There's so much happening that I decided to send out a small newsletter to keep you informed. This will be infrequent. At the most once a week. Of course if you don't want to receive this just let me know.

Here we go;-)

rantapod is being featured on the afflatus project site http://www.afflatusproject.com/exhibition/ This is a site that presents projects for handheld and mobile devices. They come out of England. rantapod has also been accepted by iTunes. You can download m4v files direct to your video iPod here http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1491865...

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NO TO THE VIOLENCE IN TEXCOCO, MEXICO and YES TO THE ZAPATISTA CAMPAIGN
FOR DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO! ALL OF CINCO DE MAYO! TOMMORROW.

the virtual sit-in
FLOODNET action

manifestación en línea
FLOODNET

CLICK TO JOIN THE ACION*CLIQUEN AQUI TOMMORROW MAY THE 5th

HERE: http://bang.calit2.net/CincodeMayo

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No a la violencia en TEXCOCO, México y si al la Campaña Zapatista por

LMCC SITELINES 2006 KICKS OFF IN NEW YORK
When is a fire escape a stage? When is the marble adorned lobby of a corporate headquarters an intimate playhouse? When is a ballerina's tutu a sound studio? Only during Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's annual Sitelines series. Beginning this Monday! Free dance downtown in unusual places all summer long.
Full list of performances

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Bay Buchanan goes on CNN and says that Americans are tired of hearing about Katrina victims. Does the Republican media machine have no shame? Here's some blogs who take issue with Bay.

The Story Behind the Zapatista Red Alert as the Other Campaign Arrives at
Zero Hour

http://www.narconews.com/Issue41/article1759.html

By Bertha Rodri'guez Santos and Al Giordano
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Mexico City
May 3, 2006
NarcoNews

MEXICO CITY: From his first statements early this morning on Mexico City's
historic Alameda, Zapatista Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos was clearly

The4thScreen: a global fest of art & innovation for mobile phones focuses on the emerging cultural, technological and social phenomenon of mobile phones.

http://www.thefourthscreen.com/

"We are at the moment when everybody, from the media moguls to Vietnamese peasants - artists, hackers, activists, businesses and governments are trying to grasp the impact, the power, of this new phenomenon.... trying to claim a part of it. There is still a lot of space for great ideas, to fulfill dreams and real needs. I hope the Festival will serve as a catalyst and influence this process... "

Thanks to all People a around the world who particpated in shouting No Illegal Borders!

From Electronic Disturbance Theater and borderlands hacklab
http://bang.calit2.net/sdhacklab/

Minutemne S.O.S Forums go down on May 1st.
02.05.2006 08:37
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/115476.shtml

"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.

http://www.precarity-map.net/

It is the first step of The WebRing for Communication and Militant
Research on Precarity which intends to produce and share knowledge, experiences and materials among labour conflicts and life struggles around precarity.

The P_WR is an open platform and an evolving network connecting
activism already involved in the EuroMayDay mobilisations. Its main aims are: to visualize and intensify the density of militant groups and struggles, to outline a space for debate, research and political action, and finally to construct common practices, concepts and notions for developing a militant co-research “with” (instead of “on”) precarious subjects and their/our struggles.

rantapod-021The internet is an information tool. It's also a mis-information tool. Some of the more gruesome kidnapping videos posted on the internet from Iraq may be faked. Politicians of every stripe see the internet as a tool for re-arranging the truth to make it more to their liking. In the environment of Bush Whitehouse demagoguery we are in a world of George Orwell 1984 style doublethink. In this realm are a whole host of White supremacists, Moslem fundamentalists, and genocide denial groups. One of the most insidious is the Turkish government which refuses to admit the Ottoman genocide against the Armenians. Since I am Armenian I know more about this than the average American. I grew up with stories from my grandmother and all the adults (I was raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, Massachusetts)about the Armenian Genocide. I happened upon a report by an American professor by the name of Justin A. McCarthy.Justin A. McCarthy, a Ph.D professor at the University of Louisville denies the Armenian genocide ever took place. Holocaust denial and genocide denial are increasingly tools of the power elite. Look at George Bush. He's perfected lying and denial to a high art.

Net Community Hacks Cultural Funding System

Vienna, 2 May 2006

“Our much-discussed, game-theory-oriented approach to cultural funding represents a clear rejection of all the Austrian cultural industry’s hegemonic tendencies,” states MANA coordinator Stefan Lutschinger: “This hack of the outmoded jury and committee system opposes every rationalistic funding cut with pure difference, contingency coping and the fruitful development of paradox.”