[Imc-alternatives] Possible site launch target, and defence of Indymedia

[strypes]

Kia ora koutou

I was wondering if you were all aware of the new initiative being
launched by the Zapatistas, as a globalization of their 'Other
Campaign'? As usual Marcos' prose is moving, and inclusive, and
substance seems very much in tune with our work on the Alternatives IMC.

"In Mexico and on the five continents we have found what we intuited
when we began our sixth step: there is another world, there is another path.

If the catastrophe that is coming can be avoided and humanity is to have
another opportunity, it will because these others, below and to the
left, not only resist, but are already drawing the profile of something
else.

Something different than what is occurring above."

The full text of the communique about the 'First Global Festival of
Dignified Rage' can be found here:
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/76'081/index.php

The proposed dates are December, and January. Is it too ambitious to aim
to have a working site up in time for a tie-in? After all, "drawing the
profile" of "another path" is exactly what the Alt-IMC is about!

Also, are you all aware of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It
looks like the latest global 'war' by governments against their people
will be the war on sharing. As if the war on some drugs, and the war on
fighting terror, aren't bad enough. It's freedom of information vs
Disney et al's right to make money from forbidding sharing.

Most of the good work that Indymedia does, and has done, depends on the
defence of a free and open global internet. ACTA is one of a number of
attacks on that freedom, that we need to actively challenge. My
commentary on ACTA and some links to others by EFF etc is here:
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/76066/index.php

There's coverage on various other IMCs too:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/17/18508203.php
http://scotland.indymedia.org/node/10690

Love and Rage
Strypes

-- 
BTW Fight the 'Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement'!
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/76066/index.php

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about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the
best we can."
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