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The Electronic Disturbance Theater and the borderlands Hacklab call for a virtual strike in solidarity with the May 1st General Strike / Walkout / Boycott in the US and actions for Freedom of Movement taking place all over Europe on May 1st, 2006.
Information control is a critical part of the control of people's movement and the information dissemination engines such as CNN are used to propagate racist propaganda from the mouths of Lou Dobbs, Tom Tancredo and Sensenbrenner every day. Racists like the Minutemen, with known ties to neo-Nazi groups, have become an everyday fixture in the US media landscape. With this virtual strike, we will join the millions marching in the US, Mexico and Europe in slowing down the economy by slowing down the information systems.
On this day without an immigrant, we will also have a day without Lou Dobbs, Semsenbrenner and the Minutemen in cyberspace. Join us in making this a reality.
This virtual strike is also made in solidarity with La Otra Campana of the Zapatistas, who are marching to the US consulate in Mexico City as part of their campaign to overthrow the evil governments of the world by building community power from below and from the left.
May 1st has been celebrated for more than a century as International Workers Day, commemorating the struggle for the eight hour workday in the US and the state murder of anarchist labor organizers in Chicago in 1887. The militant labor movement in Chicago was largely due to the influence of radical immigrant
workers from central Europe, who were the most exploited of the working class. Today we reclaim May Day as a day for migrant people everywhere.
Against HR4437 and for amnesty for all! For a world free of deportations and detention centers! For Freedom of Movement and the Right to Stay! For a world free of borders! For a world free of racist immigration controls! For a world free of neo-liberalism and capitalism! For a world where many worlds fit!
Join the Virtual Sit-In, May 1st, 2006 and help make the massive mayday strike/walkout/boycott be felt throughout cyberspace.
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"The forums have been down for several hours and we have been working to find out what exactly the problem has been. We have received a ton of media attention the last few days and in light of today's events, we have been flooded.
We are also concerned about possible malicious attacks. Our apologies for this inconvenience. It is still possible that they will continue. Please disseminate."
Sincerely,
Joseph Turner
Executive Director
Save Our State
happy me
SUCCESS!
We should do this more often...
sd@narchist
here:
I rec'd this e-mail from SOS and am posting it in the event that you have not received it.
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As you may already know, the Save Our State message board was recently
inaccessible. Beginning in the early morning of May 1st, our opponents
initiated a Distributed Denial of Service Attack. Our opponents
entered in a URL that contained a program that allowed their computers to
continually request information from our server, thus flooding our site.
As a result, our host took our page offline and this resulted in our
message board going "dark" for the day. We are doing our best to
mitigate this problem. Please note that this is an all volunteer effort and
every attempt is being made to upgrade our service to protect ourselves.
However, this takes time and money and we are all in short supply of
that. Your continued patience is appreciated.
Sincerely,
Joseph Turner
Executive Director
Save Our State
http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11028&hl=
sd@narchist
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