«With only 30 minutes to read and debate the proposed 9-page document, the Senate unanimously passed an amendment to the 2002 appropriations budget entitled "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001." The amendment will go to committee for approval either today or tomorrow. The Bush Administration jumped on board yesterday with its own amplified version of the bill. Both pieces of legislation broadly expand law enforcement's wiretapping and surveillance capabilities, giving particularly far-ranging powers in cases of Internet surveillance.»
20.09.01
www.indymedia.org

Compared with the pervasive neoliberal techno-management, the intelligence of the global movement is of little importance. What’s to be done ? We need to invent virtuous revolutionary radical machines to place them in the nodal points of the network, as well as facing the general intellect that administers the imperial meta-machines. Before starting this we need to be aware of the density of the ’intelligence’ that is condensed in each commodity, organization, message and media, in each machine of postmodern society.
Matteo Pasquinelli - Radical machines against the techno-empire. From utopia to network. 02 /2004
www.republicart.net - space of Empire

«President Bush has declared: “you’re either with us or against us.” Here is our answer: We refuse to allow you to speak for all the American people. We will not give up our right to question. We will not hand over our consciences in return for a hollow promise of safety. We say NOT IN OUR NAME. We refuse to be party to these wars and we repudiate any inference that they are being waged in our name or for our welfare. We extend a hand to those around the world suffering from these policies; we will show our solidarity in word and deed(...)»
Statement of Conscience Against War and Repression - 2002 - Not In Our Name

«Congress has given copyright holders expanded subpoena powers similar to those granted to government officials under the USA PATRIOT Act. This means that whether or not you use peer-to-peer file-sharing programs, the recording industry (or anyone who claims to be a rights-holder!) can easily gain access to your personal information - without a judge's oversight.»
File Sharing it's music to our ears
Electronic Frontier Fondation
http://www.eff.org/share/

«In October 2004, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) took the historic step of agreeing to consider the impact of its decisions on developing nations • including assessing the impact of intellectual property law and policy on technological innovation, access to knowledge, and even human health. What's at stake is much more significant than the harmony or disharmony of IP regulations. WIPO decisions affect everything from the availability and price of AIDS drugs, to the patterns of international development, to the communications architecture of the Internet.
The WIPO Development Agenda and Why You Should Care About It.»
Electronic Frontier Fondation
http://www.eff.org/IP/WIPO/dev_agenda/

«Tomorrow US and Ecuadorian government officials will meet in Washington, but the voices of the Ecuadorian people have been heard loud and clear: they do not want the failed model of corporate globalization that the US has been trying to impose throughout Latin America. They saw the way that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) devastated small farmers in Mexico, and they will not allow the same thing to happen in Ecuador.»

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