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Be There Now (or rather, on Wednesday)

By Rupa Huq

If you click on this link it’ll take you to a 60 minute documentary directed by Ivo Gormley on web 2.0 and political participation/ grassroots activism.

If you’re at a loose end this Wednesday 8th July there is a panel discussion in Parliament on the thing sponsored by Channel 4. Click here to register. It’s a freebie. Among those disecting this powerful and moving film (not usual that things on the internet have that capacity) are Douglas Carswell (Tory MP and harrier of the ex-speaker), David Putnam (chariots of Kinnock) and my good self.

Looks like there have been a few similar discussions recently – according to Sunny and Guido. Operation Black Vote did one I chaired on Obama and Web 2.0 not long ago. The film this one is based around is caled “Us Now”. Should be a good one and geuninely interactive in the old fashioned sense.

Rupa Huq is a sociology lecturer at Kingston University where she specialises in youth culture and pop music. After a first degree at Cambridge, Rupa earned a PhD at the University of East London. Rupa also writes for the Times Higher Education Supplement, Tribune, the New Statesman, Progress and Red Pepper and appeared on BBC TV and Radio and Channel 4 News. She was the Labour parliamentary candidate in Chesham and Amersham in the 2005 general election and also stood for Labour in the 2004 European election in the North West.

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