(Italiano) Pubblico un articolo scritto per la rivista Loop e tratto dal mio intervento a WorldWideRome Nel 2010 Johanna Blakley, direttrice di un think-tank sui media all’Università della California, ha rivelato di fronte a una platea nutrita della Ted conference che, l'industria della moda, a differenza di altri ambiti del settore creativo non produce valore a partire dalla protezione della proprietà intellettuale: non solo la maggior parte dei capi e accessori venduti non sono coperti da copyright, è proprio questa mancanza di protezione che permette al sistema di essere profittevole.

NEWS

First radio M2M announcement from the Action camp Ter Apel by Mohamed Alsaid Salman from Bagdad, in Arab

Thursday 17th of May Open Air Day in the Camp with live radio M2M!!

 

M2M’s director Jo van der Spek drove to the action camp of undocumented migrants in Ter Apel on Monday 14th of May to give communication support to the growing movement of refugees on the street.  The camp is now a week old and is growing to hundreds of people including women and children. As soon as we have power and connectivity we can start streaming and publishing the news directly from the action site.

More than 200 people from Iraq, Somalia, Iran and other countries have come to the common ground next to the deportation complex in the North of Holland.

They demand the right to live a decent life in the Netherlands, at least as long as they cannot return to their country for security reasons. The current government believes they can return safely and voluntarily. To force them they are denied all basic human rights like shelter, health care, etc.

You can support this movement by:

- spreading the news

joining on line:
www.vluchtelingenopstraat.blogspot.com

http://stil2.wordpress.com

- joining M2M on  facebook at

or making a donation for communication:

Bank account:
39.02.71.918 St. M2M, Amsterdam
Triodos Bank, Postbus 55, 3700 AB Zeist
IBAN: NL03 TRIO 0390 2719 18
BIC: TRIONL2U

 

This post will be updated as more statistics become available. Otherwise I want to ignore the PP for a while, although it’s difficult being currently in Germany.

As predicted the Pirate Party surpassed the 5% hurdle yesterday in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW), winning an estimated 7.8% of the vote. This is their fourth successful election since the breakthrough in Berlin last September. That boost entirely changed their fortunes; just two weeks beforehand they had scored under 2% in the regional elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a figure around which they orbited in polls in Bremen, Rheinland-Pflaz and Hamburg earlier in 2011. But since Berlin they have entered regional Parliaments in Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein, and the NRW result is of particular significance due to its size – with 18 million inhabitants it is Germany’s most populous region by far, and has a greater population than all the former GDR regions combined.

Foreign media coverage understandably focuses on the scale of the CDU’s defeat and its consequences for Angela Merkel – its 26% represents its worst result in NRW ever – and the attainment of an absolute majority by an SPD-led coalition with the Greens. Once again, however,  the Greens have failed to capitalise on the weakness of the government and the return to prominence of environmentalist themes after Fukujima. Once the voter analysis comes in the reasons for this will be clearer, but it is certain that the alternate pole of attraction constituted by the Pirates is in part responsible.

Analysis of the PP Vote in Schleswig Holstein

Research produced after last week’s election in Schleswig-Holstein sourced the PP votes as follows:

CDU 14,000

FDP 14,000

Green: 13,000

SPD 10,000

Left 6,000

Others 6,000

Non-voters 11,000

First-Time Voters 6,000

Source: Infratest-dimap.

An analysis of voter choices correlated to social position suggested that the Pirates strongest constituencies are amongst workers and the unemployed, where they took 14% and 15% of the vote respectively. Interestingly the two parties most likely to lose votes to the PP were the Greens and the FDP (liberals), but the basic lesson of this research is the capacity of the PP so far to gather voters from across the ideological spectrum.

Copyright Bunfight

In response to the electoral emergence of the PP the debate around copyright in Germany has restarted in earnest. On Thursday the weekly newspaper Die Zeit published a letter titled “We are the Creators” where they condemned the ‘profane theft’ of intellectual property – characterised as a ‘great achievement of bourgeois freedom against the dependency of feudalism’ – defended the role of the publishers and other intermediaries commercially exploiting copyrights, and decried those who would use the net as an excuse for ‘stinginess and malice’. The coordinator of the letter campaign is himself not a ‘creator’ but rather a literary agent, suggesting a simple, albeit cynical, explanation for the vehement justification of the publisher’s function. In any case more than 3000 ‘creators’ signed up to the cause.

How such generalised reprimand of the public will be digested amongst the hoi polloi remains to be seen. History may have created a class of authors and publishers with the coming of bourgeois society, but it might be that in the digital era the masses have decided that they themselves are creators, and that the time for a further alteration of property and power relations has arrived …

For the moment however the talk is not of a revolution in property rights,  but rather copyright reform: ‘We are the Citizens‘. Likewise the PP’s current copyright policy is distinctly moderate:

• shorten the term of protection from the (current) life of the author plus seventy years to life plus ten;
• terminate all  transfers to an intermediary for exploitation after 25 years, returning the rights to the author;
• make any licensing assignment valid for those media known at the time
• stop prosecuting/pursuit of filesharers on the basis that it is merely reflects the current industry’s incapacity to satisfy demand.

Henceforth the policies of all political parties as regards the internet and communications will be a matter of public scrutiny, and irrespective of how one may feel about the Pirates in a more general sense, for this at least we have them to thank. Effectively they have attached a cost to coziness between political parties and the vested interests who would seek to have the net regulated for their profit. Last autumn members of the CDU were still floating proposals for a local version of the Hadopi/3 Strikes regime, but in the light of the election results, and the scale of the protests against ACTA, such a proposal is now clearly toxic and can be excluded.

While the political strategies of the copyright lobby find themselves blocked, the situation in the courts remains a concern. In April, for example, the regional court in Hamburg found in favour of the German rightsholders organisation GEMA, imposed a form of secondary liability (Störerhaftung) on Google  for works posted on Youtube without authorisation. The court required that they institute measures in addition their existing content-id system to keep works off the site, specifically a word filter which would block other versions of songs for which GEMA hold the rights, and that GEMA are not obliged to use content-id as a means of controlling infringing uses. The continuing failure of GEMA and Google to reach an agreement on royalties means that pop music available on the platform elsewhere in the world remains blocked on the German site. Other authorised services such as Hulu and Netflix are not available either.

Domestic Trifles Over: Please Return to the Economic Meltdown

With the elections are over discussion will return to the Eurozone clusterf*ck, a matter to which most Germans seem to pay little heed at least while the economy remains strong. This week however the matter may receive some attention as social movements mobilise for demonstrations against the European Central Bank and financial sector in Frankfurt, protests already forbidden by the city…

segnaliamo questo lavoro difficile,
realizzato da alcuni compagni che sono stati a filmare in Siria di recente.

Siria:Rivoluzione Occupazione o Guerra Santa?

Cosa succede in Siria? Il paese dove secondo il culto cristiano avvene la conversione di San Paolo e dove fino a pochi mesi fa tutte le religioni monoteiste convivevano senza problemi. Il documentario più che fornire risposte intende stimolare la riflessione attraverso le testimonianze di Politici dell’opposizione,Giornalisti, Uomini dele istituzioni politiche e religiose e cittadini comuni in una cornice in cui la tensione sembra crescere quotidianamente e le rivendicazioni sociali che hanno scosso il paese all’inizio delle proteste lasciano il campo a uno scontro armato tra fazioni islamiche integraliste ed esercito regolare.
I governi occidentali, le lobby del petrolio e deI traffico d’armi, i grandi media main streaming che ruolo hanno??

2012,betacam,36′,colore
Siria: Rivoluzione, Occupazione o Guerra Santa?
Regia Danilo Licciardello Flavio Signore
Foto: Damiano D’angeli
Musica: Silvia Trix
Produzione: lighter no problem

On the occasion of the action by refugees-on-the-street who started a camp outside the Collective Center at Ter Apel in the north of the Netherlands on the 8th of May, Jo van der Spek of M2M wrote the following column. These migrants are supposed to return voluntarily to their country, because the Dutch government believes that they are not in danger there. However the governemnt in Iraq refuses to take them back if they are forced. So they have nowhere to go to, no right to be here and no way to go there. But they act together for a chance to live and live better than before. Why not?

Welcoming the Iraqi Invasion Act

Finally it is not the USA that invades The Hague, in order to prevent the application of international justice to American citizens- soldiers. No, it’s Iraqi citizen-migrants occupying common ground in the north of the Netherlands in an effort to force a radical change in
the application of human justice to migrants that are so far denied acces and basic rights.

This act of occupation by a fast growing number of mainly Iraqi refugees-on-the-street is well timed and also well suited to create an uplifting  experience amidst the general lethargy that still covers Holland like  a blanket of mental smog.

Like so many times before in history an external agent, through an unexpected and autonomous action, is now intervening in the Dutch  political landscape, at a moment that everyday political life is in a highly unstable state: no government, a parliament trying to gain legitimacy and a queen dying to hand-over sovereignty to her son. The direct cause for this current limbo lies in  the response to the economic recession and the European conditions  forcing even a rich country like Holland to take extreme measures of austerity. However, the cornerstone of change, the hinge on which the minds and hearts of a significant section of youth and mindful adults may move, is the approach towards migrants and world affairs in general. Poverty is moving in and migrants are dying on the shores of Europe. Soon we will be drifting  together if we don’t take drastic action.

Finally we see the face of globalization reflected in the mirror that   Brussels and Ter Apel are holding up for us to see. We see Geert Wilders as just another make-over of Batman, unmasking himself as just another copy cat of Pim Fortuyn, only adding to the pitiful frustration of the merciless masses voting for him, proving  once again time for messiah is over. One man will not make the difference. Ask Obama.

Finally the Joker hits back. After two exercises last winter led by Somali  brothers and sisters camping in the cold outside the deportation  complex of Ter Apel, now the weather is fine and time is ripe for the  real thing. These poor asylum seekers, strangled by foreign police  and immigration service IND, mentally broken by the thousands in administrative detention, suffocated by laws and lawyers, made  dependant on charity and church, are finally showing who they really are: human! They can really move! They are not victims but actors!
They can be tourists like you and me! So let us not help the occupiers in Ter Apel. Let us not support them, don’t give them tents, blankets or telephone credit. Do not bring your redundant laptops, I-pads or even worn-out  army boots and leather jackets to their field of honour. No, embrace their exemplary autonomous action, join Ali Aziz and Hadi Abu Sanad like in the 16th century we embraced the House of Orange, invading the Dutch swamps at nearby Heiligerlee. Temperature is rising, parliamentary politics is exhausted, corporate business is selling out to China’s communists and Mexican coke dealers.
We got to save ourselves.

We are  here, we the people, we make the difference, we have no borders to cross, we have no cross other than our own indulging in apathy. Let’s throw it off and start the summer. Leave your squat and camp out. Send your children abroad after the exams and restore disorder at home.
Forget your mortgage, bury your debts and love your neighbour.
Let migrants invade this place and help us chase away the ghosts of Rawagade, Srebrenica, the Schiphol Fire and most of all the mist of mental misery hanging over us.

• Netherlands - first country in Europe with net neutrality
• France: Google sent again to court for its search suggestion service
• Concerns regarding plans for a new EU United Patent Court
• UK High Court orders ISPs to block The Pirate Bay
• Portugal: Suing users for copyright infringement does not work
• Slovakia: Mandatory e-forms work only on software from one vendor
• ENDitorial: ACTA is not dead
• Recommended Reading
• Agenda

Last Sunday state elections took place in Schleswig-Holstein (SH) in Northern Germany. When the votes were counted the Pirate Party had taken 8.2 % of the vote, thus entering its third State Parliament after earlier successes in Berlin (8.9%, September 2011) and the Saarland (7.4%, March 2012). Next weekend is the turn of the biggest German region to vote, Nordrhein Westfalien, current polls put the PP at around 9%. On this form they will easily surpass the German electoral threshold of 5% and enter the federal parliament in 2013.

Losers in this election were the liberals (FDP) and the Left (Die Linke). The Green Party increased its vote only marginally, haemorrhaging support to the PP – amongst the six Pirate representatives elected in SH is Angelika Beer, a former national chairperson of the Greens. Given the latter’s intention to form a coalition government with the SPD in 2013, the continuance of this slippage to the Pirates is the most significant fallout of the election. In the case of SH, the SPD & Greens will now only have a majority with a third coalition partner, the Danish minority party, SSW.

Who Are the Pirates Anyway?

So far the actual political character of the PP has remained unexplored. In the first place because media attention has focussed on their novelty, a sort of ‘party of the internet’, and predictable jokes about, well…. pirates. Secondly, their development of a full electoral programme is recent and their membership is increasing rapidly, so it’s difficult to anticipate where things will settle. Thirdly  they have not been cónfronted with the dilemmas of power such as to force them to reveal what unnegotiable convictions, if any, they hold. As the current beneficiaries of the floating vote, this enigmatic aspect is undoubtedly useful.

The strange alchemy of the organisation is indicated by the composition of its new national leadership. Bernd Schlömer, the new party chairperson, studied criminology and is now employed at the Department of Defence, responsible for academic training at the University of the Federal Armed Forces. Meanwhile Johannes Ponader was elected as political secretary, an unemployed actor who has a past in the Basic Income Network and was a prominent representative at the Occupy Berlin! encampment last winter.

Buzzwords: ‘Participation’,'Feedback’, ‘Transparency’.

What binds together the disparate elements seems to be an enthusiasm for process, modernising zeal, and a jejeune conviction in the possibility of rational solutions to social problems. And of course affection for machines.

This process enthusiasm is materialised in Liquid Feedback, a software tool for grassroots policy formation and debate. The system enables a multi-level delegation of one’s vote to others whose opinion one trusts. This is understood as an instrument of internal democracy and a channel for ‘feedback’ – a term rooted in cybernetics where information outputs are recycled for purposes of system self-correction.

‘Engineering culture’ is also visible in the party’s emphatic attachment to evidence-based positions; against drug prohibition; secular; in favour of markets where they work; open to alternatives where they don’t. Questions cannot be answered in the absence of data, consultation and logic. Such a mode of discourse allows a form of self-presentation as pragmatic and beyond left/right – a profitable attitude for a group currently taking voters from all parts of the political spectrum.

Paradoxically, for a party nominally identified with pirates, its members express great enthusiasm for citizenship, ethics and reason in a period where such traits seem a bit quaint and certainly in decline. It will be thus interesting to observe how the PP deals with the irrational, shady, treacherous reality of Politics, where being just piratical is common coin.

Debugging Democracy?

So what of this cybernetic rhetoric of deliberative democracy?

Critics of cybernetics have argued that taking the machinic as the metaphor for the social leads its adherents to relegate agonistic politics to an anachronism, capable of being transcended or side-stepped via technical refinements and better information. Fred Turner has offered a critical history of the utopian rhetoric of ‘cyberculture’, tracing its rhetoric of participation, frictionless markets and self-organization to the encounter of one part of the sixties counterculture with the post-war scientific community, an encounter enabled by the universalizing metaphor of systems analysis and the language of cybernetics.

In “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”, filmmaker Adam Curtis takes Turner’s narrative and extends it to critique the claimed political potential of network orchestrated action, taking the failed uprisings (?) in the Ukraine & Kyrgyzstan in 2004/5 as emblematic. In his view, the weak structures of technologically enabled self-organisation form an inadequate counterweight to the power  of the vested interests who currently dominate decision-making.

What this analysis elides is that self-organization need not be limited to online ‘movements of opinion’ and occasional mass theatre. Digital tools are, and will be, central to any  mobilization which entails the formation of real-world social bonds. Recent social movements such as M15 in Spain and Occupy Wall Street prefigure this, as does the PP in the realm of classical politics. Whether either can be effective in achieving their ends is another matter.

Reality is not a Perfectible Machine

Any temptation towards cybernetics in the PP is leavened by the desire for a new public sphere – the net as the new coffee-house of bourgeois democracy – and experience of political institutions and processes which have impeded or warped the potentials enabled by technology and networks.

Nine pieces of European legislation have extended the scope and duration of copyright in the last twenty years, fruit of private sector lobbying. Their beneficiaries, owners of the media platforms which have dominated public imagination (and politicians’ careers) since the war, are understandably unreceptive to arguments as to their own obsolescence. In Germany copyright enforcement has become a veritable industry of ‘notice and shake-down’. Elsewhere, the PP are deeply opposed to the collection of personal data by state and private parties, and to the extension of surveillance culture.

These issues are enough to provide a thorough lesson in the dynamics of politics and the non-neutrality of state action. Should the PP hold the balance of power in 2013 I would expect these two themes to be the ones on which they refuse to budge, and if they play hard they could achieve a result. But the limits to their oppositional nature are illustrated in Schleswig-Holstein where they have offered limited support to the new coalition provided neither increased state surveillance or data retention are part of the programme for government. Some of those who voted for them as a protest may be disappointed, ultimately the PP are more pragmatic than refusenik.

From Friday 20 to Sunday 22nd of January 2012 the ‘Everything must go‘ exhibition in the South Bank’s Oxo Wharf (London, UK) opened its doors to the public. The event was in many ways special: Not only aimed at bringing interested non-academics and academics together, but its principle aim was to convey to the general public academic research results around recycling commodity chains (from the ‘Waste of the World’ and ‘Worn Clothing‘ project) acquired over the course of 5 full years. The mentioned two projects have 2 major focus areas: Clothing Recycling and the recycling (scavenging) of ships in dedicated shipyards. While the facts and stories about ship recycling impressed through the strength and rawness of their on-site report, it was the how ingeniously literally everything gets a new lease of life left in developing country that made a a lasting impression on me.

Kuni noizing

A Project Proposal at Occupy Chicago

MP3 OF THE TALK AT OCCUPY CHICAGO: part 1 & part 2
SLIDES USED IN THE PRESENTATION: pdf here

How do societies change? It has long been observed that capitalism develops in forty-to-sixty year cycles, bookended by great crashes and periods of stagnation. Technologies and relations of production are transformed along with modes of government and social reproduction. New patterns of trade and nternational relations emerge on the geopolitical level. Ten or fifteen years later, people look back and realize: “That was a turning point. The world is totally different now.”

Such a change has been experienced in living memory, with the crisis of the late sixties/early seventies that ushered in neoliberalism. What will happen now? By bringing together various strands of Marxist crisis-theory (the technological innovation school, the regulation approach, world-systems theory) it’s possible to show how a distinctly neoliberal society emerged from the political upheaval, long recession and monetary chaos of the sixties-seventies. Once we have identified the full range of neoliberal institutions, we can generate an analytical picture of the status quo around, say, 2005. And on that basis we can see what’s changing right now, in many different arenas. Who are the agents of social change? Could we intervene in some of those arenas while everything is still in flux? Why wait fifteen years to discover the solutions that the elites will have arranged for us? The idea of this lecture/workshop is to lay the groundwork for a strategic observatory of the still-unfolding crisis.

***

The conclusion of our meeting at the Educational Forum of Occupy Chicago was that a process of research-action could be focused directly on the city of Chicago, with all its ongoing struggles. By participating in the concrete struggles and systematically mapping out the abstract forces at play in them, we could generate useful knowledge about the restructuring of society as a whole. Useful means the kind of knowledge that helps everyone to intervene more effectively. This would be a long-term project, with a preparatory period over the next few months and a fully active period next fall. Ideally it would lead to the creation of educational products that could be widely shared. The next meeting will be on May 6.

Anyone who is interested in collaborating on this project, feel free to contact me. For previous iterations of this project, see:

Three Crises Seminar

The above is the archive of a collaborative seminar, carried out at Mess Hall in Chicago, concerning the last three major political-economic crises of US and world society: the 1930s, the 1970s, and now. Here you will find written texts, recordings of the seminars, and full-text bibliographies.

Technopolitics Project

This is an open-source research platform, run by people in Vienna, where this inquiry into the processes of social change began.

• ACTA – if you think we've won, we've lost
• European Court of Justice ruling in the Bonnier case
• Spain: Draft law criminalising online organisation of public protests
• Thousands of Austrians standing up against data retention
• EU Parliament agrees to EU-US PNR Agreement
• YouTube loses a case in Germany to collective society Gema
• FBI seizure to threaten anonymity and freedom of speech
• Big Brother Awards Germany 2012
• ENDitorial: The day the HADOPI stream flowed into the Pirate Bay
• Recommended Action
• Recommended Reading
• Agenda

"Last Friday, Diana Cornwell did what many parents of children with disabilities do after a successful experience with a child who has more needs than many: She posted photos of her 7-year-old son, Cole, who has Down Syndrome and is non-verbal, on Facebook. On Friday afternoon, Cole had attended his first Special Olympics event, at a local high school in Davison County, North Carolina. As his mother told WCNC (News Channel 36), he was “all smiles.”"

–Facebook Tells Mother: Remove Photos of Down Syndrome Child | Care2 Causes

(Italiano) Ho incontrato il lavoro di Federica Braghieri seguendo il blog The Laser Cutter. Mi ha subito colpito il gioco di forme e tagli dei suoi modelli e l’ho contattata per approfondire la sua metodologia di lavoro. Dopo uno scambio di mail e avendo capito che le nostre agende non riuscivano a farci incontrare a breve abbiamo fissato un incontro in Skype e questo è il risultato della chiacchierata.

 _____A Pado Loup : ______festival autogéré du 12 au 22 août 2012 à Pado, 06470 Beuil, les Alpes Maritimes.

( english version below)

- Hurlements à la lune 2012 :

Venez-vous excentrer, quittez vos bocages urbains pour nous rejoindre à Pado, à 1600 m d’altitude, en pleine saison d’orages, sur le territoire des loups.

Pour se remettre des plannings quotidiens contraignants, nous éviterons cet été d’organiser des journées découpées en 7 sessions d’1 heure pendant les 7 jours de la semaine, pour  privilégier une matière qui s’est fortement raréfiée : le temps.

Pour aider au sevrage progressif, le festival A Pado Loup fait appel à vous pour proposer des temps collectifs autour de nombreux projets ; pour en terminer certains, en entamer d’autres, et prendre le temps de repenser à tous ceux laissés en jachère pendant l’année.

Donc pas de liste de conférences au programme, mais des périodes d’ateliers, de rencontres et de discussions. Le festival devrait ainsi progressivement trouver sa forme naturelle et créer une sorte de constellation d’ateliers souples et communicants, dont nous ignorons totalement la conformation finale.

En guise de suggestions : les projets à développer A Pado Loup :

- Construction d’un four solaire.
- Construction d’un chauffe-eau solaire en thermosiphon.
- Construction d’une éolienne à axe vertical.
- Trouver un système de protection du potager contre l’appétit vorace des cerfs.
( en évitant la clôture de 2,20m de haut sur 300  m.)
- Mise en place d’un réseau mesh à destination des cerfs pour déjouer le système de protection du potager.
- Pirates box avec alimentation solaire, (Configuration, mise en place, etc…).
- Faire du savon avec de l’huile d’olive.
- Création d’OVNI : quadcopters….ou tous autres objets volants difficilement identifiables…

Noter sur le pad ci-dessous ce que vous avez envie de réaliser pendant ce festival :

http://titanpad.com/O5BUjZOdNd

Soirées :

- Concert radio :
Attention : Penser à amener un ou plusieurs petits récepteurs radios à piles et des instruments ou objets sonores de votre choix.
- Soirée des étoiles filantes et des constellations “en réalité augmentée”.
- Projection d’un film muet avec bande-son en live coding.

Nota bene :
Les enfants sont les bienvenus dans un lieu qui en a vu grandir et en voit beaucoup passer.

RESSOURCES :

1) Nourriture :
Légumes, fruits et viande du pays. Pour le reste, éventuels partenariats avec des producteurs bios (thé, pâtes, riz…). Participation : prix libre avec un minimum de 10 euros par personne et par jour.

2) Eau :
Stock dans les citernes pour douches et cuisson des aliments.
Fontaine à 1 km pour l’eau potable.

3) Electricité :
Panneaux solaires (il en manque encore…), et groupe électrogène de secours.

4) Douches solaires :
4 douches solaires sur place, ceux qui en ont les amènent.

5) Lieux d’aisance :
WC à litière.

6) Cuisine :
Chacun apporte assiette, couverts et gobelet si possible. Cuisine autogérée.

7) Couchages :
Autour de la maison, plein de petits coins intimes, mignons et tendres pour  planter une tente, d’autres structures, ou construire une cabane… On a  de la  place.

8 ) Outillage :
Tout ce qu’il faut pour bien s’amuser, mais n’oubliez pas vos outils préférés !

9) Comment venir :
Ceux qui viennent sans véhicule :
- Train jusqu’à Nice.
- Bus n° 770 à prendre devant la gare sncf ( 2 par jour) qui  amènent à Beuil Les Launes (1km5 de la maison).
- Possibilité de monter du matos jusqu’à la maison.
Ceux qui viennent en véhicule, parking désert à 700 mètres du lieu.

Important :

Outre vos propositions, pensez à envoyer, avant le mois de juillet, un mail à cette adresse pour nous informer de votre venue :

Mail: apadoloup@usinette.org

D’autres infos seront publiées ici :
http://apadoloup.wordpress.com/

A très bientôt !

L’équipe d’A Pado Loup

 

 

______A Pado Loup ________:

Self sustanable Hack&DIY festival from 12 to 22th August 2012 in Pado, 06470 Beuil, Alpes Maritimes. France.

- Howling at the moon 2012:

    Come and leave the epicenters, quit your urban groves to join us in Pado, at 1600 m, during the storms season, at the territory of wolfs.
For recovering from daily binding schedules, we want to avoid this summer having journeys divided into 7 sessions taking each 1 hour during the 7 days of the week, to privilege a matter that is highly rarefied: time.
To help the gradual withdrawal, A Pado Loup Festival make a call to people wanting to propose and be part of a collective time around many projects ; to finish some others, engage new ones, and take the time to continue or rethink all those left fallow during the year.
So no list of conferences in the program, but periods of workshops, meetings and discussions. The festival is expected to gradually find its natural shape and create a sort of constellation of flexible and interconnected workshops, which we have no idea the final organisational structure.

Here some inputs : projects to develop at A Pado Loup:

    - Building a solar oven.

    - Building of a solar water heater in thermosyphon.

    - Construction of a vertical axis wind turbine.

    - Find a system to protect the garden against the voracious appetite of deers.

    ( avoiding a fence de 2,20m high on 300m ).

    - Setting up a mesh network bound for deers to install for the garden a protection system.

    - Solar pirate box. (Configure, setting, etc… )

    - Make soap with olive oil.

    - Building a OVNI : quadcopters, ballons… or all kind of unidentifiable flying objets… 

    

    *** This pad below is for your proposals, to note what you want to do during the festival, a performance, cooking, all your wishes.

http://titanpad.com/O5BUjZOdNd

    

Evenings :

- Radio concert :

Please note: Consider to bring one or more small battery radio receptors, des instruments ou sonic objects of your choice.

- Constellations and Falling stars in “augmented reality” evening.

- Screening of a silent film with live soundtrack coding.

Nota bene:

Children are welcome at A Pado Loup, a place where children grew up and lots of others use to come. 

RESOURCES :

1. Food: 

Vegetables, fruit and meat from the region. Otherwise, potential organic growers and farmers partnerships with organic products (tea, pasta, rice …) 

Participation: open and voluntary but with a minimum cuote of 10 euros person per day.

2. Water:

In stock tanks for showers and cooking. Fountain 1 km for drinking water.

3. Electricity:

Solar panels (we still need one or two…), and a standby emergency electro-generator.

4. Solar showers:

At place we dispose of 4 solar showers, those who have more please take them with you.

5. Lavatories:

Litter toilets.

6. Cuisine:

Consider to bring with you a plates, cups and cutlery if possible. Shared kitchen.

7. Sleep:

Around the house there are full of intimate corners, cute and tender for setting your tent, to buit on other structures like building a hut. There is room.

8. Tools:

There is everything you need to have fun, but remember your favorite tools!

9. Arriving: How to…

For those who come without a vehicle:

    - Train to Nice.

    - Bus # 770 to take in front of the railway station (gare SNCF) ( 2 buses per day ) the bus lead to Beuil Le Launes (1km5 to the house).

    - Possibility to mount your stuff or material if heavy to the house, built in a hill. 

For those comming by car, there is a parking free place at 700 meters from the house.

Important:

In addition from your proposals, please consider sending before July, an email to this adress to inform us of your visit:

Mail: apadoloup@usinette.org

For more information read regulary news in this blog:

http://apadoloup.wordpress.com/

See you very soon !

A Pado Loup Team

 

FBI decomisa un servidor utilizado por organizaciones sociales para comunicaciones digitales #FBI #censura #internet #control #servidor #comunicación #Riseup #habloespañol https://mayfirst.org/es/el-fbi-decomiso-un-servidor - (...) El decomiso de este servidor ha afectado a académicos, artistas, historiadores, grupos feministas, grupos en favor de derechos para la comunidad gay, centros comunitarios, archivos y documentación de software y grupos por la libertad de expresión. El servidor incluía la lista de correo "cyber derechos" (la más antigua lista de discusión en Italia sobre este tema), un grupo de solidaridad con migrantes de México y otros grupos que trabajan en apoyo a grupos indígenas y trabajadores/as en América Latina, el Caribe y Africa. En total, más de 300 cuentas de correo, entre 50 y 80 listas de correo electrónico y algunos otros sitios web se han retirado del internet con esta acción. Ningun@ de ell@s están acusados ​​de estar involucrados en las amenazas de bomba. "El FBI está usando una aproximación al problema similar al uso de un mazo, cuando de manera indiscriminada apaga los servicios de cientos de usuarios teniendo como justificación las acciones de una persona anónima", ha señalado Devin Theriot-Orr, el vocero de Riseup. "Esta situación es en particular equivocada debido a que es improbable que exista cualquier información en el servidor relacionada con el origen de los correos con amenazas", agregó. "Nosotros simpatizamos con la comunidad de la Universidad de Pittsburgh, quien ha tenido que enfrentar este transtorno aterrador en su vida por semanas. Nosotros nos oponemos a esas acciones para infundir miedo. Sin embargo, haberse llevado este servidor no detendrá las amenazas de bomba. El único efecto que tiene es alterar e interrumpir el correo electrónico y los sitios web de miles de personas que no guardan relación con esos hechos", continua el señor Theriot-Orr, "además, la red de sistemas de envío de correo anónimo no se encuentra afectada con la ausencia de este servidor. Así que no podemos ayudar, pero nos preguntamos las razones de esta drástica medida ya que las autoridades sabían que el servidor no contenía información útil para su investigación."

FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility. #FBI #censorship #riseup #control #server #internet (...) Disrupted in this seizure were academics, artists, historians, feminist groups, gay rights groups, community centers, documentation and software archives and free speech groups. The server included the mailing list “cyber rights” (the oldest discussion list in Italy to discuss this topic), a Mexican migrant solidarity group, and other groups working to support indigenous groups and workers in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. In total, over 300 email accounts, between 50-80 email lists, and several other websites have been taken off the Internet by this action. None are alleged to be involved in the anonymous bomb threats. “The FBI is using a sledgehammer approach, shutting down service to hundreds of users due to the actions of one anonymous person,” said Devin Theriot-Orr, a spokesperson for Riseup. “This is particularly misguided because there is unlikely to be any information on the server regarding the source of the threatening emails.” https://help.riseup.net/en/seizure-2012-april

Red de Radios Comunitarias y Medios Libres de Guerrero - Primera Declaración #radio #Mexico #Guerrero #autonomía #habloespañol #comunicación #latinoamerica http://zapateando.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/primera-declaracion-de-la-red-de-radios-comunitarias-y-medios-libres-de-guerrero/ Reunidos los días 30 y 31 de marzo de 2012, en la Casa de Justicia de la Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias – Policía Comunitaria en San Luis Acatlán, Guerrero, las radios Ñomndaa de Suljaa’ en el 100.1fm, Uan Milahuak Tlajtoli de Chilapa en el 94.1fm, La Voz de los Pueblos de Espino Blanco en el 91.1fm, Radio UNISUR de Cuajinicuilapa en el 104.3fm, La Voz de la Costa Chica de San Luis Acatlán en el 98.3fm, Radio Despertar de mi Pueblo desde Chilixtlahuaca en el 98.3fm, Vaza Radio de Tlapa en el 93.1fm, Voces Nuestras de Ayotzinapa en el 90.1fm

Ruling

Bonnier Audio took the Swedish Internet service provider (ISP), Perfect Telecommunication, to court to obtain a court order to disclose the identities of alleged infringers of their intellectual property (IP) rights. As a result, the Swedish High Court asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) if, assuming such a measure was proportionate, a Member State could introduce legislation which would require telecommunications data to be made available for such purposes. More specifically, would such a national measure be in breach of the Data Retention Directive?

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San Francisco Wall colors

At the forthcoming Salone del Mobile, Domus will host and exhibition looking at what is to come in the future of design, involving events and live performances in Palazzo Clerici, right in the heart of Milan. Openwear will be part of the event with a workshop focused on lasercutting felt for fashion accessories. Read the details and subscribe (workshop will be in italian).

Marielle Gallo MEP (EPP, France) has published her draft report (only in French for the moment) for the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). As one would expect, she is urging her colleagues to support ACTA. She is also launching the counter-strategy described in an article published on the EDRi website on 5 March.

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Czech language version

A leaked G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and USA) document gives the strongest indication yet that the leading countries behind ACTA are working on the basis that the Agreement is now in serious trouble and needs to be fundamentally re-thought and re-worked – and in its current form even abandoned.

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• New EDRi members
• UK: Home Office plans new surveillance measures
• 9 June 2012 – European Action Day Against ACTA
• Spanish Sinde law brings about the first website take down requests
• Poland: Almost 2 million accesses to electronic communication data
• Hadopi report says nothing about decreases in sales
• Hungary: freedom of information restricted by new draft law
• New CoE recommendations for human rights in Internet services
• Draft Online Safety Bill to block pornographic sites in UK
• ENDItorial: Searching for a Google strategy?
• Recommended Action
• Recommended Reading
• Agenda

Time Based Text allows the user to include more information in written text by saving the time delta between keystrokes and offering a way to reproduce it exactly how it has been written. It offers a protocol and reference implementation that is easily embeddable in applications using text-based human communication. The idea behind it is that email systems as well poetry and literature may benefit from a time-based approach to text. It comes with a portable C++ reference implementation to generate TBT messages and save them in HTML and DokuWiki (JSON), a Website to upload and exchange TBT poetry, plus various advanced TBT implementations in Javascript, Python, and Perl.

Release Notes: This release comes with a new Web site and updated documentation, as well as a user-friendly Mac OS X application to produce time-based text recordings in HTML, ready for Web publishing.

Release Tags: usability, Documentation

Giggin Vitton Cap story: il trailer. A presto la videonarrazione integrale.

Dalla spiaggia mai bonificata di Bagnoli parte la Giggin Vitton Cap, la coppa america dei poveri, dei precari, dei movimenti. Suspense e colpi di scena in questa prima edizione…
Lanciata da Ba.Fu:Ca. e dalle altre realtà dell’area flegrea, la Giggin Vitton Cap è l’alternativa consapevole alla (pseudo) coppa america che vede un pò di ricconi venire a regatare nel golfo di Napoli. Un’operazione di pura facciata alla “modica” cifra di 5 milioni di euro (!) e del sequestro di un pezzo di città.
La Giggin Vitton Cap non sequestra pezzi di città ma chiede invece di renderli nuovamente vivibili. Solo il 2% dei napoletani ha la barca mentre il 98% ha un costume da Bagno. Fate un pò voi il conto delle priorità…

[Reposted from m68k via datenwolf]

Caminata: mercado central de Oaxaca

Ieri si sono aperti i cancelli della Fiera del consumo etico e degli stili di vita sostenibili. Anche quest'anno Openwear partecipa a questo evento insieme a varie realtà del territorio per stimolare la riflessione sulla sperimentazione di un nuovo sistema moda con al centro una rete collaborativa di produttori.

• EU-US PNR Agreement: A bad day for civil liberties in Europe
• EU-US joint commitments on privacy and protection of personal data
• France: Biometric ID database found unconstitutional
• ICANN will cooperate in taking down websites for copyright infringements
• CoE's Internet Governance strategy places emphasis on users' rights
• New German court decision on traffic filtering
• Italy: Problematic Internet blocking decision against fraudulent website
• ENDitorial: European Parliament defends itself and democracy from ACTA
• Recommended Action
• Recommended Reading
• Agenda

Ce jeudi 29 mars, retour des réunions hebdomadaires du /tmp/lab  dans son berceau chéri…

/tmp/lab & 6Bis
6Bis rue Leon Geffroy
94400 Vitry sur Seine

More explanations … :

RER C “Les Ardoines” (10 minutes from Gare d’Austerlitz / St Michel Notre Dame)
Turn left outside of the RER station parking lot. Walk straight  on “Rue Leon  Geffroy” and  you arrive to 6Bis (just after street number 60, a street sign “AS24″). The lab is behind the big building, at the end of the pathway next to the tracks).

http://www.tmplab.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/6bis_map.jpg

non è che se la passano benissimo….

At last, Rita Mae brown and I have lift off. “Southern Discomfort” now reads like a letter from a long-lost friend. Montgomery, Alabama finally comes to life and it starts at page twenty. The writer’s aesthetic also comes clearer now: mayhem and confusion in the first five minutes or so. The language and the idioms are also rather new to me which Trevor and I try to discuss. Without a southerner or an American at hand it wasn’t easy but it is fun.

The other day he caught his sexton, Cecil Romble, singing “Hello, My Baby.” Linton pitched himself a fit and fell in it. Cecil Romble might never sing again after that display.

“Linton pitched himself a fit and fell in it.” “To pitch” in place of “to throw”, as when someone throws himself a fit. But to fall in it? It is meant perhaps to be hypocritical, Trevor explained.

“Southern Discomfort” presents the class and racial differentiation in the south of the United States of America. The dependence between these different sets of people is loud and clear that one almost forgets the line between the aristocratic and the working class. Only the middle-class sat somewhere alienated.

“The middle classes will endure anything so long as they can make money and be allowed their comic social pretensions.”

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To be honest, I picked out “Broken Music” to read, a memoir, because I thought that I might write my own. My mom always spoke of why Trevor and I were moving to the countryside. She said it for us, “to write our memoirs.” Now, nearly finished with the book, I wondered about the original intention.

The repetitive drama of meeting a person or turning left or saying “no” that would forever, always forever and always drastically, change one’s life has come to a tiresome end. Could I ever really see my life like that? A past of episodic trails or a vivid picture of the effects of my choices on the future?

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I had some chillies roasting in the oven when I finished “Girl with a Pearl Necklace.” Later that afternoon, I would roast some garlic while reading “Broken Music,” and burn them.

For now, I am happy that I have actually finished reading a whole book, from cover to cover. I cannot for the life of me remember ever doing that. Trevor asked how could I have finished university and even teach there if I couldn’t read. I thought that a totally reasonably question until I learned that my good old Auntie Frine who has a PhD in Education at Indiana University - in the 50s and 60s when people were intelligent and PhDs meant something - never went to the library to read or read a book in its entirety when she was at school. She remarked once, all you need to do is read the footnotes. But I suppose this was at a time too when footnotes had something to say. She also recalls being ‘forced’ into the library by a friend who had 'smuggled in' a bottle of perfume to share with her. The bottle crashed, the library smelled like a funeral parlor and they were promptly let out. That was the only and last time she had gone into the library. Decades later after her retirement from civil service, she taught Statistics at Graduate School, and yes indeed, I never saw her read or carry a book.

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“My mother did not tell me they were coming.”

That is the first line in the book I am reading now. Yesterday, we walked down to the market, the Municipal Library and to the beach, about half a kilometer or so from our home. At the library I said to myself “I’m going to find a good book to read.”

The library was rather small, maybe 6 square meters in all, and most of its books were donations from people living in Baclayon. Trevor and I have donated books there ourselves. Trevor, some of what he calls “silly thrillers” of the likes of Wambaugh and Ngaio Marsh. Me, a book written by a friend, Alan Story, about international copyright law. I gave a copy to the library because I had two. Trevor has tons more “silly thrillers” collected from the second-hand bookshop in Quezon City over the 4 years we stayed there.

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A few days ago, I tried reading a book. A novel. Trevor, a voracious reader, suggested that I read “Southern Discomfort” (1982) by Rita Mae Brown. A few times, Trevor reads out portions of the book to me, particularly the funny witty portions. From what I heard came to my mind the picture of a western rather than a southern.

My own attempt at reading wasn’t so successful. The novel started with two characters which merged together so well I couldn’t tell which was which. I had to read a few sentences twice, sometimes more. I told Trevor about my problem and he confirmed that even he had difficulty telling who was who, but on a more general sense - as in, almost all novels he’d read. Well, at least I’m not that bad!

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Oscar Ruiz Schmidt is originally from Costa Rica and studying in a master of Fashion Design at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin. Together with his partner Ingrid Cordero, created Obra Gris, a clothing label (and a blog) with a metaphoric Spanish name referring to something in construction or in progress.

 2062 : Labs ouverts en fusion….

 Alors que se termine la résidence «Laboratoire Ouvert» du /tmp/lab et que débute celle de Dorkbot//Dev/art//Upgrade!, les journées de clôture de 2062 seront l’occasion de nous retrouver et de fusionner nos envies autour d’un programme commun.

Nous nous établirons le 24 et 25 mars, au sein de l’auditorium pour discuter, construire, jouer en milieu fertile et créer un espace où s’agrègent le crack, le hack, le code improvisé, la mécanique empirique du broyage de plastique et l’art de le fermentation.

Au programme, huit rendez-vous :

 

Samedi 24 mars

che sfiga ad averci come vicini di casa!!
ecco a cosa servono i bombardamenti umanitari,
come a Belgrado nel 1999 contro Milosevic,
ricordate i tornado di D’alema da Aviano??

qualche tempo fa siamo andati in Serbia a Kragujevac dove un tempo c’era la Zastava,
ora c’è passata la FIAT di Marchionne.
ecco quello che abbiamo filmato e mandato in onda su Rainews24, guardate:
FIGLI DI FIAT

solo ora anche “La Repubblica”, si sveglia con un inchiesta giornalistica (che parola demodè!)
INCHIESTA REPUBBLICA

l’industria italiana infatti, mentre affama un paese col mantra della crisi, (pensate non solo a FIAT, ma anche OMSA etc..)
insieme con Intesa San Paolo, Generali e Fondiaria e molti altri si va a succhiare gli aiuti/sovvenzioni dello stato serbo,
come a fatto in Italia per decenni, avendo capito che non c’è più trippa per gatti….
offrono salari da fame,
sperimentando nuovi contratti che vietano agli operai anche la libertà di parola e di espressione (gli operai FIAT della NewCo non si facevano intervistare da noi..)
altro che modello Pomigliano!!

Tra inaugurazioni,
feste e intrattenimenti che da quelle parti, funzionano alla grande,
i nostri industriali senza portafoglio,
con un ora di traghetto sull’Adriatico, pare stiamo facendo affari, altro che crisi….
minacciando i serbi di ri-spostare la FIAT in Sicilia!!
chissà dove pagano le tasse, poi!!

nicolangrisano