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10 Tactics – for turning information into action is a toolkit for info-activism; it includes a documentary film, presenting the tactics and material for learning more. The film shows rights advocates from different countries working on grass root level with human rights issues. The film was shot in 2009, and it sheds light on many of the issues that reached mainstream media with the wave of protests in 2011.

The film is a good discussion opener in groups that work with human rights and new media. It gives ideas about actions that can be done, but warns also about taking care about the people that participate. The film and educational material about the 10 Tactics are creative commons licensed, so anyone can set up a film screening. The film can be downloaded from: http://www.informationactivism.org

Mašta offers an in-depth insiders view on emerging wave of protest actions arround the world, written by activist and travelling contemporary folk musician Ryan Harvey (Even If Your Voice Shakes):

"Something big is happening in the plazas and streets of the United States. Emerging from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York, a new movement has taken shape that seems to transcend what many organizers have classically envisioned a mass social movement against the economic system looking like… but it’s shaping up to be one! Below I offer some context to this movement, a description of some of its dynamics and positions, a brief summary of what has been happening since it began September 17^th, and my opinion on what this all means."

(Read full wersion of Occupy Wall Street And Beyond: An Update From The United States by R. Harvey below)

Taking into account the fact that transport industry is one of the greatest contributors to the environmental pollution (in Sweden it makes 40% from the whole amount of poisonous emissions), organisation planka.nu has calculated that it's cheeper to have free public transport. Only with unsignificant growth of taxes its possible to reduce the mankind contribution to the environment at the same time ensuring free public transport and developed bicycle infrastructure in the cities.

Has your day ever lit up with a sudden and unexpected finding? A note in the book you took from the library? A box urging you to pick it up, containing a magic surprise a stranger had left there for you?

The idea is to leave around notes, images, boxes and whatever one can come up with.
Purpose? Set people's thoughts and smiles on fire!

How to start?