nettime Indymedia press releases
Indymedia has published two press releases so far concerning the situation of the seized servers. Please note that there are, not unusual in cases like this one, many rumors floating around but few confirmed facts. So far there is little knowledge about what actually caused all of this. As soon as we know more we will make it known. Anna -- The two press releases, including many translations - please use and distribute them widely! For questions please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://indymedia.org/en/2004/10/111999.shtml http://indymedia.org/en/2004/10/112047.shtml more: http://www.indymedia.org/en/static/fbi.shtml --- Press Release 08 October 2004 Italy and Switzerland Requested Indymedia's Server Seizure Today, October 8, 2004, Indymedia has learned that the request to seize Indymedia servers hosted by a US company in the UK originated from government agencies in Italy and Switzerland. More than 20 Indymedia sites, several internet radio streams and other projects were hosted on the servers. They were taken offline on October 7th after an order was issued to Rackspace, Inc., one of Indymedia's web hosting providers. The reasons for the court order or who actually holds the servers now are still unknown to Indymedia. According to Italian news agency reports and an Agence France-Presse (AFP) interview with FBI spokesman Joe Parris, the FBI acted on Italian and Swiss requests. It is not an FBI operation, Parris told AFP. Through a legal assistance treaty, the subpoena was on behalf of a third country.(1) Earlier today Rackspace published a statement that they turned over the servers in response to an order under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT). The MLAT establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations regarding international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering. The court prohibits Rackspace from commenting further on this matter. (2) An Indymedia system administrator stated: We do not know if Rackspace is under a gag order, or what legal restrictions were imposed requiring them to act this way, or whether they legal department had enough time to study the request. Aidan White, the General Secretary for the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) had this to say. We have witnessed an intolerable and intrusive international police operation against a network specialising in independent journalism. The way this has been done smacks more of intimidation of legitimate journalistic inquiry than crime-busting.(3) Indymedia condemns the fact that even 24 hours after two entire servers were taken down, Indymedia is still not getting any information of the reasons for the order. By taking down 2 servers more than 20 Indymedia sites were affected in different countries globally as well as several unrelated projects. Indymedia considers this extremely invasive operation a a serious threat to the Freedom of Speech worldwide. Indymedia insists that the servers are returned because each day they are inoperable and Indymedia's irreplaceable data is unaccessible means greater material damages to the Indymedia operation worldwide. Note to editors: (2) AFP report http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=1509ncid=738e=6u=/afp/20041008/tc_afp/us_internet_justice (2) Statement from Rackspace, 8 Oct. 2004: In the present matter regarding Indymedia, Rackspace Managed Hosting, a U.S. based company with offices in London, is acting in compliance with a court order pursuant to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations such as international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering. Rackspace responded to a Commissioners subpoena, duly issued under Title 28, United States Code, Section 1782 in an investigation that did not arise in the United States. Rackspace is acting as a good corporate citizen and is cooperating with international law enforcement authorities. The court prohibits Rackspace from commenting further on this matter. For additional information on the MLAT, please visit http://library.lp.findlaw.com/articles/file/00297/002460/title/Subject/topic/Criminal%20Justice_Extradition%20and%20Detainers/filename/criminaljustice_2_2251 (3) IFJ Statement http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=2734Language=EN (4) Indymedia volunteers can only speculate about possible reasons. Switzerland Indymedia suspects that the order might have to do with two photos published on the French site (IMC Nantes) of Swiss undercover police agents in charge of the G8 events in Switzerland in 2003. In the last few weeks there was contact between Swiss, specifically the Genevan governmental authorities, and the FBI. The FBI also approached Rackspace as well as a Seattle Indymedia activist recently regarding that matter, but according to communication from Rackspace to Indymedia on Tuesday, the matter appeared to to be closed. For its part, Italy Indymedia can only
nettime Indymedia Press Release Oct 11
[deutsch unten, NL, PT, FR, ES at http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/112083.shtml] --- * News from Indymedia * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 11, 2004 Indymedia to U.S., U.K., Swiss and Italian Authorities: Hands Off Our Websites Evidence is beginning to mount that the authorities of at least four countries (Switzerland, Italy, U.K. and U.S.A.) are involved in last week's seizure of two of Indymedia's servers that brought down more than 20 of the Indymedia network's web sites and several internet radio streams. Indymedia has yet to receive any official statement or information about what the order entailed or why it was issued. An FBI spokesperson, Joe Parris, confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the FBI issued a subpoena to the provider who hosted the Indymedia servers in the U.K., but that it was on behalf of a third country. (1) Daniel Zapelli, senior federal prosecutor for Geneva (Switzerland), confirmed that he has opened a criminal investigation into Indymedia coverage of the 2003 G8 Summit in Evian. (2) Zapelli will provide details of that investigation at a press conference on Tuesday. Federal prosecutor of Bologna (Italy) Marina Plazzi has also stated that she is investigating Italy Indymedia because it may support terrorism. (3) Plazzi says she will provide more information on Thursday, October 14th. Meanwhile, international journalist associations have come forward in support of Indymedia. We have witnessed an intolerable and intrusive international police operation against a network specialising in independent journalism, said Aidan White, General Secretary for the International Federation of Journalists. (4) Indymedia is consulting with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on how to retrieve its servers and prevent further government attacks on free speech. EFF is deeply concerned about the grave implications of this seizure for free speech and privacy, and we are exploring all avenues to hold the government accountable for this improper and unconstitutional silencing of independent media., said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. (5) As of Monday, October 11, five of the downed websites have been restored, including Brasil, Euskal Herria, Poland, UK and Nice. Indymedia volunteers are working around the clock to restore the remaining sites, however at least four of them - Uruguay, Italy, Western Massachusetts and Nantes - have suffered data loss as a result of the governments' action. This FBI operation gives us even more reason to continue with what we have been doing for several years, says an activist from Italy Indymedia. Uruguay has a long history of media repression. We don't have the money to pay for web hosting, and so we rely on the solidarity of other countries. Actions like the seizure of the servers make the whole world insecure for free media, says Libertinus, an Indymedia volunteer from Uruguay, one of many Indymedia web sites that was caught in the FBI actions as a bystander. Uruguay's national elections will take place on October 31st. It's a bad time for this to happen. For more information, visit www.indymedia.org/en/static/fbi, email [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call: Tomasso at +39 3383903806 (Italy) Hep Sano at +1-415-867-9472 (San Francisco) David Meieran at +1-412-996-4986 (Pittsburgh) * Notes to the editor * (1) On October 7, 2004, Rackspace, a web hosting provider based in San Antonio (USA), turned over two servers at its London officer after it was issued a court order under the Mutual Legal Assistence Treaty. Rackspace officials claim that the order prevents them from divulging the reasons for the seizure and to whom the servers were actually given. They stated, Rackspace is acting as a good corporate citizen and is cooperating with international law enforcement authorities. See more details on www.indymedia.org/fbi and on the press releases from 8 and 9 October: http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/111999.shtml and http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/112047.shtml (2) For more examples see: http://www.indymedia.org/en/static/fbi.shtml (3) AFP report: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=1509ncid=738e=6u=/ afp/20041008/tc_afp/us_internet_justice (4) International Federation of Jounalists: http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=2734Language=EN (5) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): http://eff.org/ Presseerklärung 12.10.04 - Indymedia an US-, britische, schweizer und italienische Behörden: Finger weg von unseren Websites Es mehren sich Beweise, dass die Behörden von mindestens vier Ländern (Schweiz, Italien, Großbritannien und USA) letzte Woche daran beteiligt waren, zwei Indymedia-Server zu beschlagnahmen und damit mehr als 20 Indymedia-Websites lahmzulegen. Bis jetzt hat Indymedia weder formelle Unterlagen oder überhaupt irgendwelche
nettime Call for Media Activists to Join the G8 Preparations - Only 4 Months to Go! Next Meeting Feb 16-18, Berlin
Hi, The next G8 will be taking place in Germany in June this year. Lots of preparations are already happening. If you want to know more about the general state of protest planning, have a look at http://www.dissentnetwork.org (english), http://dissentnetzwerk.org/ (german), https://wiki.dissentnetwork.org/wiki/Hauptseite, http://www.g8-2007.de/, http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Heiligendamm_2007 and many, many more linked to from the sites above. The summit itself will take place at a very small town called Heiligendamm, situated directly on the Baltic Sea coast, a bit to the west of Rostock, a city of approx. 250.000 in East Germany, 200-250km away from both Berlin and Hamburg (for maps see http://gipfelsoli.org/Home/Heiligendamm_2007/Karten). There will be the biggest red-zone fence in the history of summits (12km long, 2.5m high, planned cost for the fence alone: 12 mio. Euro), camps surrounding it somewhere in the fields, and a week of demonstrations, action days, blockades, caravans, alternative summit, concerts... both in Rostock, near the fence and in special locations in the area. Alternative, grassroots and participatory reporting during major actions has become part and parcel of the actual actions. With the increasing dissent and resentment witnessed around the world, however, the authorities are also becoming more sophisticated both in their repressive policing measures and the media spin surrounding their meetings and summits, being the obvious target of big mobilisations. The need for more networking and cooperation between different alternative and autonomous media groups, therefore, is a dire need to strengthen our position. Different media activists and groups obviously have their own plans and want to do different things. There are, however, some common ideas and plans that are being constantly modified, developed and improved. One of these is an effective dispatch system to disseminate accurate, reliable and up-to-date information. Another is a so-called media pool, which can be thought of as a collective source of different media. And, of course, effective, participatory public media centres that can be more than a service provided by a bunch of 'professionals' to the 'public'. There will be media activism of all sorts and we're calling you now to get involved. We: a group of people who met during the last 'action conference' in Rostock last November (http://www.heiligendamm2007.de/index_en.html, http://de.indymedia.org/2006/11/162042.shtml [de]) to sketch up a general frame of what we would like to see happening with regard to media activism in June. People from 5 countries participated, focusing on video and radio, print, web, translations and dispatch. We want to build a media centre that provides infrastructure for all types of independent media making in the city of Rostock as well as 'dependencies' in the camp(s) and in the fields where necessary. Accessibility and the desire to reach both international public and activists in the fields will be big challenges. We are calling you now to participate in: * sharing experience of past media centres (what was useful? what wasn't? how much of what equipment was needed etc); * sharing tech creativity (how to reach people spread out in a not so small region); * tech support; * finding equipment; * writing; * recording; * filming; * dispatch; * fund-raising; * coordinating our work with the protests; * translating; * developing concepts for pooling material; * thinking about security for both people and material; A lot of these things need to start well before the summit and the week of protests surrounding it. But we can promise one thing: this is going to be BIG, and it'll be fun! Apart from meeting in person a lot can be done by email. If you have ideas, want to get in touch with people who share your specific interest, want to get involved in organising the general set-up: Get in touch: IRC: #g8 and #g8-tech on irc.indymedia.org List: https://lists.nadir.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/g8-mediaactivism Wiki: https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/GroupOfEight2007MediaActivism Next meeting: Berlin, Feb 16-18 Another possibility to meet is the international meeting next weekend in Warsaw Feb 9-11 (http://dissentnetzwerk.org/node/129) or the next action conference in April. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime /etc 2007 July 11-15 in Linz, Austria - watch the streams!
Eclectic Tech Carnival aka /etc 2007 will held from: Wed 11 to Sun 15 july, 2007 in Linz, Austria http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/ The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women interested in technology. It's held once a year, each time in a venue where there has been an interest in hosting one. The first was in Pula, Croatia in 2002, followed by Athens (2003), Belgrade (2004), Graz (2005) and Timisoara (2006). The event grew out of the Gender Changer's hardware and FLOSS courses. Women from all over the world organise the /etc through mailing lists, IRC and IRL meetings - and women come from all over the world to the /etc itself. The week-long carnival includes workshops on installing free and open source software, the hardware crash course, soldering, building websites plus art exhibitions, performances, cultural discussions and related presentations. The program will be streamed from the following url's: Location Stwst-Saal: http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/stwst-saal.ogg Location Maiz: http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/maiz.ogg Evening Performances Location Cafe Strom http://etc-stream.servus.at:8000/strom.ogg Use fabulous VLC media player on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux to play all your media files, including the above mentioned .ogg streams! Download at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ You can find details about the workshops, lectures, play labs and performances here: http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/workshops http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/lecture http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/PlayLab http://drupal.eclectictechcarnival.org/performances+ BOF -- Birds of a Feather - sessions are ad hoc small gatherings of women who share an interest in specific topics. The program may still change, please check the website! And the program is... Wednesday July 11 = 12:00-13:30 --- Stwst-Saal Introduction/Welcome to Eclectic Tech Carnival 14:00-17:00 --- Maiz Tools used by /ETC participants for communication 21:30 - Cafe Strom Grace Marta Latigo Life Act: Signorina Alos DJ Maiz Thursday July 12 11:00-14:30 --- Stwst-Saal Web Content from Front to Back (Gloria Willadsen) Maiz Hardware Crash Course (Donna Metzlar) 14:30-17:45 --- Stwst-Saal HTML/CSS (Audrey Samson/Urska Merc) Maiz Ubuntu Basics (Paula Graham) 19:30-21:30 --- Stwst Lectures Free Software with a Female Touch (Fernanda G. Weiden, Brazil) Lucynix (Biruktait Fekeremariam, Ethiopia) 21:30 - Cafe Strom Celeste Hutchins, USA Friday July 13 = 10:00-11:00 --- Stwst-Saal GIMP (Urska Merc) 11:00-13:00 --- Stwst-Saal UpStage (Marischka Klinkhamer/Helen Varley Jamieson) Maiz PlayLab: Hardware Two - Blingbling (Sara Platon) 13:30-17:45 --- Stwst-Saal Migrazine (Cristiane Tatsino/MAIZ) Maiz Beyond digital/DIY sex toys; Soldering (Orit Kruglanski/Carla Peirano) 19:30-21:00 --- Stwst-Saal Lecture: Chain Reaction (Reni Hofmueller) 21:00 - Cafe Strom Cherry Sunkist with visuals by Doris Prlic Saturday July 14 11:00-14:00 --- Stwst-Saal Web Content from Front to Back (Gloria Willadsen) Maiz Ubuntu Basics (Paula Graham) 14:30-17:45 --- Stwst-Saal lela code (Donestech: Eva Cruells/Alex Hache) Maiz Migrazine (Cristiane Tatsino/MAIZ) 19:30-21:00 --- Stwst-Saal Lecture: Computing / Life / Female Geek (Gloria Willadsen) 21:00-22:00 --- Stwst-Saal Lecture: Data Mining (Lize De Clercq) 22:00 - Cafe Strom Polyphonic Ensemble (Reni Hofmueller) Life Act: HEIDI MORTENSON Sunday July 15 == 11:00-14:00 --- Stwst-Saal BOF MAIZ Ubuntu Basics (Paula Graham) Foyer BOF 14:30-17:00 --- Stwst-Saal BOF MAIZ BOF 17:00-18:00 --- Cafe Strom Life Act: Schwestern Bruell and the Unknown Drummer 19:30-21:00 --- Stwst-Saal BOF 21:00-22:30 --- Stwst-Saal BOF -- http://keys.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/lookup?op=getsearch=ECE49D5C jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nettime Nettime is dead
Dear mod squad, i thought the contrary, that nettime is exactly the only list that failed to remain open in the new media criticismart lists environment, every other list came up with an idea... I am one of those persons whose mails normally don't hit the nettime quality standards or does not fit in the policy, and this also makes me even more than oppose moderation, but besides that, i think nettime failed exactly because of moderation or bad moderation in several respects: - it lost the intimacy of personal communication and personal culture as opposed to commercial and largely spread push content and academic culture - it failed to cover both Western and Eastern underground culture, largely based on the aesthetic of the imperfect *West* or on formal perfection *East* [just think to nettime's resistence to ASCII art and culture, law-fi, or compare this mail of the mod sqaud with a former mod mail http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9802/msg2.html] - the list suppressed or neglected among others criticism concerning female participation, race politics, multiple cultures, information and network culture - together with the increasing number of subsribers the list gave up somewhere to found the Neue Frankfurter Schule, but it also failed to concentrate on research both in the field of art and media. Somehow first it became a dog driven by the tail of media activism, a term originally coined by Toshia Ueno to describe the task of including subcultures and counter cultures in an interface remaking and changing the public sphere - now look, nowadays even online activism is meant for saving curators of the elite. Meanwhile, together with establishing, the list also became one of the many lists... - moderation is a good ground for abuse, it may exclude alternative views, and favour unjustly other ones, ex aequo et bono it does, and so does nettime's moderation model - just to mention the example of nettime's influence on the syndicate list once started to encourage East and West European art and information exchange, where the two West European moderators failed to recognize a subscriber's East European attitude and identity, and kicked it off the the list without the community's approval, without discussion, and even without letting known the unsubscription. Problems with the nettime moderation started with the rejection of posts that could have been relevant for the list content, goal and manifesto, and ends with the complete change of the character of the list. - Pit Schulz was sighing from his boots in 1996 that there is need of a software for a list, I don't know what happened since than, where is that software? Why did the nettime bold include all the spam, why the list was not set to reject non-subscriber's mail? Even a small list like syndicate, that has no instutional support except for hosting the list on a safe server, experiments much more in the field of information exchange, with the KKnut project for example, that allows direct interaction of URL, text, and a mailinglist. Have a look at http://anart.no/~syndicate/KKnut/. - if once the nettime meeting took place as a 'let's also do something' alibi when I wanted to go to Venice in 1995, and since i did not get the visa for Italy, i got the nettime list instead of Venice, now, together with the dead of nettime bold, i state that I don't need it anymore, this year I'll make it to Venice, and i am one of the five guards who keep alive the fire of openness at the syndicate list. greetings, Anna Balint 2003.05.28. 19:17:40, the nettime mod squad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Nettimers, We are closing nettime-bold. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
