One Saturday in March some 200,000 people took to the streets of Lisbon to express their frustration and desperation with the government's performance, corruption and its economic/social policies. It was in fact a beautiful day filled with creative and humorous approaches to protesting from a city (and a country) that knows...
Artistides de Sousa Mendes saved the lives of over 30,000 people in Southern France in 1940. He did so in defiance of orders from the Portuguese Dictator who in turn disgraced him and blacklisted him, eventually leaving him in poverty. This included the loss of Casa do Passal his iconic family...
Someone joked with me as they watched me sort through video from the 27C3 in Berlin last week - "Blinking lights, computers, nerd humor...that looks like every year of the congress." Good point, I thought to myself. But I still love gathering and assembling highlights for my...
A vlog entry regarding how tweets from conflict zones often get repeated and then expanded or exaggerated and then at some point becomes the story.. even if it isn't accurate. Not to say twitter should be filled with fun, creative lies, and general randomness.. I like that...
The squatting community in Amsterdam is under siege, with the new law declaring squatting illegal, many who have lived in their homes for a decade or more are now considered criminals and subject to forceful eviction. ; But the community and its supporters have not given up hope and...
