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See also: Free Tibet listing
Here are links to the International Campaign for Tibet, campaigner, Kate Saunders and the Tibet Society.
There is no definitive view on the best ways in which to support Tibet, Tibetans and the Dalai Lama.
Lots of blogs, news items, links to videos, books and more.
The interactivist info exchange.Up-keep by Autonomedia.
On-line archive collection of ‘it’ magazine 1966-1994. One of the most read underground press newspapers from the UK in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
Seems so, this is becoming a lovely republic of icon painters, artists, great abandoned houses, cosy cafes, a lot of mysterious courtyards, uphill streets and ladders, of painters, art dealers, monks and nuns, Central Asian-immigrants, birthplaces of and living places of many known Russian poets, writers, painters, musicians, jokers etc.
It's old and officialy functioning again since 2002, hence: expect something marvellous if you believe, and if you don't believe be amazed by the Power of Transformation and Expansion this epoch's about!
Sacred space within a form of FCS
A lovely film animation based around the words of John in an interview from Toronto 1969. It was conducted by 14 tear old Jerry Levitan.
Pause for thoughts.
“Anything you hear is there…all answers.”
Cartoon Kate is something of UK-alternative-institution. Her first, fab cartoon book was ‘Copse’ the cartoon book of tree/road protests.
She has produced much fine, thought-provoking work about environmentalism, squatting, eco-protest and more. Including the Calais refugee camp cartoon, 'Threads'. Awesome! Help her to fund its printing and distribution.Have a good look around her website.
Their site states: “La Via Campesina is the international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity. It strongly opposes corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies that are destroying people and nature.”
In the UK, its linked organisation is called the Land Workers’ Alliance.
Agriculture, conscious living, protest. This is:
A 50 year-old campaign of resistance against the construction of a second airport near the city of Nantes, in western France. This resistance culminated in the establishment of a self-organised autonomous zone, known as the ZAD. Over 40,000 people have taken part in creative acts of disobedience to defend this zone.
Links to their official site and a film about the resistance.
Founded by Vít Jedlička. Liberland motto is: “To live and let live”.
On the borderlands of Croatia and Serbia, this self-proclaimed micro-nation of Liberland has no residents and is in effect disputed territory. But it has excited much interest from around the world. A ‘playful’ free state – perhaps!
Links to the official site with links to lots of articles from media around the world. And a short video from Vit.