the reality tunnel

Justin, a boy that I met at PIX fest and when we played in Madison pointed me to this article about a diy warehouse space near where the freewheel bike project used to be.  The space is currently shut down as a result of publicity and related enforcement of building codes.  The tone of the [...]

Here’s the outline for the workshop that Andrew and I did at PIX Fest.

Introduction/Background
Politics

What role should technology play in my organizing/activism?
Is technology exclusionary ?

Age
Class
Gender
Geography

Computers are bad?

Mechanics

Knowledge Hierarchies (Consolidation)
Role segregation
Staying relevant
Sustainability
Project/Task Management
Understanding Risks
Tools

Networking

Groups with common needs leading to common solutions
Working collectively

In a community
Decentralized

I just posted 2 new posts for this guy who blogs from prison who I met doing pages to prisoners.  One is about a character in prison and access to mental health support for prisoners.  The other is about a penis tattoo.  Both give a pretty interesting, personal, look at prison life.  You can read [...]

I wanted to write about Plan-It-X Fest as it was unfolding, but that didn’t happen.  I guess I’ll try to write about it in retrospect.  One thing that I’m really stoked about is that we organized an entire fest, with around 1000 participants, and spent less money on the whole thing than many cultural fests [...]

Dear fellow residents of the City of Bloomington,
I am one of the people responsible for the influx of hundreds of people to our town during the past week for the Plan-It-X music festival.  In conversations that I’ve had with residents of our community who were not involved with the planning or who didn’t participate in [...]

In a way, the question of how you deal with the scumfucks who probably have been breaking into buildings around the fest is the same question as what you do with the wealthy college kids who live in the fancy apartments, is the same question as the ones asked by “The Hardest Question Ever”. [...]