CULTURE JAMMING - CRITERIA: Criteria to Consider * Non-Violence * Any gun freak can shoot bullets at the White House.. but does it advance society? * * Degree of Difficulty * How hard was it to get to where the attention is? How many miles were traveled by either the Jammer or the Jammee? * * Chance of Arrest * Was the attention area swarming with armed security (ie: Secret Service, FBI, local police, etc.) * * Public Shaming of Political Officials * Will a respected (or revered) leader become publicly embarassed by the culture jammer's actions? * * Upsetting of Planned Events * Did the actions of the jammer throw off an existing schedule or program? * * Personal Danger to Career/Livelihood * Will actions jeopardize the career of the Jammer due to blackballing or jail sentencing? * * Reaching the Masses * Was the activity, or the result of the activity, visible from afar? Did the action break the corporate media barrier and receive mention on the evening news or in the next day's newspapers?

Two simple words - “I’m Australian” - will take on harrowing new connotations, viewers simultaneously confronted with both their meaning and their futility. Chalk Balibo down as a must-see and take a cold shower afterwards. http://blogs.crikey.com.au/cinetology/2009/07/21/balibo-film-review-a-dynamite-aussie-expose/

We saw Balibo film today. It is set in East Timor where 5 journalists from Oz were murdered by invading Indonesian military in 1975 when they crossed the border of West/East Timor.

It is told mostly from perspective of another Oz journo Roger East who showed up soon after to find out what happened to them and was subsequently murdered too - in Dili by the Kopassus (SAS death squad style dudes) who were parachuted in by Suharto regime with US blessing;

Prez Ford & Kissinger visited Soeharto Inc and day after they departed invasion began... Oz govt of Whitlam and then Fraser etc supplied intelligence to Indon's "anti-commo purge" of East Timor - really Indon's capture of strategic oil and gas resources when Portugal departed its colonies.