Thatcher Demo - interview with a funeral director
Sunday, April 14, 2013
We talk to a funeral director touting for business at the Thatcher Demo 2013. Cheaper to bury her in a northern coal pit. .. read more..
Le temps des châtaignes
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Jean Samouillan parle de son film sur les châtaigneraies dans le sudouest de la France, qui ont été pour la plupart abandonnées lors de l’exode rural des années 60. Il expose un projet de revitalisation de cette ressource, qui s’opère, sur des bases é... .. read more..
The Media Has Squatted My Brain
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Give powers of arrest to garden gnomes! Sound advice from poet Pete the Temp to protect your property from squatters. http://visionon.tv/grassroots Written and performed by Peter Bearder. Directed by Richard Hering. .. read more..
Building a solution driven journalism - Jeremy Wickremer
Thursday, September 20, 2012
At the "Good News for the Media" event organised at the British Museum, Jeremy Wickremer, founder of Ideal Media, talks to visionOntv about the importance of building an alternative to "negative media" by developing a solution driven approach to journalism. On 27th September, ... .. read more..
Grow Heathrow blows raspberry at squat laws
Monday, June 18, 2012
Squatters at a grassroots community action group bordering London's Heathrow airport talk about their legal fight to stay on a previously derelict piece of land. Their aim is to show how resilient communities can salve the social injustices thrown up by global economic, ecological and democr... .. read more..
Shield reporters from abusive mogul pressure
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Curbing media monopolies and shielding reporters from being pressured to break the law would loosen abusive moguls' power over British politics, says "Chavs" author Owen Jones. Media reforms should also boost working-class voices by stopping unpaid internships and giving scholarshi... .. read more..
Real media reform implies changing politics too
Friday, May 18, 2012
Author Dan Hind talks of the cancer-like criminal endeavours linking major UK media, politicians and the police that have come out of the ongoing Leveson Inquiry. He says deep-rooted media reform could profoundly change UK politics and economic policy. .. read more..
UK media reforms must tackle moguls' power or fail
Friday, May 18, 2012
Media academic Natalie Fenton says channeling public fury about the phone hacking scandal is critical to ending private and corporate dominance over UK governments. People should shout out: "we're mad!" to force politicians' hands. .. read more..
Murder detective turned media phone hack victim
Friday, May 18, 2012
Former Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames, an ex-police detective, gives a first-hand account of her family's media mauling by journalists from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World newspaper. She is among many victims calling for media reform. .. read more..
Journalists covering violent demonstrations
Monday, March 26, 2012
Journalist Mark Covell was beaten unconscious by Italian police during the 2001 Genoa G8 summit. He says independent journalists should train and prepare to cover potentially violent demos. He spoke before Black Block, a documentary about demonstrators attacked in cold blood by Italian riot police. .. read more..
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