<nettime> contra la videosurveillance! gegen video-ueberwachung! against video surveillance!

[SCP-New York <notbored@panix.com>]

PLEASE TRANSLATE THIS MESSAGE INTO GERMAN, FRENCH, ITALIAN, SPANISH, ETC
AND DISTRIBUTE EVERYWHERE

On 7 September 2001, a network of groups staged an International Day
Against Video Surveillance. Click here for more information:
http://www.notbored.org/7s01.html

Though it was a great success (in action were 23 different groups from 8
different countries!), this protest was inevitably overshadowed by the
terrorist attacks on the USA, which occurred on 11 September 2001, just
four days later.

Since then, the governments of a great many countries -- the USA, Canada,
France, England, Italy, Germany and Israel, to name just a few -- have
cynically used the pretext of "fighting terrorism" to drastically increase
their powers of coercion at all levels of operation (i.e., local police
departments, national military forces, international intelligence
gathering and covert operations) and to use these expanded powers to wage
illegal war against both suspected "international terrorists" and
legitimate political dissidents and activists in their own countries.

And so it seems fitting that, in order to defend and reclaim our civil
liberties, we stage our *second* International Day Against Video
Surveillance on 11 September 2002, and not on its actual first
anniversary.

Are you interested?

contact
notbored@panix.com






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