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| [Nettime-bold] Stop the G8: Online Demonstration Scheduled |
Stop the G8: Online Demonstration Scheduled Contact: Isaac Keyes, [email protected] >>> Stop the G8 >>> www.cipherwar.com >>> Press release #001 Online Demonstration: 31 August, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------- Stop the G8 - a new activist site -------------------------------------------------------------- Stop the G8 is a new website dedicated to the international struggle against the G8, WTO and all other major neo-liberal, capitalist institutions around the world. This is truly an international struggle. We have seen the effects after neo-liberalism across the globe; unemployment, global poverty, reduced global public health and public safety. We have seen protesters from every corner of this planet join the demonstrations in Seattle, Gothenburg, Genoa and Prague. And now we�ve taken this struggle to the internet in the shape of this website as a part of what will be the longest online protest campaign ever. We will bring you news, demonstration information from the streets and tools and information for a successful online campaign. We will not only host online actions and demonstrations against the G8 in Canada 2002 (we�re planning to organize actions every second month against that meeting until it�s over), but also organize actions against every major summit until then. //Isaac Keyes Project Coordinator [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------- Online Demonstration: 31 August, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------- The first online demonstration will be held on 31 August at @791-916 against the official Canadian G8 site: (http://www.g8.gc.ca, 198.103.104.34). What is an online demonstration? The goal is to flood the website with requests until the server goes down, this will not cause any permanent damage to the target, but it will serve as a symbolic action, and that is enough to make the collective presence of activists felt beyond the electronic networks. How do I join? On 31 August we�ll add a link to the front page of this website, and you just have to click on that link in order to get some basic information. The only thing you need to participate is a browser that supports frames. What is @XXX? @XXX is called Internet Time and is a universal timezone. The time is the same all around the world, simplifying planning and coordination. On our website there is a program to help you convert to and from Internet Time. - EOF - www.cipherwar.com/g8 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold