[Nettime-bold] CYBER BOYCOTT OF 2001

[Wolfgang Staehle <wolfgangsta@thing.net>]

CYBER BOYCOTT OF 2001:
DONīT CONNECT WHERE YOUīRE NOT FREE!


ECONOMIC POWER IS POLITICAL POWER!

In the 1930īs Harlem Boycott, the
community leveraged economic power with
the policy "donīt shop where you canīt
work." Web users today can leverage
their economic power by following the
mandate "donīt connect where youīre not
free." If youīre an activist and you
are still paying for internet service to
the very corporations who seek to
silence you, itīs time you cancel your
account and sign up with more freedom
and culture friendly ISPs like thing.net,
Panix.com, Escape.com if youīre in New
York, or others in your area. Thing.net
serves the entire US, and Canada. Thing.net 
users can reach Name.Space domains. By 
switching your DNS to Name.Space, you are 
"routing around" the censorship of new domains
(i.e. ".sucks") and taking control of
the way you choose to access or publish
content over the net. By registering a
name using the new domain extensions
with Name.Space you are also becoming a
part of the struggle to preserve Free
Speech and access in an increasingly
hostile climate of censorship and
content control by corporate interests
who use threat of litigation to chill
dissent and critique in the name of
defending their intellectual property
rights. Your registration money will go
toward continuing the fight keeping the
net free from corporate rule, and to
protect individualsī rights to access,
freedom of expression, and privacy.
http://namespace.org/switch

Anyone who currently has a domain name
registered with Network Solutions, can
renew it at a lower rate by transferring
it from NSI, who sells their database to
marketers and anyone else who pays, to
Name.Space, who keeps your data private
(unless you ask otherwise).
http://movemy.com/


Join ReClaimThe.Net at FUN on May 1, 2001
from 8pm to 11 pm
to kick off the
Cyber.Boycott of 2001

video.music.words.fun

Admission: FREE!
(cash bar)

Where:
FUN
130 Madison Street, Manhattan
(under the Manhattan Bridge)
[look for the words "under the
blue awning" on a blue awning]


For more information, see:

http://namespace.org/policy/senate.20010214.shtml
http://reclaimthe.net/icann/wto
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0114/ferguson.shtml


More about FUN:
http://fun-ny.com

Recommended ISPs:
http://www.thing.net
http://www.escape.com
http://www.panix.com

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Please circulate!

If you would like to contribute to the
event as a volunteer, speaker, or table
with your groupīs literature, please send
email to <rtn@reclaimthe.net>

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