Greenpeace event time-lapse graffiti video

Please allow yourself the time to watch this brilliantly made video that was produced by Greenpeace in Copenhagen to mark the premiere of The Age of Stupid movie. Not Stupid – Greenpeace event time-lapse Graffiti video from Karuna Guzmán Møller on Vimeo.

Huge Yes Men shenanigans on Monday in New York

The uncanny Yes Men are up to something big on Monday. Five days ago, they sent out an email to their mailing list with a message saying that “If you live in New York, please visit http://newyorkbigevent.com/ to sign up for some GIANT, extremely FUN, potentially WORLD-FIXING shenanigans on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. (…) We can’t […]

Reverend Billy made it onto the ballot

Great news for New York City. Reverend Billy’s dedicated street team has managed to collect 18,000 signatures and thereby cleared the path for at least one trustworthy candidate at the upcoming election for the mayor position in the worlds greatest city. From the newsletter: “More than 100 of you collected over 18,000 signatures. We are […]

Violent police raid against Iraq fugitives in Copenhagen last night

Last night, Danish police raided Brorsonkirken (Brorson Church), which has served as shelter for a large group of Iraqis that have been denied political asylum and are awaiting being sent back to Iraq. The case is highly controversial and has split the country into two groups; those in favor of the repatriation and those – […]

Dow vacates London HQ to avoid Bhopal water

Just received this from the admirable Yes Men: July 13, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “B’EAU-PAL” WATER SCARES DOW EXECS INTO HIDING Plans to contribute to climate action in lead-up to Copenhagen begin to take shape Photos: http://www.theyesmen.org/blog/dow-runs-scared-from-water London – A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water – this time not from the melting Alps, nor […]

The Pirate Bay ownership to change hands?

This was just announced minutes ago on The Pirate Bay blog: TPB might change owner Yes, it’s true. News reached the press today in Sweden – The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB. A lot of people are worried. We’re not and you shouldn’t be either! TPB is being sold […]

Climate Greenwash Award winner announced: Vattenfall!

This weekend, an alliance consisting of Corporate Europe Observatory, Attac, Klimabevægelsen (Danish for ‘Climate Movement’), KlimaX and NOAH held the so-called ‘Climate Greenwash Award’-show in Denmark. A satirical event aimed at creating critical awareness of the Business Summit held in Denmark the very same weekend. From the Climate Greenwash Award website: Big business is keen […]

Just joined the Danish pirate party

I just joined the Danish pirate party, Piratpartiet, an equivalant to the Swedish pirate party, which has now grown to more than 44,000 members, fuelled especially by the so-called ‘spectrial‘-verdict (The Pirate Bay trial in which they were found guilty of assisting copyright infringement). While the Danish party is still relatively small (I believe they […]

Piracy – the result of a market failure

If you have just the slightest interest in the heated debate about filesharing and torrents going on right now, you should read the brilliant piece author Matt Mason (of the book The Pirate Dilemma fame – a truly eye opening book about the topic) has written for the TorrentFreak blog, adressing not only The Pirate […]

The Pirate Bay trial invalid? (translation of Swedish article)

Just a couple of hour ago, this breaking news article was published on the webpage of SR (Swedish National Radio). It unveils how the judge of the The Pirate Bay spectrial is actually an active member of the Swedish copyright lobby. As no English media has picked up the story yet, I have made a […]