"The investigation against Netzpolitik.org for treason and their unknown sources is an attack against the free press. Charges of treason against journalists performing their essential work is a violation of the fifth article of the German constitution. We demand an end to the investigation into Netzpolitik.org and their unknown sources."
ReadTooBigHasFailed.org consists of a group of activists who think Wall Street could be better.
In
many ways we mirror the efforts of community banks and credit unions in
wanting to end "too big to fail." That is, we support the basic idea of
banking as it should be, but we oppose what Wall Street has become
today - with all of its political favoritism, excessive size, and
reckless speculation.
What's more, we believe that activist efforts can be a force for good in the world.
EuroMayDay is a transnational demonstration of precarious and migrant people held the First of May in more than a dozen European cities.
ReadThe CCC is an international campaign, focused on improving working
conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries, and empower
the workers in it. There is a Clean Clothes Campaign in 12 European countries. These are Austria, Belgium (North and South), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Framer Framed is proud to present an evening program that focuses on
YanukovychLeaks and Videoccupy; two artistic projects respectively from
Ukraine and Turkey. The projects are concerned with the notion of
archiving in relation to current political issues in these countries.
Tuinzaal, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, September 17, 2014, 20.30 hrs.
The Seropositive Ball was a networked event that lasted 69 hours
non-stop. It was a shadow conference to the World AIDS Conference, which
was held the same days in San Francisco. Because people with HIV and
AIDS were not welcome in the USA, both the Paradiso gathering as well as
the especially designed 0+net offered a way to show commitment, share
feelings and insights, exchange knowledge and art and express political
views for many people involved.
Appeal to all free people of the world: Let's work together to stop
daily massacres, arrests and displacements in Syria. Let's work together
to bring down the murderous Assad regime in Syria.
This is an appeal to all Syrian communities and to all free people
around the world to organise processions and sit-ins in front of United
Nations offices in all around the world...
We are students, precarious, unemployed, a young generation that is too much skilled for a job... We are the 'generation without future' of a Europe in crisis that we don't like and we want to change. We are students of Rome and London who have taken the streets to reclaim a better future.
ReadInternational Festival of Streaming Media
De Balie, Paradiso, Melkweg
Amsterdam, October 6 - 8, 2000
Next 5 Minutes: tactical media was a conference and exhibition that took
place at Amsterdam's Balie and Paradiso and at Rotterdam's
V2_Organisation from January 18th till January 21st 1996. The
conference was officially opened Thursday evening in Rotterdam with a
performance of the Critical Art Ensemble from Chicago about the matter
of media.
Viva La Piracy! An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry.
Read"This is an email we got from the Diesel office.
Notice how there is no mention of workers rights, or rebuking any of the points raised by our website."
- www.dieselforwomen.com
A Brave New World for Female Factory Workers: Misopolis
Diesel is proud to announce a new milestone in its ongoing campaign for
successful living. To make a free lifestyle possible for young women in
emerging markets, it will help them conquer a key life challenge: the
right to safe abortion. Welcome to Misopolis, a brave new world for
female factory workers.
Clean Clothes Campaign release
Diesel says to take female workers' rights serious, with their release
of the campaign Misopolis (see www.dieselforwomen.com). With this
campaign Diesel wants to improve the living conditions of female garment
workers by distributing free abortion pills.
Precarisation is the norm, temp work, low salaries, unemployment. Barbed wire, uniforms and camps that protect fortress-europe, excluding and persecuting thousands of women, men and children. Police and armies are in the streets, with their cameras and helicopters. Control is everywhere, terrorist laws are used to legitimize repression. The media keeps the lid on the pot that is starting to boil over. At the same time it is doing its best to convince us to keep up consumption. The serpent is eating its own tail. Our brothers and sisters in the south are paying the bill; and we pay too. Animals becoming extinct show the way to the future generations. And at the same time, the banks are throwing our billions out the window...
"Ihr sollt wissen, daß kein Mensch illegal ist. Das ist ein Widerspruch
in sich. Menschen können schön sein oder noch schöner. Sie können
gerecht sein oder ungerecht. Aber illegal? Wie kann ein Mensch illegal
sein"
(Elie Wiesel)
March 17th, 2005
How did it come to this?
Only a perverse authoritarian logic can explain how Critical Art
Ensemble (CAE) can at one moment be creating the project "Free Range
Grain" for the Risk exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt,
reconfiguring it for The Interventionists exhibition at Mass MoCA in a
second moment, and then suddenly have a CAE member in FBI detention.
The U.S. Justice Department has accused us of such shocking crimes as
bioterrorism, health and safety violations, mail fraud, wire fraud, and
even murder. Now, as we retool "Free Range Grain" for the Risk
exhibition at the Glasgow Center for Contemporary Art, the surreal
farce of our legal nightmare continues unabated.
Conceptual Overview
The products we purchase are the inventory of our lives. To chain
stores, this inventory is cataloged through the Universal Product
Locator symbol (UPC). The UPC symbol is known as a barcode. Barcodes
are now found everywhere in our world, extending outside of product
inventory into our comic books, our science fiction, our films, and
even our tattoos. These codes represent the fears of literally becoming
numbers or becoming digital that are in many of us. These are not fears
we wish to dismiss. The RE-CODE.COM project brings together the
tactical media actions of the Carbon Defense League and the video and
performance hijacks of Conglomco in a way that takes online action
outside of the box for real world instigation. Looking at the heavy
reliance on digital systems in chain stores utilizing the UPC barcode
system, we see a problem or a virus in the system. The virus is the
human. We are the nightmare of the digital to some extent. We are the
squeaky wheel.
Essay written in August 2002 for the New York University Tactical Media Lab, organised by the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History.
