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Why We Protest: Freedom of Information
'Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this
right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to
seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers.' -Article 19, United Nations Declaration of
Universal Human Rights
Operation: Payback
To whom it concerns,
Over the past years, we have borne witness to a technological
revolution. The individual has become free, in the most extreme
anarchistic sense, to share ideas. Some of these ideas are shared
behind proxies, darknets, or similar ?closed doors?. Nevertheless, the
ideas are out there. There have been similar instances of such
revolutions of the mind. Their effects on society are inestimably
great. As in past times with the invention of the printing press, so it
is today that the people embrace this revolution, this new ?anarchy? of
freedom to share, while their autocratic rulers seek to crush this
freedom.
Engineering of Consent
One of the major challenges facing citizen groups campaigning to prevent, minimize, limit or regulate socially-irresponsible or environment-degrading practices of transnational corporations is how to deal with the corporations' increasing call for 'dialogue' and 'cooperation'. Many transnational corporations say they have seen the error of their ways and have rectified their mistakes. Eager to do their best for 'our common future', they claim to be listen to their critics. Thus 'dialogues' with companies or industry organizations are frequently portrayed as the way ahead for citizen groups seeking corporate accountability, rather than 'confrontational' strategies such as boycotts. What are the dangers and limits of doing so?
The Internet Freedom Fallacy and Arab Digital Activism
This article focuses on grassroots digital activism in the Arab world and the risks of what seems to be an inevitable collusion with U.S foreign policy and interests. It sums up the most important elements of the conversation I have been having for the last two years with many actors involved in defending online free speech and the use of technology for social and political change. While the main focus is Arab digital activism, I have made sure to include similar concerns raised by activists and online free speech advocates from other parts of the world, such as China, Thailand, and Iran.
ReadRecombinant Television
VakuumTV was founded in February 1994 on the initiative of Laszlo Kistamas and currently includes Dora Csernatony, Ferenc Grof, Laszlo Kistamas, and Attila Till. Its members presented weekly broadcasts on Monday nights at the most popular cultural club in Budapest, Tilos az A. Between February 1994 and September 1997 Vakuum TV broadcast 52 shows, and after 3 years of rest, started broadcasting again in 2000. Each show blended short films, interactive engagements between the audience and the announcer, and live performances but each used a very different content to create a parallel televisual reality.
ReadThe Power of Social Media - The Helplessness of Traditional Media and #direngeziparki #direnankara, #direnizmir
Residents of Istanbul started a peaceful sit-in as a reaction to the city governments plans to demolish Taksim Square's Gezi Park on the May 29th 2013. The demolition was part of the plan to replace the park and construct a shopping mall on one of the only green areas left in the central cross road of Istanbul. The reaction was sparked by a decision making process that lacked any consultation with citizens. Inhabitants of the city initiated this on-site protest to raise their voices against the demolition plans, but also to exercise their right to freedom of speech and to freedom of assembly in a democratic society.
ReadThe Saudi Cables
WikiLeaks publishes the Saudi Cables
Today, Friday 19th June at 1pm GMT, WikiLeaks began publishing The Saudi Cables: more than half a million cables and other documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry that contain secret communications from various Saudi Embassies around the world. The publication includes "Top Secret" reports from other Saudi State institutions, including the Ministry of Interior and the Kingdom's General Intelligence Services. The massive cache of data also contains a large number of email communications between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and foreign entities. The Saudi Cables are being published in tranches of tens of thousands of documents at a time over the coming weeks. Today WikiLeaks is releasing around 70,000 documents from the trove as the first tranche.
make world paper 2
The World Social Forum, organized twice in Porto Alegre 2001 and 2002, not only prompted a flurry of autonomous self-organization, crossborder organization, and creative media interventions. It also initiated an intense process of analysis and reflection on the tricky question of a 'global' dynamic of self-organization.
ReadSmall, Furry Mammals
The McLibel media strategy arose from a simple premise: this story has
to be told. Most people have been affected by McDonald's in one way or
another - working in a store, being nagged by children, stumbling
through litter, suffering ill-health or enjoying their burgers - and
the corporation's influence continues to increase as they relentlessly
pursue their "global domination strategy" (to use their own words). Two
people investing their lives to stand up to such a force has got to be
a great story in anybody's book.
3rd ArtLeaks Working Assembly - Belgrade
Cultural Center REX, Jevrejska 16, Belgrade, Serbia
Friday, 31st of August, 7pm, 2012
Participants: Corina L. Apostol, Maja Ciric, Pavle Cosic / KORNET,
Nikola Radic Lucati, Vladan Jeremic, Selman Trtovac, Vesna Milosavljevic
/ SEEcult.org, Stefan Tiron, Noa Treister, The Bureau of Melodramatic
Research, Marica Radojcic, Rena Rädle.
The 3rd ArtLeaks Working Assembly will be facilitated by Corina Apostol, The
Bureau of Melodramatic Research, Stefan Tiron and Vladan Jeremic.
Contestational Robotics
Keywords: robots / contestation / public space / expression management
Basic how-to guide for preserving fundamental rights on the Internet | Xnet
Xnet publishes a Basic How-to guide for preserveing fundamental rights on the Internet
#Democracy – Rights and freedoms protected by the people: recent events in Catalonia as a case study
How-to guide: https://xnet-x.net/en/how-to-for-preserving-fundamental-rights-internet/
Even more basic PDF version.
Julian Assange & WikiLeaks Public Defense Fund
Julian Assange's safety is in serious jeopardy. He is now threatened with imminent arrest and extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States where he faces life in prison. He and his campaign team urgently need your help. Elements in the US government are aggressively pressuring Ecuador to withdraw his asylum status - the time for action is now!
Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto
In memoriam: Aaron Swartz
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to
keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural
heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is
increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private
corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results
of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like
Reed Elsevier.
Everybody will be TV
Programming produced by any big transnational TV network (CNN, BBC, etc.) is, from the standpoint of an Internet user, similar to an Aggregator site distributing video material. It may also function as a portal providing a variety of material of interest to the viewer. Similarities abound - sections of a transnational TV network correspond to parts of an aggregate site: a program schedule is analogous to a web site index, news programs function as general information about the portal's community, shows represent particular web pages or sections on the portal. Most importantly, both TV network and a Web portal try to fulfill the basic media mission: to define its own reality and broadcast it that reality to potential followers - TV viewers or Internet users.
ReadIs there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style?
An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki
ReadIntroduction Sarai Reader 04: Crisis / Media
"The darkest, hottest place in hell waits for that repulsive angel choir
Which, at the hour when crisis strikes, sings equivocal, neutral songs".
Dante, Inferno, Canto III.