http://www.keyvan.net My weblog Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:53:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reported in The Local... Swedish police have asked the military for assistance as peace activists from across Europe head to Swedish Lapland to demonstrate against a NATO aerial exercise. NATO's Response Force (NRF) will be in the northern reaches of Sweden on June 8th to begin an eight day exercise involving over ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/06/nato-in-sweden/ From JNV: The British Government is holding an Armed Forces Day on 27 June. Peace News is calling on peace groups and individual activists around the country to celebrate Unarmed Forces Day instead! Unarmed Forces Day is a celebration of the power of nonviolence, and a protest against an attempt by the British government to ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/05/unarmed-forces-day-27-june/ Men work together. Thousands Stream into the industrial plants and offices---they come in cars, and subways, in buses, in trains---they work together, according to a rhythm measured by the experts, with methods worked out by experts, not too fast, not too slow, but together; each a part of the whole.... ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/04/more-fromm/ Erich Fromm, writing about different views on maturity and mental health in his book The Sane Society, has this to say about the popular view in the West: The concept of "maturity" and "mental health" in this view, corresponds to the desirable attitude of a worker or employee in industry or ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/04/fromm-maturity-and-mental-health/ The Pixelache team in Helsinki, Finland have posted up videos from this year's event. ZNet's Michael Albert was there talking about Participatory Economics (Parecon): Despite the cold outside, it was a nice, interesting event. I spent a few minutes presenting the Five Filters project in the open forum, but best of ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/04/pixelache-2009-in-helsinki-finland/ RSS to PDF Newspaper is a web application that takes a web feed (preferably one with full content, not just summaries) and outputs a PDF with the content formatted in columns, similar to a newspaper or magazine. It's based on the output of the Tabbloid service but built using free ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/03/rss-to-pdf-newspaper/ http://www.keyvan.net/2009/03/no-money/ Last month I spent around 3 weeks at the Interactivos?09 workshop in Madrid, Spain working on the Five Filters project. It was an amazing experience to be there and to work with so many wonderful people. Interactivos? is an annual event at Medialab-Prado where projects are developed during an intensive ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/03/five-filters-at-medialab-prado/ 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 ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/01/gaza-protests/ 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. ... http://www.keyvan.net/2009/01/boycott-israel/