| SCP-New York on Sat, 8 Jun 2002 03:23:13 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> contra la videosurveillance! gegen video-ueberwachung! against video surveillance! |
PLEASE TRANSLATE THIS MESSAGE INTO GERMAN, FRENCH, ITALIAN, SPANISH, ETC AND DISTRIBUTE EVERYWHERE On 7 September 2001, a network of groups staged an International Day Against Video Surveillance. Click here for more information: http://www.notbored.org/7s01.html Though it was a great success (in action were 23 different groups from 8 different countries!), this protest was inevitably overshadowed by the terrorist attacks on the USA, which occurred on 11 September 2001, just four days later. Since then, the governments of a great many countries -- the USA, Canada, France, England, Italy, Germany and Israel, to name just a few -- have cynically used the pretext of "fighting terrorism" to drastically increase their powers of coercion at all levels of operation (i.e., local police departments, national military forces, international intelligence gathering and covert operations) and to use these expanded powers to wage illegal war against both suspected "international terrorists" and legitimate political dissidents and activists in their own countries. And so it seems fitting that, in order to defend and reclaim our civil liberties, we stage our *second* International Day Against Video Surveillance on 11 September 2002, and not on its actual first anniversary. Are you interested? contact [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]