Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, takes a look at the disturbing possibility that the incredible spike in killer earthquakes and super-storms during the Bush administration is not coincidental.

The "Eclectic Tech Carnival" is calling all women to participate in the 6th
annual /Eclectic Tech Carnival in Linz. A unique computer skill-share. A
several day-night carnival of exchanging computer related skills for women by women.

Stop the baby killers

This book would not attempt to be the definitive statement on Indymedia. Rather, it would be an overview of some of the triumphs and struggles of the network over the past five-and-a-half years. Its entries would range from dramatic, stream-of-thought, first-person pieces to more analytic chapters on the meaning of Indymedia. The book, while thoughtful, would avoid being overly academic and would be graphic/picture heavy.

Bay of La Paz and Gulf of California, the most bio-diverse body of water on Earth. Over a thousand species are This is a brief summary of our groups’ efforts, actions and progress towards saving the involved, many being highly endangered and several on the verge of extinction.

In an interview with Linux P2P, Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software movement, has argued that since only "some Creative Commons licenses are free licenses" it is necessary to reject Creative Commons as a whole. Other people in the free software community don’t share the optimistic view that at least "some Creative Commons licenses are free licenses" (see  http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html).

The principal freedom Iraq and the rest of the world will intentionally be denied.

Free software, Big Oil and Venezuelan politics

This month, a new law goes into effect in Venezuela mandating that all government agencies migrate their information technology infrastructure to free, or open-source, software. While it has not been uncommon in recent years for nations in the developing world to cast a leery eye on the licensing fees and technological dependency associated with relying on proprietary software made by Western corporations, Venezuela's determination to move everything to free software may be the most extreme example yet of the emerging global politics of open source.

Comisia Europeana a decis suspendarea Programului YOUTH in Romania pana la reorganizarea sau infiintarea unei noi Agentii Nationale in domeniul tineretului. Actuala agentie, ANSIT, este acuzata de "mismanagement [...] which has reached a level that now demands such a radical step."

This message is a call for YOUR participation in the 2005 edition of the Hackmeeting from 21-23 October in Menorca (Spain). We are looking forward receiving proposals for nodes of workshops, activities, debates, meetings, etc. in order to create a network of activities and encounters around hacktivism, cyberspace, telecommunications and its technopolitical dimensions.

I am of the generation that on hearing that someone has been on a “mission”, immediately thinks either of “Mission Impossible” or of the many Irish missionaries that plied the world with Christian ideology, mostly well-intentioned, in the name of helping poor people. I am just back from a human rights mission to Tunisia. This is my report. I cannot say which of the above it more closely approximates, if any, but my firm intention is to add another voice to those who argue that civil society must take strong action at the upcoming WSIS PrepCom 3 and Tunis Summit on the human rights situation in Tunisia.

The text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao - sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for "divulging state secrets abroad" - shows that Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. provided China's state security authorities with details that helped to identify and convict him, according to Reporters Without Borders.

Data retention is no solution!

The European ministers of Justice and the European Commission want to keep all telephone and internet traffic data of all 450 million Europeans. If you are concerned about this plan, please sign the petition.

Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement by Benjamin Mako Hill ( mako@atdot.cc)

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:39:49 -0400

Calling all anti-capitalists!! “Capitalism and Other Kids’ Stuff” – a popular new film, which argues the anti-capitalist case in simple language, and which has won much acclaim in recent months - is now re-edited and can be viewed and downloaded as a BitTorrent at www.socialist-tv.com

The aim of RE:activism is to bring together academics, activists and artists exploring the liberatory possibilities of new media technologies. As an offshoot of Re:Activism conference, there will be a Sonic Tags workshop doing a bit of city-programming, filling parts of Budapest with unusual sounds, words, and atmospheres by creating event triggered, localized broadcasts of poetic instances.

Mass-produced computers can KILL Microsoft and free the world's computer users. They'll be too cheap to accommodate MS Windows -- MS's bread and butter. Computers will go the way of TVs and VCRs -- cheap offshore (non-USA) production. They'll be cheap, simple, general-purpose (FREE SOFTWARE), all-electronic (no disk drive) -- in other words, real electronic computers, finally. READ ABOUT THE OPENING SHOT, MOBILIS, FIRED IN BANGALORE, INDIA, ON MAY 26, 2005.

Every year for the last four years, Free Networkers from around the world have organised summits, the last one being the Freifunk.net Summer Convention 2004 in Djursland, Denmark where Free Networkers, free infrastructure pragmatists and community network builders from 32 countries got together, shared ideas, made plans and forged alliances.

On March 8 2005, International Women’s day, the Women's Information Technology Transfer (WITT) launched a portal site to link women's organizations and feminist advocates for the internet in Eastern and Central Europe.

On April 1, 2005 there will be a one-day conference/meeting in Paris to analyze the relationship between property and innovation, knowledge and creation, and to discuss competing models of the “information commons” on the one hand and “intellectual property” on the other. The meeting is coordinated by the French non-profit organisation Vecam, and will take place at ENST (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications), 46 Street Barrault, 75013 Paris.

Conscientious Objector Witnessed Abuse, Killing of Iraqi Detainees at Abu Ghraib .

For a Real Independent Journalism: criticism to the Indymedia Network.
Collective Indymedia Santiago. (Official notice from the Collective Indymedia Santiago about it’s imminent expulsion from the Indymedia Network).