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Guy Debord's Widow Threatens NYU Professor with Copyright Violation

Guy Debord's Widow Threatens NYU Professor with Copyright Violation

Professor Is Accused of Infringing the Copyright of a Man Who Opposed
Copyright

By ANDREA L. FOSTER,

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i33/33a01603.htm

Guy Debord, a Marxist philosopher who died in 1994, was no fan of
private property. But apparently his widow is one.


Arizona legislation will outlaw MEChA and Mexican-American Studies

What is crazy below is that no "irony" is found in the folks pushing this measure - American Values (what is that?) and even more "no race based" presence in schools...except "European Civ" (which is never put forth as "white race based" trajectory) - by any logic that should be outlawed as well ;-]!

p.s. They are going to start confiscating books!
[Now that is an American Value!]


Text Message Service for Activists Subpoenaed by New York City

TxtMob, a group SMS service and its creator, Tad Hirsch, a long-time MobileActive colleague, have ben subpoenaed by the city of New York to turn over information about TxtMob users and activists who participated in the 2004 protests against the Republican National Convention there.


Virtual Sit-In Against Nano Bio War Profiteers

Virtual Sit-In Against Nano/Bio War Profiteers!
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///please fwd and spread the action!///

This Nano-Virtual-Sit-In is being performed on the 5th anniversary of
the war on Iraq. We have chosen biotech and nanotech corporations and
organizations as our targets, because their science is driven by the war
and drives the war.


The politics of 'Facebook'

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With friends like these ...
Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But
you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking
site

Tom Hodgkinson
The Guardian,


'As We Move' Container Workshop Series

Jamaica Call for Workshop Facilitators

Container Project is inviting individuals and small groups of digital
artists, filmmakers, musicians and creative computer practitioners,
with an interest in community and network practices to participate in
the 5th Anniversary Workshop Series hosted at The Container in Jamaica
in 2008.


Tenured 'Hacktivists' from Wall Street Journal

categories:

Tenured 'Hacktivists'

from Wall Street Journal
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010862

Back in 1998, the New York Times carried a story on "hacktivism," which it defined as "computer hacking . . . as a means to a political end." Online vandals had broken into government computer systems in China, India, Indonesia, Serbia and Croatia, and inserted their own messages.


SIGN THE *nobordercamp* PETITION

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to drop Juan's charges!**
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This petition will be sent to the US Attorney who is prosecuting Juan's
case. Juan's indictment hearing is scheduled in just a few days, on
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