The Way is the Goal Interview with Maqui, Indymedia London / IMC-UK Network Activist

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Milan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Media Center ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Independent Media Center ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Organizational Needs

Indymedia UK was created in 1999; right after the first Independent Media Center was set up in Seattle in November that year to allow participants to the anti-WTO demonstrations to report from the streets. But it emerged from an earlier website, created by a group of activists to report from the occupation of the City of London in June 18, 1999. Since 1999, the website has kept growing, incorporating technological developments and responding to the organizational needs of social movements. This interview recounts the birth and developments of the Indymedia London website and of the group running it. It was collected between February and November 2008 using the method of online asynchronous interviewing, and is part of an extensive research project on emancipatory communication practices carried out in the period 2006-2008.2

Excavations in the City of London: First Interim Report, 1974–1975

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hobley ◽  
John Schofield ◽  
Tony Dyson ◽  
Peter R. V. Marsden ◽  
Charles Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Set Up ◽  
City Of London ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Important Evidence

SummaryThe Department of Urban Archaeology, City of London, was set up in December 1973 as part of Guildhall Museum, now the Museum of London. Since then it has excavated sixteen sites and carried out numerous watching briefs. Most of the formal excavations have been conducted on the vital waterfront sites, made available for the first time, and on the Roman and medieval defences of the City. Important evidence of the elusive Saxon occupation is gradually coming to light, and the work is accompanied by specialist research, particularly finds, environmental and documentary.

Decision-making under duress: the treatment of churches in the City of London during and after World War II

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER J. LARKHAM ◽  
JOE L. NASR
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Multiple Experts ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

ABSTRACT:The process of making decisions about cities during the bombing of World War II, in its immediate aftermath and in the early post-war years remains a phenomenon that is only partly understood. The bombing left many church buildings damaged or destroyed across the UK. The Church of England's churches within the City of London, subject to a complex progression of deliberations, debates and decisions involving several committees and commissions set up by the bishop of London and others, are used to review the process and product of decision-making in the crisis of war. Church authorities are shown to have responded to the immediate problem of what to do with these sites in order most effectively to provide for the needs of the church as an organization, while simultaneously considering other factors including morale, culture and heritage. The beginnings of processes of consulting multiple experts, if not stakeholders, can be seen in this example of an institution making decisions under the pressures of a major crisis.

The Battle of Seattle and the Birth of Indymedia

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
New Model ◽  
Media Center ◽  
Independent Media ◽  
To Come ◽  
Independent Media Center ◽  
The City

On the eve of the 1999 World Trade Organization ministerial meetings in Seattle, software programmers, Matt Arnison and Manse Jacobi posted the first message to the newly created, open-publishing indymedia.org website, which concluded with what later became a classic indymedia prompt: “Add a comment on this article.” In the days to come, thousands of journalists, activists, organizers, and concerned citizens responded to the call, and the new Independent Media Center (IMC), as well as the city of Seattle, were “swamped by the tide of activist media makers.” With hundreds of volunteers on the ground and millions of visitors turning to the new participatory news portal, a truly open, democratic newsroom was established, and the indymedia movement was born. This chapter provides an account of the organizing and vision that went into establishing the Seattle Independent Media Center in two short months before the WTO meetings. It also focuses on the work that went into establishing the first IMC, the innovations and possibilities that emerged during the Seattle experiment, and finally, some of the problems that surfaced in this new model of movement-based communications.

scholarly journals Considerations on the European Companies and holdings

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1167-1177
Author(s):  
Roxana Maria Chirieac
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Law System ◽  
System A ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Transnational Companies ◽  
Full Capacity ◽  
Set Up ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

AbstractIn a political and economical climate that one might qualify as troubled, and on the background of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, and therefore no longer offering the city of London as a light tax haven for the companies that don’t undergo transactions of economical substance on its territory, one might question the survival of transnational companies across the European Union. In this context, we thought of analysing the European companies, their history and their present day formation as well as their administration. The idea that one might carry out their activity throughout the European Union, using a simpler and lighter form of company, the idea that the administration of such company is easier and one doesn’t have to comply to the national legislation of each member state is indeed appealing. But what of the success of this regulation? Is the procedure indeed as simple as it was thought out to be, and if so, are the natural and moral persons using it to its full capacity? Also, on the other hand, what of the holding institution, generated by the common law system, a lot longer ago, which allows one to administer various companies in various states through a company that is located anywhere in the world. How are holdings incorporated, how are they administered and is this institution still in use in the European Union, considering the fact that one might set up a European company as a holding?

Abraham Hill, F. R. S. (1635-1722)

1960 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-182 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Set Up ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

Abraham Hill´s claim to remembrance is founded not on contributions to the advancement of knowledge (for he made none), but on his services to the Royal Society and to the Board of Trade, where his administrative and business abilities were exercised. Since he did not acquire fame in any other sphere o f life, little information is to be found in contemporary records about him. He was descended from a family that had its roots in the county of Devon (1). His father, Richard Hill, a cordwainer established in Lime Street in the City of London (2), became a prosperous merchant, who was one of the Committee for the Safety of the Kingdom set up at the Guildhall, London, on 14 November 1642; who was one of the Treasurers of Sequestrations at the Guildhall; who was one of the Commissioners for Prizes taken in the Dutch war (3); who became alderman of Candlewick ward of the City of London (1654) (4), and Master of the Cordwainers’ Company (1655) (5). Abraham Hill was the eldest son of this Richard by his wife Agnes; he was bom in London, and baptized 16 June 1635 (6). The statement, that he received no more than an ordinary schooling (7), is probably correct, for his name does not appear in any of the published registers of well-known London schools flourishing at that time; moreover, he is said to have been brought up by his father as a merchant. It seems likely that he became a merchant speculating in foreign trade (8), though his name is not identifiable in the London Directory of 1677. No mention of him has been noticed by the present writer in the records of the Cordwainers’ Company, and if he were admitted to any other City company, the fact has yet to be discovered.

Wenn stadtpolitische Bewegungen das Terrain des Staats betreten

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (191) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Diesselhorst
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
City Government ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Hierarchical Decision Making ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Hierarchical Decision ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article discusses the struggles of urban social movements for a de-neoliberalisation of housing policies in Poulantzian terms as a “condensation of the relationship of forces”. Drawing on an empirical analysis of the “Berliner Mietenvolksentscheid” (Berlin rent referendum), which was partially successful in forcing the city government of Berlin to adopt a more progressive housing policy, the article argues that urban social movements have the capacity to challenge neoliberal housing regimes. However, the specific materiality of the state apparatus and its strategic selectivity both limit the scope of intervention for social movements aiming at empowerment and non-hierarchical decision-making.

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