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Statement on Open Strike in the Cultural Sector in Lebanon
In solidarity with and participation in the popular uprisings taking place across Lebanon against the current systems of power, we the undersigned cultural organizations and structures collectively commit to Open Strike, and call for our colleagues in the cultural sector to join us.
ReadMoments Within the Movement: A Conversation
Devin Allen and Stephanie Renée on the power of photography and citizen activism in contesting social injustice Fields of Knowledge
ReadUnpresidented: Washington Post, May 1, 2019: Trump Flees White House
Unauthorized Special Edition of the Washington Post: “Trump Flees White House”
“Bye-Bye 45” offers road map to creating the near future we want and need
Shadow Citizens - Želimir Žilnik
Online Film Programme
As part of the exhibition, more than twenty of Žilnik’s films are from now on available for online viewing. Many of these are rarely screened, and all are being made available online to this extent for the first time. The films trace various periods and different working conditions within Žilnik’s practice.
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.
Broadcasting: Guerrilla Media
An exhibition exploring activist strategies undertaken by media collectives, organized with EAI and ICA
We Interrupt This Program
Deep Dish TV and Paper Tiger TV to Release New Video Series About Resistance to Rise of Far-Right Political Movements.
We Interrupt this Program brings together reports from frontlines of fight against white nationalism, neoliberalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.
TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine
Outer Spaces Conference Series 2017
An analysis of ISIS and its media strategy, the meaning of cyber jihad, and why people enrol as foreign fighters.
The 12th conference of the Disruption Network Lab
Directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli. Studio 1, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin.
Art, Resistance and Rebellion on the Net
Call to join the cybernetic edition of CompArte "Against Capital and its Walls, All the Arts"
July, 2017
Prisoners of Dissent — Locked Up for Exposing Crimes
Berlin · May 12 2017:
Conference series by Disruption Network Lab e.V.
Whistleblowers and truth-tellers persecuted for blowing the whistle, critical thinkers and activists meet to discuss countermeasures to detention and repression.
The 11th event of the Disruption Network Lab to celebrate the upcoming freedom of Chelsea Manning and launch the new book by John Kiriakou (CIA anti-torture whistleblower). Directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli.
With: John Kiriakou (CIA anti-torture whistleblower, USA); Annie Machon (former MI5 intelligence officer, UK/BE);
Annegret Falter (Chair Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., DE); Magnus Ag (Senior Programm Officer, Freemuse, DK/DE); Silvanos Mudzvova (Artist Protection Fund Fellow in residency at The University of Manchester, ZWE/UK).
How much of this is fiction. @ HeK, Basel
How much of this is fiction. focuses on politically inspired media art that uses deception in all its forms, and will be showing at HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) from 23 March until 21 May 2017.
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A conversation between the Electronic Disturbance Theater & Ian Alan Paul
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
مركز خليل السكاكيني الثقافي
Wednesday, March 22nd, 6:30pm
Khalil Sakakini Str. Al Masyoon, Ramallah, Palestine
Wednesday, March 22nd, 6:30pm
How much of this is fiction. @ FACT, Liverpool
Exploring the radical shift in the boundary between fiction and reality in a world increasingly governed by ‘post-truth’ politics
Exhibition @ FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, 2 March 2017 - 21 May 2017
Public Opening: Thursday 2 March / 6 - 8pm / All galleries
Final Program: As If / Vox Populi / The Syrian Archive / The Society of Post-Control
Tactical Media Connections public program, Amsterdam January 20 - 22, 2017.
As part of the Tactical Media Connections public research trajectory tracing the legacies of Tactical Media and its connections to the present, a series of public events take place in Amsterdam between January 20 and 22, 2017. The public program includes an exhibition at Framer Framed in the Tolhuistuin cultural centre, opening on Friday January 20; a Meme Wars Lab workshop on Friday January 20; a public debate at Eye Filmmuseum on Saturday January 21, and a one day conference (‘The Society of Post-Control’) again at the Tolhuistuin on Sunday January 22.
Please find below a brief program overview, followed by a detailed description of the different parts of the public program.
Chelsea Manning Begins Hunger Strike to Protest Bullying by Prison and US Government
Today, [September 9] after years of requesting the care she needs for gender dysphoria, Chelsea Manning has released a statement about the start of her hunger strike.
Chelsea is demanding written assurances from the Army she will receive all of the medically prescribed recommendations for her gender dysphoria and that the "high tech bullying" will stop. "High tech bullying," is what Chelsea describes as "the constant, deliberate and overzealous administrative scrutiny by prison and military officials."
Special "Merseyside editions" of The S*n appear in Liverpool newsagents: The Truth - We Lied
A spoof edition of The S*n tabloid newspaper has started to appear at Liverpool news agents, following the Sun's refusal to mention the Hillsborough inquest verdicts on its front page, and the infamous 'The Truth' front page on April 19, 1989, containing false accusations towards Liverpool fans. In parallel a nation wide campaign has started refusing free World Cup promotion editions of The Sun across the UK.
International #GlobalDebout meeting, May 7-8, Paris
International meeting for #GlobalDebout programme May 7th-8th – Paris, Place de la République
Location: Paris, Place de la République
This meeting is intended for activists and citizens all over the world.
International Call by #NuitDebout
Call for a #GlobalDebout, May 15, 2016
We call for a #globaldebout day of action on the 15th of May, 2016.
We call on peoples movements across the world to mobilise for justice and real democracy on the weekend of May 15th, 2016 for a #GLOBALDEBOUT. We invite you to come to Paris for an International Gathering of movements at Place de la Republic on May 7 and 8.
Today #46mars (April 15) is just two weeks after one million people mobilized in Paris and the movement Nuit Debout continues to grow. In numerous French and foreign cities, #Nuitdebout (Night on our Feet) is a light in the dark, it gives testimony to our hopes, dreams and common rebellions. Those who have taken the squares in the past and those who are taking them NOW: we know something is happening.
TPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter - 5 October 2015
Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP encompasses 12 nations representing more than 40 per cent of global GDP. Despite a final agreement, the text is still being withheld from the public, notably until after the Canadian election on October 19.
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