Franny Armstrong

Franny Armstrong is a director of the McLibel documentary and obsessive McSpotlight fan, on new media's battle with the burgers.

• campaign,
• food safety

We Interrupt this Program 

On January 20, 2018, marking the one year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, Deep Dish TV and Paper Tiger released We Interrupt this Program, a video/web series about the global eco-economic-political crises and rise in far-right politics.

TTIP Leaks 

Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents. We have done so to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty. This treaty is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US.

• activism,
• globalisation,
• info-activism,
• economics

 Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

Laboratory n.

1 a facility for experiment, research and learning.

2 a space where small quantities of hazardous materials can have an effect greater than the sum of their parts.

• precarity,
• austerity

The Dangers of Co-optation with Corporations 

Over 2,000 Ogoni, including their leader, Ken Saro-Wiwa have died since they started their non-violent campaign against Shell. Many Ogoni are still imprisoned today. Their only crime was to campaign against the ecological destruction of their homeland by Shell and ask for a greater share of the oil wealth that had been drilled from under their land.

• environment,
• campaign,
• propaganda,
• globalisation

Oliver Ressler

Artist and flimmaker

Born in Knittelfeld, Austria, in 1970, lives and works in Vienna.

• politics,
• art

 Furtherfield

Furtherfield is an artist organisation founded by artists Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett in 1997 and sustained by the work of its community as the Internet took shape as a new public space for internationally connected cultural production.

• art,
• participatory media

 rebellious media conference

About the RMC

Frustrated with the mainstream media's coverage of war, climate change and the economy, or already making your own media?

Interested in acquiring new skills or finding out more about exciting radical media projects from around the world?

• diy media,
• independent media,
• media criticism

From #Takethesquare to São Paulo's #FreeYourPark 

After the square occupations of the past years, the Augusta Park actions in São Paulo, Brazil, open a new phase based on a vision of the commons.

• public space,
• Brazil,
• occupy

Political Ecology Begins When We Say "Black Lives Matter" 

"They say it's a joke they say it's a game." The slogan was launched on the Chicago streets by the group We Charge Genocide, in the middle of a demo demanding reparations for victims of police torture. The folks on the street chanted those words, we hurled them out of our mouths in staccato bursts, while looking round at the passers-by who pretended not to notice. What the chant means is either enigmatic, or it's painfully obvious. There is a kind of disdain that minimizes a death or a beating or a torture or a life sentence for black people in the name of lawfulness, efficiency, morality and humanist ideals. That kind of disdain has made democracy impossible in the US - and other places too.

• cartography,
• activism,
• social justice,
• democracy,
• BlackLivesMatter