Electronic Blockade of Mexican Embassy and Co
Bob,

Electronic Blockade of Mexican Embassy and Consulate Websites
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My Experiences Cross-Border Video Streaming With The Zapatistas
san diego indymedia volunteer,

J on cell. 1/2 hr to video streaming. J says very slowly: *T_h_e* *r_o_u_t_e_r* *w_a_s* *c_o_m_p_l_e_t_e_l_y* *d_i_s_a_s_s_e_m_b_l_e_d* *a_n_d* *t_h_e* *p_l_u_g* *w_a_s* *c_h_o_p_p_e_d* *o_f_f*. I'm like, F*CK! J says: *Q*, *i_t_'_s* *g_o_i_n_g* *t_o* *b_e* *o_k*. *T_h_e* *c_o_m_p_a_n_e_r_@_s* *h_e_r_e* *h_a_v_e* *b_e_e_n* *p_e_r_f_o_r_m_i_n_g* *m_i_r_a_c_l_e_s*. *W_e* *p_u_t* *t_h_e* *r_o_u_t_e_r* *b_a_c_k* *t_o_g_e_t_h_e_r* *a_n_d* *o_n_e* *o_f* *t_h_e* *c_o_m_p_a_n_e_r_a_s* *r_e_w_i_r_e_d* *t_h_e* *p_l_u_g*. *W_e* *a_r_e* *b_a_c_k* *o_n* *t_h_e* *i_n_t_e_r_n_e_t*. My vision is clouded with tears. I'm thinking: J is moving mountains. YES!

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Oil Prices Surge. Bush- not my fault.
Joe Barton,

Oil Prices climb. Bush says - it is not my fault. Who believes him?

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Climate/Oaxaca: Virtual Sit-In and Bike Ride
sdimc volunteer,

UPDATE From Rising Tide North America: "The exact location of the G8+5 Climate Summit in Mexico was unknown ... Early sources said Mexico City, but this proved impossible to confirm. We now know that the G8+5 climate meeting is happening in Monterrery, hundreds of miles away from the Alternative Climate Justice Dialogue and Convergence that we initiated and organized in Mexico City. We suspect that the G8+5 meeting was moved away from Mexico's capitol to avoid the sting of popular dissent, not just from us climate activists but more critically from the massive movements for democracy and justice that have convulsed Mexico in recent months and converged in Mexico City. Red Alert Virtual Strike against the G8+5 and Mexican government websites: click here"

The elite of the richest countries are reaping huge profits from dangerous climate change while placing the burden on the most economically disadvantaged, rolling the dice with our life support systems in pursuit of higher profits. The eight richest countries in the world, the G8, plus five developing countries are meeting in Mexico City this week to agree to invest trillions to prop up the fossil fuel economy and to promote carbon trading, which we already know doesn’t work and will just shift the burden further to the Global South. Local activist groups with international participation are poised to resist the G8+5 meeting.

At the same time, President of Mexico Vincente Fox is preparing to send his stormtroopers to attack the Popular Assemblies of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), who have been occupying parts of Oaxaca City for over four months to demand the ouster of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz - a corrupt frontman for corporate globalization - and the release of political prisoners.

Corporate-driven, neoliberal climate change. Corporate-driven, neoliberal suppression of resistance movements for democracy and local control. Different problem. Same enemy.

Solidarity Actions:
--Virtual Sit-In Against the Websites of the G8+5 and the Mexican Government - Tue-Wed Oct 3-4 all day (español)
--Bike Ride for Climate Justice, Meet at Balboa Park Big Fountain - Fri Oct 6 @ 7PM

Contra G8+5 | Oaxaca Facing Imminent Attack
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Bike Ride for Climate Justice Fri Oct 6 7PM
cyclist,

Resist Corporate Climate Change!

Bike Ride for Climate Justice
Friday, October 6 @ 7PM
Big Fountain, Balboa Park (Next to Science Center)

This bike ride is aimed at educating folks about the how the elite of the richest countries are reaping huge profits from dangerous climate change while placing the burden on the most economically disadvantaged, rolling the dice with our life support systems in pursuit of higher profits. The eight richest countries in the world are meeting in Mexico City this week to agree to invest trillions to prop up the fossil fuel economy and to promote carbon trading credits, which we already know don’t work and will just shift the burden further to the developing world. This madness must stop!

Come join us to pass out educational flyers we provide or make your own. Bring signs and loud voices for climate justice!

More info:
 http://contrag8.revolt.org
 http://riseingtidenorthamerica.org
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SDIMC Climate Justice Film Screening and Discussion
sdimc volunteer,

Climate Justice Film Screening/Discussion
Wednesday, September 27 -- 7PM
Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway, Downtown $3-5 donation

Featuring . . .
**The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil**
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and an end to subsidized oil imports, Cuba faced its peak oil crisis a decade before the rest of the world. This film documents the response of Cubans in turning away from a fossil-fuel economy toward community-based, organic farming methods and public and pedal-powered transportation.

With . . .
**Corporate Climate Change Resistance Video Shorts**
Reports from the UK Climate Camp, which shut down the massive Drax power station for a day, and the occupation of a Shell gas station.

**Discussion of the G8+5 Climate Meeting in Mexico City**
The Oct 3-4 G8+5 climate talks to negotiate the new “Kyoto Treaty” are being held in Mexico City. They are expected to rubber stamp the G8's decision to invest trillions in fossil fuels in St Petersberg in July and a reliance on failed market based carbon trading to reduce emissions. The discussion will cover a summary of climate change and its effects, and resistance to the G8+5 meeting in Mexico City.
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Mindwalk 50: Net Neutrality & Israeli Apartheid
U,

Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra and Ted Kennedy on the same page? Yeah, guess so. All in favor of maintaining Net Neutrality. David Gregory gets barked at by GWB about the Geneva Convention. Huey P. Newton reminds us the people have the power set to the theme music from Blade. Audio posted on IMC of "El Enemigo Comun" the common enemy. Burroughs fills in a little time as a "Private Asshole". We close with CBC reporting on what Israeli TV decided not to ban from the people of Israel, mixed with Israeli soldiers shooting rubber bullets at Anti-Apartheid activists in Bilin 11/8/06.

Download Audio Here

Upstart Radio

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"Planet of Slums" Author Speaks in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Mike Davis, author of several best-selling books on urban corruption and apocalypse, spoke at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church Wednesday, September 13 and outlined the basic themes of his new book, "Planet of Slums." His argument was that one billion or more people worldwide now live in slum conditions, that they exist almost totally outside the organized world economy, and that the breakdown of any sense of community and the rise of the "Washington consensus" and the structural adjustment programs it imposed on the Third World have pretty much wiped out any chance for these people to work themselves up economically and better their lives.

Previous Coverage, Incl Audio/Transcript | UN-HABITAT Report: Challenge of Slums | Challenge of Slums: Case Studies | Mike Davis: Planet of Slums | Mike Davis: Slum Ecology | Reviews: 1 2 3 | Interviews: 1 2a 2b 3 (audio)
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Invitation to participate in Re:Transmission
repost from imc-video list,

Invitation to participate in Re:Transmission Event and
Network

Re:Transmission is a gathering of citizen journalists,
video makers, artists, programmers and web producers
who are developing online video distribution tools for
social justice and media democracy.

Dates: Friday 13th – Sunday 15th October, 2006
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sept hacklab! wanna come and share something?
borderlands Hacklab,

We're looking for folks who might want to share something this month at the hacklab on September 20th, 8-10pm, Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway.

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Anti-Nuke Play at Cygnet Theatre
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Michael Frayn's 1998 play "Copenhagen," through September 24 at Cygnet Theatre, deals with the meeting of Werner Heisenberg, German physicist in charge of Hitler's atomic weapons program, with Danish physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in September 1941. The dilemmas raised by the play — the responsibility scientists have for the uses, negative and positive, to which their discoveries are put and whether they owe allegiance to their nations or all humankind — are all too relevant today.
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Hacklab at Voz Alta, Wed night 8-10pm
borderlands Hacklab,

Come to the Hacklab at Voz Alta, Wed August 16th from 8-10PM! We'll be doing an Intro to HTML workshop and an Intro to Ruby on Rails. We'll also have our projector and our PA system on hand in case someone wants to share some music or video projects. Bring something to share, or just bring a question to ask or just come! The monthly hacklab is the 3rd wed of the month at Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway in downtown San Diego.
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Hacklab wed, looking for hardware donations
sdhacklab,

Do you have an old computer that is a year or two old that you'd like to donate to a gret cause because you're buying a new one?
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COOKING PURE DATA
Estudiolivre,

COOKING PURE DATA
COOKIN RAW DATA
RAW IDEAS ?

Converging recipes…
we’re always ready to cook…

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June Open Hack Nite
queer-j brad,

June's Open Hack Nite featured an introduction to video editing, zine making facilitated by Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go, and human-to-human nonhierarchical wireless networking.

July's Open Hack Lab will include more technological skill-sharing - an introduction to old school GNU/Linux (command line/typing as a more powerful alternative to pointing and clicking) - and zine making.

Wednesday, 19 July 2006
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (note later start time)
Voz Alta 1544 Broadway downtown 1 block from City College

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James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency
small WORLD Podcast,

Interview with James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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Cybercrime and Punishment
small WORLD Podcast,

Interview with El Mariachi about the consequences of cybercrime.
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Global Warming Destroys Wine Industry
Amy Goodearth,

Global Warming spells disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar wine industry.

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AIDS (Hype) at 25
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

In early June the corporate media were swept by a wave of hype surrounding the 25th anniversary of Dr. Michael Gottlieb's identification of a new syndrome in Gay men that later became known as AIDS. This article, repeated from the "First Word" column in the July 2006 Zenger's Newsmagazine, examines the hype surrounding "AIDS at 25" and how the AIDS establishment is getting more and more hysterical in the face of greater public indifference.
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solar energy links USA
Lenny Bruce,

review of support groups for solar energy, climate protection, clean air and food securtiy

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July 19th Open Hack Night
lotu5,

Come to our monthly Open Hack Night, the 3rd Wednesday of every month @ Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway from 7-9pm. This month, we'll have workshops including one on how to use the GNU/Linux command line and a zine making table setup by Grrrl Zines A Go-Go!

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More on the broadcast flag
repost,

If you haven’t heard already, the broadcast flag would allow all content producers to effectively disable the record button on any digital device you own.


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Senate poised to destroy the Internet
lotu5,

Network Neutrality — or "Net Neutrality" for short — is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.
Net Neutrality ensures that all users can access the content or run the applications and devices of their choice. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data — not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service.

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.

They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. They want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video — while slowing down or blocking their competitors.

I swear that shit like this really puts a fire under my ass to get community wireless networks going, because the net as we know it is about to disappear, and we're basically at the mercy of rich guy senators doing what their corporate funders tell them to.

Senate committee approves broadcast flag, about to nix net neutrality

 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060628-7151.html
 http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004777.php

The Corruptibles:
 http://www.eff.org/corrupt/
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The Yes Men Showing Flyer
Rachel,

Wednesday 28th of June, 2006 7PM
Film Nite
Voz Alta 1544 Broadway 1 Block from City College Downtown
The Yes Men
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Drive Free - Veggie Fuel for your car
Tonya Kay,

how you can turn Free vegetable oil into diesel fuel for your cars.

No more Expensive Gas stations.

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Live stream of Bruce Sterling tonight
lotu5,

Some members of the borderlands Hacklab will be helping with this live broadcast tonight, which was mostly setup by E.G.S. folks.
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Bush, NSA Kill Democracy
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The revelation that since shortly after 9/11 the federal government has received records of virtually every phone call made in the U.S. is a shocker even by the increasingly jaded standards of the "war on terror" era. There are a number of salient points to make about this program: 1) It is patently illegal on its face. 2) It is a symptom of the Bush administration’s visceral contempt for civil liberties, the right of privacy, judicial due process and anything else that would stand in the way of Bush’s radical-Right blueprint to turn the Presidency into a dictatorship. 3) Bush and the members of his administration have systematically lied to the American people about the extent of their spying on them and sought to punish the journalists who have brought these stories to light. 4) The majority of the American people have become so traumatized by 9/11 and the fear-mongering of this administration that they will go along with this latest offense against their liberties.
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RadioActive Radio Open Mic
RadioActive San Diego,

Join us for our first ever live broadcasted OPEN MIC! Poetry, live music, food, drinks, and revolutionary home-made media making will be available for your pleasure and participation. Hope to see you there!


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borderlands hacklab photos, may openHackNight
lotu5,

Some photos from the open hack night in may. Presentation by radica radio about digital audio editing and Grrrl Zines A Go-Go on making zines, including a whole zine making setup. Jake of Lying Media Bastards, a show on radioActive sanDiego, dj'ed.
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SDIMC Cycling Film Nite/Critical Mass Ride
sdimc volunteer,

On Wednesday, May 24, The San Diego Independent Media Center will be showing two cycling films directed by legendary filmaker Ted White: “Return of the Scorcher” and “(We Aren’t Blocking Traffic) We Are Traffic!”

7:00PM Wednesday May 24, Voz Alta 1544 Broadway - one block from City College/Downtown. $3-5 donation requested

BRING YOUR BICYLES! (and a light) Critical Mass Ride Follows at ~ 8:30PM.

Check out the NEW (and seriously under construction) San Diego Critical Mass website:
 http://sandiegocriticalmass.org

To get involved in website/organizing activities, write to
 cycle@sandiegocriticalmass.org

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