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Disabled Fight Back with Central London Blockade By Richard Hering, On 1/29/12 3:17 PM

Solar - recharging a smart phone By Hamish Campbell, On 1/29/12 2:04 AM

Embed a radical media stream on your site By Hamish Campbell, On 1/26/12 9:03 PM

The Trials of the 1% @occupiedjustice By Hamish Campbell, On 1/20/12 11:53 PM

visionOntv supports the wikipedia blackout By Richard Hering, On 1/18/12 10:06 AM

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Disabled fight back with central London blockade

Dozens of protesters against the Welfare Reform Bill and cuts to disability benefits and services blockaded Oxford Street on 28 January 2012. A number of wheelchair users chained themselves together at 12 noon, joined by activists from Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC), UK Uncut, The Black Triangle Campaign and other disability rights groups. Traffic was stopped on Regents Street at the height of Saturday shopping.

Photos by Lily Poveda. Read more

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The Trials of the 1% @occupiedjustice

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BRISTOL RADICAL FILM FESTIVAL

The Bristol Radical Film Festival screens some of the most socially and politically engaged documentary films from around the world. Taking place over the course of a week, the festival hosts screenings in a variety of community-based venues, culminating in a weekend of screenings, talks, workshops and debates at the entirely volunteer-run and not-for-profit cinema, The Cube. The variety of venues reflects the festival's aim to bring this kind of cinema out from the shadows and in the community.

visionOntv is running a MAKING NEWS ROADSHOW to train video citizen journalists on Saturday 3 March at 10am. SIGN UP here

visionOntv's Hamish Campbell is attending the screening of his film GREENHAM: THE MAKING OF A MONUMENT on Tuesday 28 February.

The Bristol Radical Film Festival showcases a radically different kind of cinema. In the wake of the recession and the unnecessary and unjust attempts to make ordinary people pay for it, recent months and years have seen an explosion of protest, resistance and solidarity. The fight back is on. Come and see what cinema can do to help.

For more information, visit http://www.bristolradicalfilm.org.uk/index.html, or see our Facebook pages here: https://www.facebook.com/events/141597512623564/ here: http://www.facebook.com/RadicalFilmFestival?sk=app_106878476015645 here: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/260720467326820/ and here https://www.facebook.com/events/294219810626007/

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visionOntv supports the wikipedia blackout

Today every page of the English-language wikipedia is offline. This is to protest the STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP ACT (PIPA) currently winding their way through the US legislature. Both these bills would do well-documented damage to the internet and to civil rights, both in the US and the rest of world. Catch a video on this on plugandplay.

Like wikipedia, visionOntv distributes creative commons material, where the copyright is owned by the producers. Like wikipedians, we monitor films we put out for copyright violation. And like wikipedia, we are adamantly opposed to this legislation, and to other laws being passed around the world at the behest of large entertainments corporations. We consider these laws to threaten the restraint not only of our basic trade, but of the freedoms on which we all rely.

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Happy New Year to all!

visionOntv news

You may have been involved in any of our many activities this past year, for instance the Rebellious Media Conference or our Making News Roadshows in Liverpool, London or Tokyo. You might have been involved on either side of the camera in our studio shows at Opentech, Adhocracy, Mozilla Festival, Democracy Village or Occupy London. You may have joined one of our independent Street Reporters Networks. Or you may have joined the interactive Rebellious Media Conference site to access the largest video/audio documentation of current alternative media practice. You might be a viewer of some of the 20,000 videos in our channels, or you might have used our citizen journalism training resources.

There will be a host of similar activities in the coming year, offering lots of opportunities to get new skills and contacts. We would like to keep you informed occasionally about these, with a very low traffic newsletter. You just have to email us here with "subscribe" in the subjet to receive it and you can easily opt out whenever you want.

A year of radical events and media

2011 has been incredibly rich in dramatic events, from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring.

The cameraphones and alternative media have been key actors of these protests and traditional media had no choice but to broadcast videos recorded by the public.

Here is a small selection of independent films representing the past year's events:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3zii2qzGbaM#!

http://live.rebelliousmediaconference.org/war-and-the-media

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc000YDVY5o&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi5dFIXZ5o8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WmJmmnMkuEM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbmvLJ1dAOo&feature=player_embedded

And a new one on why we need to keep fighting for a free internet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9xNAhA9Ozm8

Support us!

This shows that more than ever we need to support and distribute grassroots media, getting people journalistic skills they need and promote videos the best we can to make sure their voice gets heard. Only with your support we can continue our action! Every donation, even as little as £5, will make a huge difference in building and improving the visionOntv project.

Click here to donate now!

The media needs you!

There are many ways you can get involved with visionOntv:

publish blog posts, announce an event on the calendar, promote your videos, have a channel on your site, be part of a community of street reporters...

Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year

the visionOntv team

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Sankofa - "Don't forget your past and bring it into the present"

Martha McAlpine writes on the challenge of making a film for Hackney's Black History Month.

"The notion of 'going back and retrieving one's past' was an idea that was very much celebrated by many of the people I interviewed and an idea that has since made me think a lot about the shape of our society and the feelings of people on the streets.

When I was originally given the task to make this film I did not know where to start....."

The Court - justice for the people?

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visionOntv mobile phone news report competition at Roehampton Human Rights Film Festival

visionOntv will be kicking off this year's Roehampton Human Rights film festival with a workshop to help you to make short news reports and and upload them to the web using just a mobile phone. The workshop is free and open to everyone, and will take place at the University of Roehampton in Duchesne 103 between 4pm and 6pm on Monday December 5th.