The neoconservatives have been dreaming of this day. The Project for the New American Century wrote in 2000:
"And advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
Thats on page 79 of Rebuilding America's Defenses: http://www.why-war.com/files/rebuilding americasdef enses.pdf
You can have a real effect on what is going to happen. Please take a few minutes to help us out with this action.
Here's how to help:
1) The students engaging in this civil disobedience are meeting with the Dean of their college Wednesday, October 22nd at 4pm. We need you to email *nice* and *supportive* emails to rgross1 (at) swarthmore.edu and cc them to info (at) why-war.com *before* October 22nd at 4pm EST. Please help Dean Bob Gross understand the importance of this issue!
2) Download the entire memo archive: http://why-war.com/memos/s/lists.tgz
3) Join the disobedience by hosting the memos and posting the URL in this thread
Diebold stories have been a constant presence on/. recently. Here's how to help:
1) The students engaging in this civil disobedience are meeting with the Dean of their college Wednesday, October 22nd at 4pm. We need you to email *nice* and *supportive* emails to rgross1 (at) swarthmore.edu and cc them to info (at) why-war.com *before* October 22nd at 4pm EST. Please help Dean Bob Gross understand the importance of this issue!
2) Download the entire memo archive: http://why-war.com/memos/s/lists.tgz
Over the past months, activists and artists with different backgrounds
ranging from indymedia centers to the noborder-networks, from the Free
Software movement to community media, from grassroots campaigns to hacker
collectives, have been discussing how to intervene in, outside of, counter
to, or as an alternative to the agenda and organisation of the World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS) from December 10th to 12th in Geneva,
Switzerland.
WHAT IS WSIS?
WSIS is the first of two global summits dealing with information and
communications to be held by the United Nations in Geneva. But the Summit is
a smokescreen. Although it talks about the digital divide, knowledge
dissemination, social interaction, political engagement, media, education,
and health, this language is used to mystify the continuing use of
information to protect and advance the interests of global capital.
GENEVA-03
Geneva-03 is an open, loose and temporary association of groups and
individuals who are currently preparing a series of events around the WSIS.
Its common goal is to create autonomous physical and network spaces for
diverse tactical, grassroots, activist and community media actions and
discussions in and around the WSIS meetings.
The issues at hand are many:
* Shaping and subverting the information technologies that are now part of
everyday life.
* Refusing both war and infowar.
* Countering the exploitation of immaterial work and informalized labor.
* Resisting border management and digital rights management.
* Defending our commons of ideas, including indigenous knowledge, scientific
data, free software, educational systems and creative expression against the
immense pressures of privatization.
* Fighting for freedom of movement and freedom of communication for all
people, not just those who promote and benefit from capital. The actions
taking place at WSIS? WE SEIZE! will seek to promote new ways of
communicating, what is communicated, by who and for whom: to create new
social formations that can address the systems of domination that surround
and inform our world.
The struggle takes place from the local, regional and global infrastructure
(radio and TV spectrum, wireless frequencies, cable rights of way, satellite
orbital paths) to the content that traverses those structures. These
networks should be for the benefit of and use by all the world's people,
organised to nurture and sustain social cooperation.
WSIS? WE SEIZE!
The event will work around these areas:
* A strategic convention before the UN summit in Geneva, comprising
discussions, panels and presentations.
* A polymedia lab to share tools, skills, experiences, and knowledge.
* A three day netcast which will follow the revolution of the earth,
streaming independent media activism and community media projects from
across the globe.
Geneva-03 is asking all interested people to get involved with this
initiative. We are working to establish venues and schedules, as well as
options for accomodation and general survival in the expensive city of
Geneva.
There will be a further preparation meeting at the European Social Forum in
Paris in November. For all people interested in the Geneva-03 project, this
is the open working list: http://lists.emdash.org/mailman/listinfo/prep-l
and the website: http://www.geneva03.org/. The Geneva03.org website is an
open publishing forum where you can post your proposals, ideas and
contributions.
My highschool uses surfwatch to block sites, and from personal experience I have found that even the adults within the school who use the internet for legitamate purposes end up being very dissatisfied with the whole thing. Surfwatch may block alot of smut, but for the average user who isn't using the computer for porn, they end up being blocked while going to legitamate sites extremely often. For librarians who think blocking is an easy answer, i think they will be sorely dissapointed when they start having patrons complain that they can't reach a site about whales, or some other site which has been blocked for no reason.
Slashdot Mirror
http://why-war.org/mirror/cryptome.org/RIAA-CEA.pd f
The neoconservatives have been dreaming of this day. The Project for the New American Century wrote in 2000:
g americasdef enses.pdf
"And advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
Thats on page 79 of Rebuilding America's Defenses:
http://www.why-war.com/files/rebuildin
(delete the space in the url)
here is a direct link to the archive, please download and mirrore mos/list s.tgz
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/scdc/m
micah
Email info (at) why-war.com if you are willing to mirror the files.
You can have a real effect on what is going to happen. Please take a few minutes to help us out with this action.
Here's how to help:
1) The students engaging in this civil disobedience are meeting with the Dean of their college Wednesday, October 22nd at 4pm. We need you to email *nice* and *supportive* emails to rgross1 (at) swarthmore.edu and cc them to info (at) why-war.com *before* October 22nd at 4pm EST. Please help Dean Bob Gross understand the importance of this issue!
2) Download the entire memo archive:
http://why-war.com/memos/s/lists.tgz
3) Join the disobedience by hosting the memos and posting the URL in this thread
SCDC: http://scdc.emegaweb.net/
Why War?: http://www.why-war.com/
Diebold stories have been a constant presence on /. recently. Here's how to help:
1) The students engaging in this civil disobedience are meeting with the Dean of their college Wednesday, October 22nd at 4pm. We need you to email *nice* and *supportive* emails to rgross1 (at) swarthmore.edu and cc them to info (at) why-war.com *before* October 22nd at 4pm EST. Please help Dean Bob Gross understand the importance of this issue!
2) Download the entire memo archive:
http://why-war.com/memos/s/lists.tgz
3) Join the disobedience by hosting the memos
WSIS? WE SEIZE!
Over the past months, activists and artists with different backgrounds ranging from indymedia centers to the noborder-networks, from the Free Software movement to community media, from grassroots campaigns to hacker collectives, have been discussing how to intervene in, outside of, counter to, or as an alternative to the agenda and organisation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) from December 10th to 12th in Geneva, Switzerland.
WHAT IS WSIS?
WSIS is the first of two global summits dealing with information and communications to be held by the United Nations in Geneva. But the Summit is a smokescreen. Although it talks about the digital divide, knowledge dissemination, social interaction, political engagement, media, education, and health, this language is used to mystify the continuing use of information to protect and advance the interests of global capital.
GENEVA-03
Geneva-03 is an open, loose and temporary association of groups and individuals who are currently preparing a series of events around the WSIS. Its common goal is to create autonomous physical and network spaces for diverse tactical, grassroots, activist and community media actions and discussions in and around the WSIS meetings.
The issues at hand are many:
* Shaping and subverting the information technologies that are now part of everyday life.
* Refusing both war and infowar.
* Countering the exploitation of immaterial work and informalized labor.
* Resisting border management and digital rights management.
* Defending our commons of ideas, including indigenous knowledge, scientific data, free software, educational systems and creative expression against the immense pressures of privatization.
* Fighting for freedom of movement and freedom of communication for all people, not just those who promote and benefit from capital. The actions taking place at WSIS? WE SEIZE! will seek to promote new ways of communicating, what is communicated, by who and for whom: to create new social formations that can address the systems of domination that surround and inform our world.
The struggle takes place from the local, regional and global infrastructure (radio and TV spectrum, wireless frequencies, cable rights of way, satellite orbital paths) to the content that traverses those structures. These networks should be for the benefit of and use by all the world's people, organised to nurture and sustain social cooperation.
WSIS? WE SEIZE!
The event will work around these areas:
* A strategic convention before the UN summit in Geneva, comprising discussions, panels and presentations.
* A polymedia lab to share tools, skills, experiences, and knowledge.
* A three day netcast which will follow the revolution of the earth, streaming independent media activism and community media projects from across the globe.
Geneva-03 is asking all interested people to get involved with this initiative. We are working to establish venues and schedules, as well as options for accomodation and general survival in the expensive city of Geneva.
There will be a further preparation meeting at the European Social Forum in Paris in November. For all people interested in the Geneva-03 project, this is the open working list: http://lists.emdash.org/mailman/listinfo/prep-l and the website: http://www.geneva03.org/. The Geneva03.org website is an open publishing forum where you can post your proposals, ideas and contributions.
My highschool uses surfwatch to block sites, and from personal experience I have found that even the adults within the school who use the internet for legitamate purposes end up being very dissatisfied with the whole thing. Surfwatch may block alot of smut, but for the average user who isn't using the computer for porn, they end up being blocked while going to legitamate sites extremely often. For librarians who think blocking is an easy answer, i think they will be sorely dissapointed when they start having patrons complain that they can't reach a site about whales, or some other site which has been blocked for no reason.