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Call for an Anti-Capitalist Hacker Bloc (english) http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=48257&group=webcast by hacktivists united 1:10pm Thu Jun 21 '01 (Modified on 10:53pm Thu Jun 21 '01) June 25-27 IMF World Bank Meeting NOW is the time for hackers to take up the struggle AGAINST capitalism and FOR a world of freedom, creativity, care and cooperation. No longer can we allow our talents to be abused and manipulated by corporations who want to coopt hackers to use as their 'security teams'. The IMF and World Bank are having an online meeting June 25 - 27. At their meetings, they present and decide on policies that affect millions of people all over the world. But those millions of people have no say in these decisions. The policies of the IMF and World Bank involve imposing Structural Adjustment Programs (politically motivated domestic legislation) for countries to which they give loans. (Note that these loans are usually to pay off other loans, or to fund 'development projects' that benefit only multinational corporations, and destroy local communities) These policies are imperialist, racist, environmentally destructive and economically unsound. It is time for hackers to take a stand against these fucked up institutions. This is a call for hackers to attack the June 25-27 online meeting of the IMF and World Bank by any means necessary and to SHUT IT DOWN. We will not be the lackeys of these corporate thugs any longer. Rise up in resistance. Hack the IMF and World Bank online meeting! add your own comments Linked articles: Call for an Anti-Capitalist Hacker Bloc (english) (full story) Hactivism yeah! (english) by Yuri Tremblay 1:36pm Thu Jun 21 '01 I know a lot of people have a grudge against denial of access as civil disobedience. I think ive got something better to suggest, how about combatting lies with truth? NATO was killing civilians and it says it wars only on Milosevic? OOPS! theres a link to dead bodies on *favorite corporate newscaster* `s website. A corporate news site depicts protesters as mindless thugs? OOPS! a link to activists website that clearly tells what they stand for. Infowar, my friends Hactivism yeah! (english) by Yuri Tremblay 1:43pm Thu Jun 21 '01 I know a lot of people have a grudge against denial of access as civil disobedience. I think ive got something better to suggest, how about combatting lies with truth? NATO was killing civilians and it says it wars only on Milosevic? OOPS! theres a link to dead bodies on *favorite corporate newscaster* `s website. A corporate news site depicts protesters as mindless thugs? OOPS! a link to activists website that clearly tells what they stand for. Infowar, my friends Play chess (english) by Harel Barzilai 1:47pm Thu Jun 21 '01 info@economicdemocracy.org To play chess one must thing more than one step ahead. But let's even think one single step ahead. Suppose it's shut down. Then what? You surely don't think that that would be the end of world capitalism? This is not to say the idea can no merits at all...it IS to say that we had BETTER have some ideas of 'then what" by which I mean POSITIVE STEPS....revolution (which as we know, "not overnight comes revolution, but rather it's an evolution") is not won by only countering this and countering that...we have to create positive institutions. We at EconomicDemocracy.org have some ideas. Others have voiced some ideas too. Is there a sub-section of the forums where long-term planning of alternative institutions can be done? By creating alternative institutions I mean changing the facts on the ground in terms of economic power which counters corporate economic power, for example. Or creating alternative-MASS-media with a reach of millions so we're not asking "how can we get CNN to cover us fairly" because millions and tens of millions would already be watching/listening to alternative media. Those are the kinds of goals that we need to think about accomplishing. Yes, there is a role for fighting WB meetings and CNN coverage, but we must go way beyond that.. Peace, HB Please CC email info@economicdemocracy.org EconomicDemocracy.org re: chess? (english) by kevin 3:05pm Thu Jun 21 '01 kevin_mcnicholl@hotmail.com "To play chess one must thing more than one step ahead. But let's even think one single step ahead. Suppose it's shut down. Then what? You surely don't think that that would be the end of world capitalism? " there are actually two ways to win a game of chess, firstly there is the one you just stated, outwit them at their own game. however in the game of global capitalism we have started off with fewer bits, and they are cheating bastards. therefore the only way to combat this is to go with the second way to win, dont allow the other player to think about the next move, by stopping meetings like this. www.snakewood.homepad.com against enclosure: build the new commons (english) by hydrarchist 3:28pm Thu Jun 21 '01 ECD actions may have some symbolic reasonance but the truth is that FloodNet etc. are tragically flawed and ineffective, more likeluy to cause blockages at the user's own end of the network than the target. Constructing an infrastructural commons seems to me a more useful applicatio of technical resources - writing software under the GPL, supporting the FSF, scanning in usful content, essays, images, developing decntralised peer to peer systems such as Freenet and Gnutella.... these are the processes that threaten capital's cosy relationship with technology. We must politicise the enclosure of intellectual property. "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goosefrom off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose. The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours andmine. The poor and wretched don't escape If they conspire the law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back." Anon, 1821 for hydrarchist (english) by Harel Barzilai 4:35pm Thu Jun 21 '01 hb@economicDemocracy.org Sounds like we've got significant overlaps in vision -- could you drop me a note at the above email on how you can be reachead -- we at EconomicDemocracy.org are working on strategic visions along these lines.. Peace & Democracy, Harel Barzilai EconomicDemocracy.org the people wont support hacking....... (english) by fpi 5:49pm Thu Jun 21 '01 ...and they're watching. www.freepressinternational.com If you want your suggestion heard... (english) by J.R. 6:35pm Thu Jun 21 '01 ...an even better place to post your request would be on the newsgroups: alt.2600 alt.hackers alt.hacker alt.security etc... I heard somewhere (english) by none 10:02pm Thu Jun 21 '01 I heard somewhere that if someone looked, they could find an email bomb program that sends thousands of bunk emails to certain targeted people. if someone had this program, i suppose they could use it on the email addresses of those people participating in the online summit. i'm not sure though. some info (english) by none 10:05pm Thu Jun 21 '01 "Sixteen tools have been identified as those actively distributed among attackers, with many others being discussed or suspected of already being deployed. One such tool is called the EvilPing, believed to have been created especially for this war. The tool launches a "ping of death attack" that, when utilized by several users against the same target, crashes the system. Then there is QuickFire, an attack tool that sends 32,000 e-mails to the victim from what appears as the same address. Used simultaneously by multiple attackers, the tool crashes an e-mail server. QuickFire strength is that it does not relent, continually firing off thousands of e-mails until the server is shut down and the address blocked. It is believed to be the tool used for hack attacks on the Israeli Foreign Ministry site and its webmaster’s e-mail address. " this quote was found on this web site: http://www.wired.com/news/lycos/0%2C1306%2C40449%2C00.html I've Got An Idea (english) by upton 10:53pm Thu Jun 21 '01 To me, the idea of hacking the WB's online meeting is elitist and unproductive - only those with the resources and the know-how will be able to participate, and crashing the meeting really won't accomplish anything, as Harel alluded to in his posts. Perhaps we should be taking our message to the people living in our own communities. Chances are that the people living in your vicinity don't even know what the WB is, and if they do, they're probably not well informed thanks to the media. So here's my idea: take local issues and struggles and tie them into global economic issues. I guarantee you'll be able to link the building of that new private prison in your town to WB policies and neoliberalism in general. While I fully support the hackers, the rest of us who won't be able to do so should be taking it to our friends, family, neighbors, anyone who wants to listen. Just an idea. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net