Chris CJ Stone is one of the UK’s most eclectic and colourful writers about the ‘underbelly’ of UK society, from paganism to the most neglected housing estates, and lots on festivals, Travellers and counter culture including the alternative King Arthur! Well worth visiting his blogs and more.
Christiania Freetown, Copenhagen in Denmark. One of the oldest squats turned legal arts and creative communities in Europe. A special place of exploration.
Chris Waite is sadly no longer with us. But this site offers some of his videos and poems about the early free festivals in the UK. Plus his two-parter, Looking for America, filmed with native Americans and others in Dakota.
Links to various articles from the British Library archives. Opens with Dreamers and Dissenters.
Alternative media hub. They state that CrowdVoice is “tracking voices of protest” around the globe. Certainly it provides some alternative views on world news and conflicts. lots of different countries and issues covered.
Deep Ecology. The Foundation based on the ideas that Arnae Naess developed up to his death in 2009. In essence, all about ‘wild nature’. The say:
“We begin with the premise that life on Earth has entered its most precarious phase in history. We speak of threats not only to human life, but to the lives of all species of plants and animals, of the entire ecosphere in all its beauty and complexity including the natural processes that create and shape life's diversity. It is the grave and growing threats to the health of the ecosphere that motivates our activities.”
Arts community is squatted ex-cigarette factory in the Netherlands.
They say:
"In 1980 a group of about 40 artists squatted a former Mignot cigarette factory in Eindhoven. They were determined to have space where to create and experiment with new forms of art: performance, video, installations... They were all engaged with the same aim: keep doing things as long as possible , giving complete freedom to the artistic process of creation. De Fabriek is still going on, based on the same principles.”
Dial House is located near Epping in Essex, UK.
Permacultural and arts courses AND the community that is home for founders of anarcho-punk band, Crass, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher.
Links to their facebook page and SpiralSeed permaculture site, all about ‘permacultural anarchy’ and composting toilets at Dial House.
The San Franciso Diggers were one of the legendary groups in Haight-Ashbury. The San Francisco Diggers evolved out of radical traditions that thrived in the SF Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement. The Diggers Archives website includes a vast array of historic material.
Innovative housing and self-help village for homeless and impoverished Portland, USA, residents.
Their site says: “Dignity Village is a membership-based community in NE Portland, providing shelter off the streets for 60 people a night since 2001. It’s democratically self-governed with a mission to provide transitional housing that fosters community and self-empowerment– a radical experiment to end homelessness.”
Links to their main site and a ‘YES’ magazine article.