Subject: Virtual Sit-in: Don't Bomb Iraq!/Electronic Disturbance Theater FWD From: Tom Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:24:50 -0400 Message-ID: <v04011700b272b5a04a30@[208.254.144.189]> Mailing List: fnb-l Word Matches: IRAQ FWD ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE THEATER EMERGENCY BULLETIN Friday, November 13, 1998 CLINTON: DO NOT BOMB IRAQ! JOIN ONGOING VIRTUAL SIT-IN ON WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE NOW http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsPublic/ddkfoyer.htm The Electronic Disturbance Theater opposes U.S. plans to bomb Iraq and urges like-minded people to join an emergency FloodNet action to send a message of peace to world leaders. EDT encourages people who oppose a U.S. military strike against Iraq to participate in an ongoing virtual sit-in on the web site of the White House starting at 5:00 p.m. EST today by clicking on http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsPublic/ddkfoyer.htm and following the instructions and leaving your browser on. EDT neither supports the Pentagon nor Saddam Hussein, but believes a U.S. military strike on Iraq will result in the death of more Iraqi people. This should not happen. The 1991 U.S. driven military assault on Iraq left tens if not hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead, crippled Iraq's infrastructure, devastated its economy, destroyed the environment, and caused untold numbers of soldiers to contract Gulf War 'syndrome' illnesses. The U.S. continues to insist on the maintenance of sanctions against Iraq, another form of deadly warfare in which basic medicine is unavailable and malnutrition flourishes. The result: 1.5 million Iraqis - half of them children under 5 - have died since 1991. During the first Gulf War, hundreds of thousands of Americans actively resisted Bush's attack on Iraq. Despite a complete media white out of real news from Iraq or of news about protests at home, the Gulf War opposition spread to cities large and small under the banner: No War For Oil! In 1991, aware Americans knew that U.S. foreign policy interests in the Middle East were inextricably bound to oil production and consumption. Today, we know the same. U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is driven by its desire to secure and maintain access to and control over that resource rich region. Just as people took to the streets in 1991, people will do the same now. But unlike during the first Gulf War we have the opportunity to express our opposition in digital forms. In its discussion of the evolution and convergence of computerized activism and politicized hacking, EDT has seen potential for the role that Hacktivism will play in Resistance to Future War, or warfare dominated by computers and telecommnuications. Electronic Disturbance Theater http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html ECD Archive http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd.html Next Action: November 22, 1998 -> School of the Americas - END - The Direct Action Media Network does not take responsiblity for any information on the damn-future list. If you are interested in finding out any more information about the events list here, please contact the poster directly. Thank you. AEND FORWARD - -Food Not Bombs List [EMAIL PROTECTED] -distributing food in opposition to violence -archive: http://www.tao.ca/~fnbtor/fnb-l/ -active cities: http://webcom.com/peace -send '(un)subscribe fnb-l' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List As vilified, slandered and attacked by One Nation mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
