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Vol.5, no.17
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Dissension Convention at Postmasters
via networked_performance:
A Transatlantic Collaborative Multimedia Protest Jam
Dissension Convention will coincide with the Republican Convention in New
York. 10 pairs of net/digital artists from the Americas and Europe will
create live, online multimedia performances. These will be projected at
RNC NODE Postmasters Gallery, as well as by other appointed NY platforms
in 'store windows, bars.'
5 days of live mix performances, online in real-time from 29th August-2nd
September between 12noon and 6pm (NY time) via Furtherfield's
VisitorsStudio.
If you are viewing from home you can visit versions mirrored on the
artists' websites (check project URL for updates).
* If you wish to mirror this event on your site please target this file
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/dissensionconvention.swf
Programme Participants
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 04:47 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/dissension_conv.html
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"the largest middle-class pay cut in history"
[photo courtesy of Bushville]
via Sivacracy.net:
While We Were Freaking Out over Insults to a War Hero …
Kos reminds us that Bush just slashed the incomes of six million
hard-working Americans. Did Wolf Blitzer devote a show to this? Bill
O'Reilly? Did the NYTimes run an op-ed about it? Did I blog about it? No
on all counts.
This is sick, people. Democrats and all Americans should be outraged over
the ways the Bush administration sticks it to workers. But we can't even
get the conversation going. > snip! <
via Daily Kos:
I want to focus today on just one of these overlooked outrages, one which
will negatively affect millions of Americans. Nancy Pelosi quite rightly
describes it as "the largest middle-class pay cut in history." But because
of the all-consuming obsession with how much blood Kerry shed for our
country, even many liberal blogs didn't cover Bush's outrageous overtime
takeaway, which went into effect on Monday. Pelosi's office estimates that
as many as 6 million Americans may lose overtime pay as a result of the
administration's actions. The Economic Policy Institute concludes that,
contrary to Bush and Elaine Chao's assertions, few low-income earners will
gain overtime as a result of the changes, and that many low-income
employees who currently earn overtime will be vulnerable to a total loss
of OT benefits. Moreover, all workers in a number of professions,
including cooks, preschool employees, and daycare workers, will almost
certainly lose any overtime protections. > snip! <
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 03:59 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/the_largest_mid.html
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Bush Network Looking for Links
from the creator of BushNetwork:
I put up a website several months ago called http://www.bushnetwork.com,
as kind of a world petition, a long list; a digital archive of links all
in one place, as many dedicated websites against George Bush as I could
find. I'm in need of some help from interested compilers to add more
links. It's becoming blurry for me now and I'm still under 2000. If the
list were to scroll through 10,000 links, it would be a fine collection. A
collaborative statement that I think would resonate with the world. If
only 1000 people were to add 10 links each, we could be there in no time.
If you would be willing to help out, you don't even need to login to start
adding links. Just enter in the site name and the address and it's in…
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 03:37 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/bush_network_lo.html
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Bushville
via RNC Watch:
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign has set up its Bushville
encampment in Brookyn at
802 Myrtle Ave on land owned by the Mt. Zion Christian Church of Christ
Disciples Incorporated. (To get there take the G train to
Myrtle-Willoughby Aves). Photos.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 01:20 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/bushville.html
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Cityrag blogs the RNC
via City Rag:
RNC Activist and Protest Guide (update) - top picks for comprehesive event
calendars for protests being held in New York:
- RNC Not Welcome
- Not in Our Name
- Counter Convention
paper the city! free RNC protest flyers:
- NO RNC posters.org (Swoon's great poster is shown here)
- RNC Not Welcome flyers
more info and links:
- Anti-Bush/GOP t-shirts
- Direct Action Handbook
- RNC Protest Guide
- Village Voice info
- Move-on.org
- CityRag's first guide
- CityRag's second guide
- Voting is better than Crack!
- GammaBlaBlog's protest links
- Massive August 31st direct action
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 01:17 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/cityrag_blogs_t.html
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Hackers Unite/Log On
[image courtesy CrimethInc.]
via Wired:
[…] So it's no surprise that hardened electronic activists are planning
to jam up the servers of GeorgeWBush.com, GOP.com and related websites,
once the Republican National Convention gets underway Aug. 29.
"We want to bombard (the Republican sites) with so much traffic that
nobody can get in," said CrimethInc, a member of the so-called Black Hat
Hackers Bloc. It's one of several groups planning to distribute software
tools to reload Republican sites over and over again. These FloodNet
programs are similar to hackers' distributed denial-of-service attacks,
which overwhelm a server with thousands and thousands of simultaneous
requests for information.
But some activists are condemning the planned attacks, saying they violate
the principles of free speech that protesters rely on for their
demonstrations.
"If you feel that you must shut up someone through intimidation or false
accusations or any other method – you are not relying on the superiority
of the truth," The Pull, co-founder of the online political action group
Hacktivismo, wrote in an e-mail. "People can not condemn censorship and
then embrace it."
The point of the electronic demonstrations isn't to take down a site,
according to Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance
Theater, or EDT, which is releasing a FloodNet program of its own. Unlike
hackers' denial-of-service attacks, which often hijack computers against
their users' will, EDT's _JavaScript-based software depends on how many
people use the program. "It's a way to let people around the world gather
and let their presence be felt," Dominguez said.
Not that he would mind if a Republican server just happened to crash along
the way. In 2002, at the EDT's direction, 43,000 people flooded the site
of the World Economic Forum during its meeting in New York. The
organization's website went offline for several hours following the
demonstration.
The Black Hat Hackers Bloc is hoping to cause a whole lot more trouble
when the Republicans start to gather in New York. The groups will be
targeting not only GOP computers, but "e-mail, faxes and phones, too,"
CrimethInc said, as well as unspecified "financial disruption."
Officials from the Republican Party and from Computer Horizons, the
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, firm responsible for network services at the
GOP convention, did not respond to requests to comment for this article.
The attacks during the Republican convention may be just the beginning,
however. At the Hackers on Planet Earth gathering in New York City, one
speaker promised attendees, "You will learn how to infiltrate
organizations like the RNC, how to look for and find security holes, and
how mischief and mayhem is achieved."
links:
Hackers on Planet Earth
CrimethInc. - Ex-Workers' Collective
Information Security News: Hackers Take Aim at GOP
From: InfoSec News (isn_at_c4i.org)
Date: Aug 18 2004
'Hacktivists' Log On: Police are on guard against threats of electronic
chaos
By Sarah Childress, Newsweek
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 01:06 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/hackers_unitelo.html
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Rock Bush Out of Office
FRIDAY AUGUST 27
9 PM UNTIL BUSH ISN'T PRESIDENT ANYMORE
@
131 ESSEX STREET
6TH FLOOR
DANCING, BEER, CARRYING ON
I'M VOTING BUSH OUT STICKERS, KNAPSACKS, BUTTONS, AND T-SHIRTS FOR SALE
AND FOR FREE
HELP SHOW THE RNC WHOSE CITY THIS IS
$10 DONATION AT THE DOOR, MORE IF/LESS IF: GIVE WHAT YOU CAN
Hosted by: Anna Blume, Nancy Brooks Brody, Andrea Dailey, Stacey D'Erasmo,
Teri Dewhirst, Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Robin Haueter, Faye Hirsch,
Barbara Hughes, Sarah East Johnson, Bill Jones, Zoe Leonard, Emily Miller,
David Nelson, Beth Povinelli, Carrie Yamaoka
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 12:44 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/rock_bush_out_o.html
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culturekitchen blogs the RNC: All You Need to Know
via Liza's c u l t u r e k i t c h e n:
"With all what's going on, let me break it down to the basics…"
From "MAIN EVENTS ORGANIZERS" to legal advice "WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AS A
PROTESTER" to "ARTS, PROTEST AND OTHER ACTS OF POLITICAL MEDIATION"
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 12:25 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/culturekitchen_.html
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Billionaires For Bush To-Do List
via Eyebeam Reblog:
Billionaires For Bush: RNC Extravaganza
"Formal Billionaire attire required at all events unless otherwise noted.
Choose from a croquet extravaganza, coronation disco or the Million
Billionaire March."
Official Calendar
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 12:20 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/billionaires_fo.html
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AmBUSHED By the Axis of Eve
The Axis of Eve formed the front lines at last night's AmBUSH! opening at
Van Brunt Gallery. Literally. Four abreast in camo and panties, they
attracted the attention of passing cabs and the odd squad car. Flesh and
g-strings: that must be why those cops were parked there for hours, right?
Bullying the gallery owners to clear the sidewalk must have been some kind
of excuse…
via Axis of Eve:
The Axis of Eve is a coalition of brazen women on a mission to EXPOSE and
DEPOSE President Select George W. Bush and his deceitful administration.
Convinced that effective political action can be irreverent and exciting,
we have launched a titillating campaign of TRUTH-FLASHING coordinated
around our provocative line of protest panties.
This campaign will culminate at the Republican National Convention in NYC
in September, where over 100 Eves and Adams will perform a MASS FLASH (of
our protest panties) to create a media spectacle that lays bare the
shameful tactics of the Bush administration and boldly demands an end to
political cover-up….
more on the Axis of Eve:
Axis of Eve is just beating around the Bush, by Lizzy Ratner
The New York Observer via SFChronicle, May 23, 2004
Axis of Eve, by Rene Loth
Boston Globe via Common Dreams, July 27, 2004
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 12:05 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/ambushed_by_the.html
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The Evil-Doers (Remix)
via MTAA:
Media Release
For Immediate Release: August 24, 2004
Contact: MTAA, T.Whid
[email protected]
http://www.mteww.com/dc911/
DC 9/11 - The Evildoers' Remix video to be released August 30th, 2004
New York, NY - DC 9/11 - The Evildoers' Remix, a guerilla edit of the
pro-Bush propaganda film DC 9/11 - A Time of Crisis, will be released to
the internet public on Monday, August 30th, 2004 to coincide with the
opening of The Republican National Convention. The video is a
collaboration between new media art duo MTAA, video artist bodyatomic and
musician/DJ tinydiva.
Using careful editing, on-screen commentary, new special effects, added
footage, and an original musical score DC 9/11 - The Evildoers' Remix
exposes the not-so-subtle right-wing spin of its source material in
hilarious and disturbing ways.
Available August 30th, 2004. Download here: http://www.mteww.com/dc911/
Free screening
when:
Monday, August 30th, 8PM sharp!
where:
Postmasters
459 West 19th St. (at 10th Ave.)
New York, NY 10011
The video will be screened with live audio accompaniment by tinydiva to
coincide with its release. The screening is part of RNC NODE organized by
Postmasters gallery.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 11:30 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/the_evildoers_r.html
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Freedom Salon
THE FREEDOM SALON
August 28 September 4, 2004
Opening reception: August 28th, 6-8 pm
Deitch Projects, 26 Wooster Street, New York
Artists:
Siemon Allen, Andrea Geyer, New Humans,
Ghada Amer, Wayne Gonzales, Yoko Ono,
Devendra Banhart, Sharon Hayes, Clare Rojas,
Andrea Bowers, It Can Change, Martha Rosler,
AA Bronson, Alfredo Jaar, (r)™ark,
Enrique Chagoya, Jo Jackson, Julia Scher,
Paul Chan, An-My Le, Taryn Simon,
Mel Chin, Cristobal Lehyt, Dread Scott,
Sue Coe, Mark Lombardi, Nancy Spero,
Critical Art Ensemble, Larry Mantello, The Yes Men,
Nancy Davenport, Barry McGee, Allyson Vieira,
Christoph Draeger, Carlos Motta, Olav Westphalen,
Sam Durant, Dave Muller, Krzsyztof Wodiczko,
Harrell Fletcher, (list subject to change)
Opening two days prior to the Republican National Convention, as part of
the city-wide Imagine Festival, this salon-style exhibition provides an
open forum for the _expression and consideration of critical issues facing
our nation, and the world at large, at this significant cultural moment.
Using art as a form of collective response, the artwork included in this
exhibition, made in a variety of media, is politically and socially
conscious. In most cases, artists contributed work of their choosing or
created a new piece that directly or indirectly relates to the following
themes: freedom, democracy, justice, community, prosperity, and future,
with the assumption that these are all contested notions….
This exhibition is co-curated by Apsara DiQuinzio and Tina Kukielski, and
is part of the Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues, & Ideas, a citywide
cultural festival, designed to inspire, instigate, and support civic
engagement through the arts. For further information please visit
www.imagine04.org
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 10:45 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/freedom_salon.html
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Tonight: Watch What We Say!
Tonight! Enter gallery…
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 10:29 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/tonight_watch_w.html
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Anti-Bush Banner: Streaming Video
Watch streaming video footage of the action. (courtesy ACT UP: Republican
National Convention Protests)
via The Village Voice:
Conventional Wisdom: Sound Check
On the streets and in courtrooms, convention preliminaries are under way
August 24th, 2004 12:15 PM
"New York is awash in pre-convention antics as the opening for the GOP
confab approaches. In Grand Central Station, in the midst of rush hour
last Tuesday evening, anti-war protesters unleashed a 15-foot-high giant
banner, suspended by helium balloons. "No Bush Lies Wars," the banner
read, and commuters applauded as it rose toward the cavernous ceiling. The
banner stayed aloft for three hours while Metro-North police waited for
the helium to escape."
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 10:16 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/antibush_banner_2.html
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