Anonymous Comrade (awm13579@yahoo.com)posted this article by L. A. Kaufmann:

"It's now official: In the wake of the September 11
disaster, the IMF and World Bank have indefinitely
postponed their planned late-September meetings,
and the raucous street protests that were to greet
them have effectively been canceled. (At this
writing, the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, the
more radical of the two organizing coalitions, has
still not decided what it's going to do.)

There still will be teach-ins and at least one
large interfaith vigil in D.C. that week. Meanwhile,
the International Action Center -- front group for
the Stalinist Workers World Party, with a long
history of supporting murderous dictators like
Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, and
Slobodan Milosevic -- is planning to go forward
with a September 29 "March Against War and
Racism" in Washington. I suspect a lot of other
groups may sign on, because there's a widespread
desire to do something. But you won't catch me
supporting a "peace march" organized by a
bunch of authoritarian opportunists who have
no problem with slaughter, so long as it's
committed by their pet tyrants.

Anonymous Comrade writes: "Due to the recent events at the World Trade Center, Washington
DC, and western Pennsylvania, the Armada to reclaim
Governors Island has been postponed indefinitely. It had been planned for the 16th of September.
-- from Waterwire, September 13, 2001


http://www.waterwire.net


Still, try and catch the excellent exhibition on the NYC waterfront at the Municipal Art Society -- it includes a fully functional bio-tank designed to clean toxic metals from urban water."

An Arabic on-line newpaper, Ilaf, quoting "fundamentalist Arab sources," has reported that Osama bin Ladin is under "house arrest" by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban Party.

Link to a British source: http://www.bridge.com/com/story.asp?story=12078&fixed=yes

As all of you probably know already, the world trade center was destroyed this morning. News is available at all the normal places on the net, TV and radio.

I must say that watching the towers collapse was a bizarre experience. But the questions of who is responsible still are unanswered. Was this "another Pearl Harbor" as some media folks are saying, or perhaps another Reichstag fire (it is election day!). Fox news even dared to try to make a connection between the World Trade Organization protests and the attack on the World Trade Center, so maybe the "new Palmer raids" are about to be unleashed. CBS just reported that two Navy warships are headed to NYC to "protect" us.

please post comments with any thoughts or reactions to what happened today

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Autonomedia writes: "Parse the politics in this one:



MOSCOW (Reuters) - Friday August 31 1:36 PM ET - Russia warned its computer experts on Friday of the
dangers of visiting the United States after a Russian software designer was
arrested there for violating a controversial new law.



http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010831/tc/tech _russia_usa_dc_1.html "

Ramor Ryan provides a more detailed and poetic account of the days of Genoa: "

Death And Terror In Genoa

by Ramor Ryan

The Siege of Genoa

The walls went up around the old quarter of Genoa, enclosing the Group of 8 (G8) and their cohorts. Huge heavy walls of concrete and metal, like medieval fortifications or prison fences; walls to keep the people out, the world leaders penned in. Genoa is a beautiful renaissance city carved out of a treacherous mountain slope that seems as if it might slide irrevocably into the sea. Its pulsating streets, the mystery of its dense labyrinth and the expansive calm of the sea front are a surreal theater for the battle that would consume it.

Charas writes: "In a court hearing today on an order to show cause,
Civil Court Judge Saralee Evans vacated the warrant of eviction issued
against CHARAS and stated that the warrant clerk who issued a 72 hour
notice on August 23rd had clearly made a mistake. She went on to stay
that there was nothing dark or mysterious about the warrant, that it was
not intentional on the clerks part. She then spoke to Singer's lawyers
about the fact that they went to get a warrant in the first place, after
she had issued a decision barring them from getting a warrant until
December 12th.

Gregg Singers lawyers rewrote the decision when they tried to explain to
Judge Evans her own order. They said they had waited ample time for
payment and that the order stated that they could get a warrant unless
CHARAS paid rent to them the day of the hearing, Aug. 10th. The Judge
was noticeably angry but did not sanction them nor reprimand them. She
said that they will not try this again, that her order was clear that no
warrant would be issued until December 12th, and that there was no due
date for payment of returned rent.

Singers lawyers were then given the certified payments in the court
room, as they have refused them August 10th and have refused them since
May.

The Marshall was again in the back of the courtroom, this time he was
reading regulations concerning liability. Probably because he is
liable. We will meet with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund to see if
there is something we can do."

hydrarchist writes: "

When the Digital Millenium Copyright Act was passed in 1998, including criminal provisions against those who 'traffic' in 'anti-circumvention devices', that is programs which allow users to exercise their fair use rights by unlocking encrypted content, many believed that the provisions were only inserted as a threat without substance. Liberals found incredible the idea that people could actually go to jail for writing code.

They were mistaken.

This evening the federal prosecutor for the Northern District of California announced the inditement of russian national and resident Dimitri Skylarov, author of Elcomsoft's Advanced e-Book Processor, on five counts of breach of the DMCA - principally under Title 17, United States Code, Section 1201(b)(1)(A), ,the section outlawing the trafficing of circumvention devices - and conspiracy. Dimitri was arrested while at Defcon 2001 presenting a paper on security flaws in Adobe's ebook reader.

Adobe informed the cops. The cops acted. The coding public went into uproar and Adobe has now been trying to weasel out of their catalytic role in the prosecution. They now insist that the problem is one better sorted out without the intervention of the criminal law. Yet they knew exactly what they were doing when they went to the Feds. Immediately after his arrest, Colleen Pouliot, Adobe Senior Vice President & General Counsel said:

"We did contact ElcomSoft asking them to cease and desist what they were doing. In addition, honestly, [laughs] we didn't think the likelihood was terribly high of getting any money out of a Russian company, so we think this course of action is appropriate."

Source: NPR Morning Edition broadcast of 19 July

Under Section 1204 of the DMCA, those found guilty of breach of section 1201 can be sentenced to up to 5 years in jail and fined up to $500,000 for their first offense. Subsequent offenses can recieve up to ten years incarceration and $1,000,000 in fines. Demonstrations are currently planned for San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston in the US, as well as overseas, all on August 30th. All details are available at the Free Skylarov website.

You can access the AP wire report, and the discussion at Slashdot.

Mass resistance to the intellectual property enclosures.

For the commons.

Free Skylarov.""

genoaResistance writes:

GenoaResistance is starting to put together a People's Tribunal to investigate the events durning the G8 summit between the 19th and 26th July. The tribunal will take place from October 19 to 21 to coincide with a Mobilization in Genoa on the same weekend. We are now looking for nominations for our panel of civilian judges and volunteers interested in working on collecting and organizing testimony and evidence, and also on helping with the logistics of the
Tribunal.

For the guidelines on nominations for judges to the People's Tribunal see Guidelines for Nominations

For the objectives of the People's Tribunal see Objectives of the People's Tribunal

For skills we are looking for in volunteers, see Volunteers

For more information email contact@genoaresistence.org