Bakesale update: We made 373 dollars at the Last Thursday Bake sale. Woohoo! On to Detroit… Members of the Cascadia Freedom Caravan are hosting a BAKE BLOCK to raise money for the Caravan tomorrow at Last Thursday on Alberta Street during the monthly Art Walk event. The group will be staked out on the corner of Alberta and 21st and will be hosting a Full Moon afterparty at 4810 NE Garfield. Live bands, political remix video projections by B Media, [...]
Coldcut vs. TV Sherrif– Revolution ’08. “Political Remix Video (PRV) is a genre of transformative guerilla media production whereby creators critique power structures, deconstruct social myths and challenge dominate media messages through re-cutting and re-framing fragments of mainstream media and the popular culture.” –http://www.politicalremixvideo.com/what-is-political-remix/ Gender: By: Elisa Kreisinger of Politicalremixvideo.com Politics: By: The Black Lantern Exposure By: Yes Men– and identity correction in response to Dow’s “human element” white/greenwash . SUBMEDIA—–>pushing the package of critical culture. FAIR USE– What is it? [...]
B Media hooked up with Paulie Think, Nuestro, and The Dapper Cadavers to host a fundraiser/film screening/live music event for the Olympia 29 at the Red and Black hosted by Oregon Jericho on Saturday, May 22. Jeff Free spoke at the event in solidarity with the cause. The Olympia 29 were arrested during an anti-police brutality march in Olympia, Washington last April. For more information on the charges and the demands of the defendents, click here.
May 25, 2010 Cross-border call for Collaboration A delegation of Venezuelan media activists from ANMCLA (National Association of Independent and Alternative Community Media) are hoping to take part in the Allied Media Conference this summer in Detroit, Michigan from June 18-20. The group includes members of the indigenous Wayuu resisting coal miner exploitation in Zulia, the video collectives Calles y Media of “Venezuela Bolivariana” and Voces Urgente in Lara, active participants in the construction of the Ataro comuna, and Radio [...]
Join print, radio and video cooperatives and activists from around Portland this TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY in two full days of free workshops and teach-ins on community media. The goal is to foster discussion on the role of media in community development in Portland, and how we can better stand in solidarity with the communities we want to serve locally, nationally and internationally. Check out the full Roots of Radical Media Program Download and print the poster below (right click and save [...]
Jyri Antero Jaakkola (February 11, 1977 – April 27, 2010 Oaxaca, Mexico) was a Finnish human-rights activist. He was on his way to San Juan Copala, a village of Trique indigenous people that has declared itself autonomous, as a human-rights observer when he was shot dead by UBISORT, a paramilitary organization connected to Institutional Revolutionary Party. In the attack died also Alberta Cariño, an activist for the local organization CACTUS, and more than ten people were wounded.
Mix Masher Stim gives his world round up of news and a great 101 on Colonization WORD.
The first PMA happened in Portland this past weekend. The assembly was a response to a call from organizers of the USSF for local social justice groups to form local working circles. For the first attempt at a new form of colalborative organizing in Portland, the assembly was a success in the mere fact that it happened. Two resolutions were passed. The group of 28 organizations agreed to meet again, after an evaluation of form for the next meeting, and [...]
Right 2 Survive, their friends and allies, gather at Washington High School, an abandoned property, in a festive show of resistance!
School buses, open roads, mass convergence, the People, allies, Venezuelan friends –> one event
