Monthly Archives: January 2009

Gaza Protests

By Keyvan | Published: 22 January 2009
There’s a demonstration for Gaza in London this Saturday (24 January 2009). It will be starting at 2pm outside BBC Broadcasting House to protest the BBC’s one-sided coverage (and now its refusal to show the DEC Gaza appeal). Here in Gothenburg, Sweden, there will be a demonstration starting in Götaplatsen at 2pm and marching to Gustav [...]
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Boycott Israel

By Keyvan | Published: 16 January 2009
I added the ‘Boycott Israel’ banner to this site after reading Noami Klein’s reasons why a boycott might work and Micah White’s post on the Adbusters blog — he’s posted up the HTML you’ll need to copy and paste if you want to display the banner on your own site. To find out which Israeli [...]
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Interactivos ‘09 Project at Medialab Prado

By Keyvan | Published: 11 January 2009
I recently submitted a proposal to work on an interactive project exploring the propaganda model. It’s a project that’s going to be developed collaboratively, and I’d be very happy to hear ideas, suggestions and to work with people interested. At the moment, one idea is to use text extracted from newspaper clippings to identify and retrieve [...]
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Emergency Demonstration

By Keyvan | Published: 9 January 2009
There are demonstrations this Saturday (10 January) against Israel’s attack on Gaza. If you’re in the UK, there’s more info on the Stop the War website. If Britain were Gaza… 30,600 dead Gaza has a population 1.5 million. In the last thirteen days Israel has slaughtered 765 Palestinians, 220 of them children, and injured 3500. A [...]
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Israel Armed with Internet Savvy

By Keyvan | Published: 6 January 2009
This weekend Israel was celebrating the first week of a “hasbara” campaign – the Hebrew word that has come to mean “spin” and “propaganda” – being waged on several fronts, including unprecedented use of the internet and other new media. Despite a ratio of more than 100 Palestinians killed for every Israeli during Operation Cast Lead, [...]
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