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hydrarchist writes: The next episode in the peer to peer wars is underway. This breaking story is taken from the excellent Infoanarchy site.
" In an unprecedented move, the Danish police has shut down at least six servers on the eDonkey2000 network on Monday (Heise has a German summary). eDonkey-servers are similar to Napster servers -- they do not host any actual files (and unlike Napster, eDonkey indexes much more than just music). Apparently, Danish police acted under pressure from the anti-piracy group, Antipiratgruppen. One of their representatives even accompanied the police raid on one eDonkey server operator's home.
The operator of that server, Siffan, has contacted an attorney and has gained access to a friend's computer. He is blogging the events as they unfold, currently in Danish, but English translations will follow soon. According to people on the #SiffansPlace IRC channel, 11 more eDonkey client users were "busted", but only 2 persons were charged. More details as they emerge.
Read more at Infoanarchy"
Letter From Italy to the EZLN
Luca Casarini, La Jornada, Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Translated by irlandesa
Dear Brothers and Sisters of the EZLN:
The oppressive winds which have been blowing of late from your continent
to ours, that wind which, since September 11, has been bringing bad omens,
of death and destruction, of misery and war, brought us the news about the
decision by the so-called Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
hydrarchist writes
Horst Fantazzini, anarchist, robber, prison rebel, spent most of the last thirty years in prison. Last year he was eventually released into semi-liberty. On wednesday December 19th he was arrested, in the company of another anarchist, Carlo Tesseri, near a bank in Bologna and and charged with intent to commit robbery . Horst died of a heart attack in jail on December 24th. Carlo Tesseri remains incarcerated. Fantazzini was famous in Italy as a 'gentle robber' who eschewed violence against individuals. His time in prison intersected with the mass political unrest of the 1970s, during which he won reknown both for his refusal of the authoriatrian practices of the Red Brigades and his unrelenting resistance against the prison system. Enjoy.
"Interview with Horst Fanatazzini, a life in prison:
sentence completion date 2022
What is currently your legal situation and when do
you foressee yourself being able to get out of jail,
at least into semiliberty?
At the moment, my release should occur, more or less,
in 2022. In terms of typologocalical classification, I
think I've been filed in the category "dinosaurs and
tortoises". I think that beyond the freedom committees
of the anarchist milieu, the World Wildlife Fund
section on 'endangered species' should also take an
interest in me.....
hydrarchist writes:
"Towards an ‘Army of Ideas’—
Oppositional Intellect & The Bad Frontier
J. J. King
[...] you strive to take away my livelihood, and the liberty of this poor weak frame of my body of flesh, which is my house I dwell in for a time; but I strive to cast down your kingdom of darkness, and to open hell gates, and to break the devil’s bonds asunder wherewith you are tied, that you my enemies may live in peace; and that is all the harm I would have you to have.
Gerrard Winstanley[1]
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
William Shakespeare
Introduction
To commence anecdotally: I recently ecountered, uncoincidentally in a part of London that has over the last five to seven years been gentrified beyond anything but the barest degree of recognition, in a cafe that has got itself up in some sort of impression of a souk, and in which coiffed quasi-bohos lounge with lattes and smouldering joints, a young ‘cracker’ who had until recently been part of a pirate community which took part both in the ‘chipping’ of mobile phones (releasing a user’s hardware from indenture to a particular service provider), the copying of DVDs, modification of gaming consoles, so on. The person in question had been engaging in such activities for years, he explained, until realising that, far from challenging traditional market structures, his group was actually performing a form of underground marketing that had already been recognised by certain corporations – he named Sony specifically. Increasingly those corporations were using underground ‘cracker’ communities to distribute early versions of their products which, with their readymade illict halo, had an instant appeal to the youth market at which they were largely targeted. Disgusted, the young activist immediately ceased his activities.[2]
ProletarianNews writes:
SALZBURG -- Thousands of anti-globalization protesters marched
peacefully down the streets of this historic Austrian city on Sunday, a
day ahead of an economic summit set to bring together hundreds of
business leaders and politicians from the region.
With police in riot gear deployed throughout the city to prevent
possible violence, the activists -- a mix of environmentalists,
socialists, hippies and self-styled anarchists -- marched to protest
what they say is globalization's destructive impact on the poor and the environment.
Decades-old surveillance files surface
MAXINE BERNSTEIN, JAMES LONG and HENRY STERN
The Portland Oregonian, 09/13/02
A former Portland police officer decades ago removed more
than 30 boxes of police surveillance records and photos on
political activists and groups from the 1960s to early 1980s
that, by state law, should have been destroyed in 1981.
Santa Cruz, California City Officials to Hand Out Marijuana
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (Reuters) - Santa Cruz city leaders plan
to take part in a public pot giveaway next week to protest a
recent federal raid of a medicinal marijuana cooperative
that served mostly terminally ill members.
City Councilman Ed Porter said on Thursday he wants to show
solidarity with residents in the beach community located
some 70 miles south of San Francisco who are outraged at the
federal raid last week that occurred without the support or
knowledge of local officials.
hydrarchist writes
"The
War on Freedom and Democracy"
An Analysis of the Effects
on Civil Liberties and
Democratic Culture in the EU
by Tony Bunyan
The "war
on terrorism" has turned into an ongoing "war on freedom
and democracy" which is now setting new norms - where accountability,
scrutiny and human rights protections are luxuries to be curtailed
or discarded in defence of "democracy".
hydrarchist writes:"
Buenos Aires, August 25, 2002
National mobilization called for next September 10 in
support of the occupied plants and factories
With the presence of more than eight hundred delegates
representing factories, trade unions and popular
assemblies, the First National Conference of Plants
and Factories Occupied and In Struggle was held,
organized by the Bloque Piquetero Nacional (National
Picketeers’ Bloc) and the Movimiento Independiente de
Jubilados y Desocupados (Independent Movement of
Pensioners and Unemployed).
hydrarchist writes "The following article was originally published on Counterpunch on September 7th.
Levelling and 9/11
On September 11, 1648, the Levellers submitted the Large Petition with 40,000 signatures to Parliament. The deed was decisive because it set in motion the terrible events that culminated four months later in the execution of Charles Stuart, King of England, and because the Levellers, the first popular democratic political party in European, if not world, history, announced their opposition to the enclosures of the commons, or the privatization of the English land.
It seems to be a pure coincidence that
the Large Petition and the attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin
Towers took place on the same day and month, though the former
was three and a half centuries earlier. The coincidence arises
like magic from the dull miasma of created amnesia. We have
forgotten the history of freedom and the commons. This is not
accidental either: the ruling class dumbs us down, and the dumbing
starts at the top.
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