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[Nettime-bold] noZelig - French digital countercultures event |
[for any information regarding the no-zelig conference, please contact contact@no-zelig.org] The year 2000 has had its zeligConf', european digital countercultures meeting. It should have happened only once. But since that event, the french LSQ (the french "Loi Sur la Securité Quotidienne ) has come to life. The year 2002 will then see a 'no- zelig', first stage of a insubordination and civil disobedience Forum, a small hackmeeting serving as an introduction to the Big Brother Awards France. In the year 2000, the zeligConf ', the European digital countercultures Meeting, took place after Seattle which saw of the importance taken by the communication tools in the policital struggle and debate. The meeting attendants noticed that the Independant Media Center had been surrounded by the police, which was trying to deprive thecontesting of its powerful weapon of coordination and cooperation. In the year 2001, Genoa showed us that an Independant Media Center could also be a target of the desire of vengeance, of blind and systematic violence from some kind of police. The 9/11 events have given the opportunity to many western governments to make laws come up which, in other circumstances would never had been voted in such form. The monitoring of the internet has been voted, as well as the criminalisation of cryptography and hackers. Last year's meeting between free software defenders, life patenting opponents, independant media, hacktivists, social movements activists, privacy activists, have shown up to which point the networks' notion could be a constructive answer to the privatization of the world by the Empire merchants. If hackmeetings exist in many western countries, France was rather deprived in this matter. The Y2K zeligConf' had been conceived as an european rendez-vous, which should initially have taken place only once, in collaboration with several foreign collectives. But the situation has gotten worse and worse since las year and it is worth reviewing the state of the art in the field of network rights and freedoms. The 2002 edition won't have the european dimension of the zeligConf'. It takes place in a time of overbid and so-called security "emergency". So, and rather than to say good-bye to the "free" suporters' values, we decided to resist and to organize this "no-zelig". A space-time of convergences to envisage new possibilities of collective actions between the various cultures of networks. A temporary autonomous zone of productive cooperation between the the activism and hack cultures the hack, the practices of counter information and the productive genius of the free software, the creativity of the social movements' actors and the communities of networks. During the No-Zelig, you'll be able to hear talks about perspectives of civil liberties and security, LSQ software patenting, generic impossible protection of personal data on the web, cryptography, cooperative webhosting services. An iniation to SPIP (a collaborative webauthoring tool) will be proposed. A project of Net's by the associative actors in French-speaking Africa will also be presented. Finally, there will be several workshops on computer security or electronic intelligence. These conferences have been setup with the help of Samizdat, Globenet, L'Autre Net, LSIjolie, BugBrother, Gandi, les Virtualistes, Kitetoa,the French Lawyers Union, Ras l'Front, Souriez, vous êtes filmés. At the CICP, Centre International des Cultures Populaires, 21 ter rue Voltaire, 75011 Paris (Métro : Boulets Montreuil), starting on January, 25th 6pm, ending on January, 27 th. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold