statesman, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Independent.
My first book, 'Max Hits: building and promoting successful websites' was published by RotoVision in January 2002, with Design Week describing it as 'delivering its message in one of the most stylish, accessible and no-nonsense ways they'd yet seen'.
My work:
Creative director/designer:
Creating websites from concept through to planning, design, implementation and promotion. Clients include the BBC, British Council, Zoggle (NYC), TFiFriday, Virgin Radio, Direct Connection, Capital Radio, NCR, XFM Radio, Zenith Films, YouthNet and, of course, urban75. My current project for the British Council, Football Culture won Yahoo's Sports Site of the Year award
Internet consultant
Working on information architecture/user interface, planning and promotion. Worked with the BBC, British Council, firstlook (LA), Royal Society of Arts, IHaveMoved, 4i, Morgan Stanley, Clickmusic, theSite, etc.
Media
Presented BBC web education programs (Learning Zone, Click Online) and am regular on Radio/TV, talking about web-related matters. Occasional lecturer at Brighton and Southbank Universities.
Judged several international design awards including BBC2, London International Advertising Awards and D&AD. Guest speaker at Royal Society of Art, Association of International Broadcasters, ICA, Institute of Ideas and Ananova Alert (with Will Self).
Writing
I write for the UK's biggest Net magazine, Internet Magazine (as their resident 'Web Expert' and software reviewer) and have contributed to mainstream publications such as the New Statesman, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Independent.
My first book, 'Max Hits: building and promoting successful websites' was published by RotoVision in January 2002, with Design Week describing it as 'delivering its message in one of the most stylish, accessible and no-nonsense ways they'd yet seen'.
Realist
Homepage:
http://www.urban75.net/intro1.html
Comments
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Me Too...
16.05.2003 14:14
'Generalisations are not generally true'
Prajna Pranab
e-mail:
prajna@warcrimes.org.uk
So?
16.05.2003 15:52
You've done some decent jobs, live a worthy life.
I don't mean to cause offence, but who gives a fuck?
have i missed something
Bloody Students!
16.05.2003 22:35
The only people who believe the talk about the 'great unwashed' (perpetrated by the media) are those who have no hope and are envious of those who do - our job must be to inspire these people if possible and create a new world right in front of their eyes!
Krop
Shit off the street
17.05.2003 10:50
or will all the people who are used to learning under restrictions continue to walk where there told too.
ust ice
diversity not elitism
17.05.2003 11:50
listing your qualifications and achievements like that is not helpful and could easily be seen as intimidating and elitist.
what we've got to remember is that in a united movement, a diverse celebration like Mayday is supposed to be, our background shouldn't matter. Our status is created by a capitalist society, which is what we're supposed to be fighting against, and hopefully replacing by a society in which there are no such inequalities of status.
protest should include everyone,and I think it would possibly be more alienating and offputting to many people if our movement was seen as being composed of intellectuals: the struggle against capitalism could be seen in much the same light as the irrelevancies which go on at Westminster.
in my opinion, the way to encourage people to rise from their apathetic political slumber is to be creative, inventive, colourful, diverse: to act against the homogenisation of our culture fed us by capitalism
hastalavictoriasiempre
FUCK OFF !
17.05.2003 12:48
STATE HATER
STATE HATER = a ranting red lunatic
17.05.2003 17:22
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