Activism - United Diversity

Josef's Journey to John O'Groats

Since this journey has ended up being a major milestone in the development of United Diversity I though I had better re-post this write up I did for the Brake The Cycle blog here too. Enjoy! Last month I cycled about 1200 miles, from the south-easternmost tip of mainland England

Activism

Edible City - Grow the Revolution

Just came across this great film: > Edible City: Grow the Revolution [https://web.archive.org/web/20200116144032/http://www.ediblecitythemovie.com:80/] is a fun, fast-paced, feature-length documentary journey through the local Good Food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and

Activism

The Genius of #KONY2012 and why all NGOs should take note

Let me start with a disclaimer: I have not watched theKONY2012 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kony_2012] video. Just listening to it made me feel a bit uneasy (my fiancée watched on her laptop whilst we both worked at home sitting opposite each other at our dining table). I

Activism

Transition Tufnell Park

Transition Tufnell Park [https://transitiontufnellpark.org.uk/] (TTP) do the Big Dig Up! TPP, part of the wider Transition Network [https://www.transitionnetwork.org/], are one of the latest Transition initiatives in London [https://london-transition.org.uk/]. Read more of our posts about Transition [https://uniteddiversity.com/category/transition/] for

Activism

DeSchool, D-Skool, ReallyReally Freeschool

Just got this message from Persons Unknown January – February 2011 Fingers crossed Surrounded by institutions and universities, there is newly occupied space where education can be re-imagined. Amidst the rising fees and mounting pressure for ‘success’, we value knowledge in a different currency; one that everyone can afford to trade.

Activism

Coworking at The Clouds – An Invitation

Every Tuesday from 11am until about 4-5pm (sometime later – lots of good stuff happens here in the evenings too) United Diversity [https://uniteddiversity.com] and VisionOn.TV [https://visionon.tv/] will be hosting upstairs at Passing Clouds [http://web.archive.org/web/20161016212347/http://www.passingclouds.org/] (1 Richmond Road,

Activism

The London Orchard Project

I love this project. > “The London Orchard Project [https://thelondonorchardproject.org/] is a fresh initiative promoting orchards and fruit trees in London. We are working with Londoners to plant and harvest apple, pear and plum trees all over the city, and help us all to rediscover the pleasure of

Activism

The decentralisation of Pirate Bay filesharing

Following a suggestion by Rasmus Fleischer, a leading member of the Pirate Bureau, Torrentfreak concludes [https://torrentfreak.com/its-time-to-sink-the-pirate-bay-and-replace-it-090913/] : “The Pirate Bay will dissolve, but in its place many “new TPBs” will return, just without the familiar domain name and pirate ship logo. This is very similar to a concept

Activism

Supporting a local economy….some observations

Last night I attended a gathering of merchants, service providers and others who support local independent businesses in our town. It was a festive affair of about three dozen featuring a pot luck dinner, good conversation, and a few announcements about the emerging organization. From both a personal and professional

Activism

City Repair LA

[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OOlW-1cKA6k/Sq0uYsA6GoI/AAAAAAAACkg/uz-B0ftFvdg/s1600-h/mark.jpg] Mark Lakeman stares down the new Bimini Street salamander [https://monsters.monstrous.com/salamander.htm]. Portland architect and activist Mark Lakeman, founder of the City Repair [https://http//cityrepair.org/] movement, is in Los Angeles for a week

Activism

Collaboration for large groups

There is a dialogue taking place over on Transition Culture [https://transitionculture.org/2009/09/11/why-we-need-formal-agreements-for-national-transition-hubs/] , about how Transition hubs relate to the UK network which started this whole Transition idea. If an opportunity arose, to rewrite this MoU collaboratively, we would need a tool which can manage the

Accomplishments

Open Everything

Today, an Open Everything [https://creativecommons.at/salon/everything] event will take place at the Paraflows Festival [https://www.paraflows.at/index.php?id=124] in Vienna, Austria. Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation is the main speaker. Franz Nahrada [https://p2pfoundation.net/Nahrada,_Franz] and Ralf Schlatterbeck [https://blog.

Activism

Rural revolution in Colombia goes digital and p2p

“Latinamerica is particularly well equipped for these changes (peer production) by their cultural affinity with the values of P2P”, said Michel Bauwens on an interview [https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/16-15035-2009-08-23.html] for Pagina/12 the Argentinian journal. This statement seems to prove itself when one reads

Activism

Paris rooftops swarm with bees as urban honey industry takes off

Photo by Franco Zecchin. Paris, the urban beekeeper Jean Paucton removing frames from the hive atop the Opera Garnier. By Charles Bremner in Paris The Times August 18, 2009 Tourists are not the only species swarming on the Champs Élysées this August. Also enjoying the sunshine are squadrons of bees,

Activism

Squat Freeshop on Commercial Road

Swap shops, Freeshops, give away shops, they all aim to go against the capitalist framework, and often people can’t quite get their heads around the idea, that, yes it is free and you can take it! Illustrations by Thereza Rowe [https://www.therezarowe.com/] When I dropped by the

Activism

Topshop Swap Shop

We’ve got Swaporamarama [https://www.swaporamarama.org/] and Swishing [https://www.swishing.org/] and now, the Topshop Swap Shop… [https://uniteddiversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/poster.jpg]Topshop Swap Shop Just in from the inimitable Space Hijackers [https://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/]: Ladies and Gentlemen we are proud

Activism

Lost Generation?

I just saw this nice video on the new David Korten [https://davidkorten.org/] site Sam Rose [https://socialsynergyweb.com/services/] built:

Activism

Damaging property to prevent climate change is legal

A while ago a couple of peace activists who broke into a military airfield to damage B52 bombers argued they were preventing a greater crime and won their case (see www.b52two.orgon web archive [https://web.archive.org/web/20090126142331/https://www.b52two.org/] for the story). At the

Activism

Save The Spike Surplus Scheme

The Spike [https://www.spikesurplus.org]in Peckham is under threat [https://www.petitiononline.com/paulk/petition.html]. With free permaculture courses, a community garden, recording studio, rehearsal space and much more, Spike is an exemplay example of volunteer community based regeneration. It is an important local resource. If you

Activism

Deserting the Art Bunker by John Jordan

A while back I came across this excellent talk by John Jordan (of Reclaim the Streets [https://rts.gn.apc.org/], Clown Army [https://www.clownarmy.org], The Take [https://www.nfb.ca/thetake/] etc). You can watch the talk online: Or read a rough transcript: https://www.nettime.org/

Activism

Reclaim Love 5!

Its that time of year again, when loads of lovely fluffy people gather around the Eros statue on Piccadilly Circus to remind everyone that you don’t need to buy stuff to love someone, you just have to love them! Basically, on Saturday February 16th, 2008 everyone will gather at

Activism

It's the End of the World as We know it and I feel FINE #23

Via Submedia [https://submedia.tv] I love this series and this is one of the best episodes yet! 🙂 This Week 1. Trillionaire Debt 2. Almost $100 3. PetroChina 4. Food Riots 5. Buy Nothing Day 6. No Borders Camp 7. R.A.T.M. 8. Ron Paul, who cares 9.

Activism

Days of action for squats and autonomous spaces

From https://april2008.squat.net/en/ castellano [https://april2008.squat.net/es/] | catala [https://april2008.squat.net/cat/] | czech [https://april2008.squat.net/cz/] | dansk [https://april2008.squat.net/dk/] | deutsch [https://april2008.squat.net/de/] | english [https://april2008.squat.net/en/] | français [https://april2008.squat.net/fr/] | italiano [https:

Activism

EYFA Network News

November 2007 — — — – – – – — – — – – – — — – — — — — – – — — – — While putting this newsletter together tents are still being set up on both sides of the US/Mexico border. It’s the third NoBorder Camp this year after Camps in the Ukraine in August and UK in September. And for today November 10 – on the 18th anniversary of

Activism

GuerrillaGardening.org News

Via GuerrillaGardening.org [https://GuerrillaGardening.org] Dear Troops It has been a month involving the police, a death, new guerrilla cells, poppy planting at the Ministry of Defence, bulb planting in the hundreds and lots of very smelly envelope stuffing. POLICE It’s been a while since the police took