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"Brice Bowman" <brice@bricebowman.com> Re: <nettime> Announcements [actions etc, some IRAQ; x5] "From Cuban exiles:" <ydzhuman_rights@mail.com> A spiritual "axis" of freedom's defenders... srf [if sending mail from a non-existent address is a partial definition of a spammer, then the 'cuban exiles' seem to be, in part at least, spammers. -- mod(tb)] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: "Brice Bowman" <brice@bricebowman.com> Subject: Re: <nettime> Announcements [actions etc, some IRAQ; x5] Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:05:41 -0800 The war in Iraq is justified. I am happy to know that soon, the people of Iraq will be liberated. God Bless the freedom fighters, and death to terrorists, in all of their locations! ----- Original Message ----- from: "Announcer" <nettime@bbs.thing.net> to: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net> sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 8:43 PM subject: <nettime> Announcements [actions etc, some IRAQ; x5] > Paper Cranes for Peace <...> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:06:19 -0500 From: "From Cuban exiles:" <ydzhuman_rights@mail.com> Subject: A spiritual "axis" of freedom's defenders... srf This is a multi-part message in MIME format. xhp EnEspa=F1ol EmPortugu=EAs Friends,=20 What is behind the current protest movements which expand worldwide? Are they spontaneous or coordinated? To which objectives do they respond? Do they really seek "world peace"? Why are they silent regarding the crimes of the dictatorial regime in Iraq; the cruelties of the Colombian narco-guerillas; the violations of political and religious rights in communist countries such as China, Cuba, North Korea & Laos, the persecutions against Christians in Muslim countries; and the pro-Castro despotism of Venezuelan President Chavez? We hope that this article about the recent World Social Forum, which we distribute under our exclusive responsibility, will shine the light on all this. Hope to hear from you. To send us an instant message, please, follow the links below. Cordially, Robert P.M. White, Inter-American Monitor, Miami (FL) Febr. 25, 2003: Diario Las Am=E9ricas, Miami (FL). Febr. 6, 2003: Agencia CubDest (FL). The World Social Forum 2003: Its Networks, Goals and Strategies * "Liliputian" and "Invisible" tactics give the appearance of spontaneity to what in reality is a gigantic protest organization * Short and medium term objectives for Europe, the United States, Latin America and India Until recently, leftist movements were set up in hierarchical fashion, around a party or a mass movement type group. Today, the model in vogue is the network, a kind of "(dis)organization" which "does not possess a hierarchical structure nor a headquarters," counting only on "nodes" in whose intercessions are united "horizontally" hundreds and thousands of protest groups. It's what explains the Italo-Brazilian Jose Luiz Del Roio, an intellectual whose participation was decisive in the Third World Social Forum (Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan. 23-28, 2003), director of the Italian marxist association "Ponto Rosso" (Red Point). The strategic advantages of an organization of networks set up horizontally and not hierarchically are great. To illustrate this, Del Roio gives as an example the Italian "Liliputian network," whose "moral leader" is the Catholic priest Alex Zanotelli, one of the most active figures of "liberation theology," and the leftist Catholic in Italy, a sort of Friar Betto of that country. The name and way of acting of that network makes reference to the work of the Irish author Jonathan Swift, in which a multitude of tiny midgets were able to neutralize the gigantic Gulliver. The "Liliputian" strategy consists in building the largest possible worldwide network, constantly conquering space and influence in front of public opinion so as to obtain the isolation, relegating to unimportance, and "an ever narrower, tighter and thick" fence surrounding the actual Gulliver, represented by the conservative America government and by so-called neo-liberalism. Another tactic of the networks mentioned by Del Roio is the "invisibility" of action, inspired by the Zapatista guerrillas of Chiapas, which makes it difficult for the adversary to detect the identity of he who opposes him. In the mass demonstrations in Italy, this "invisibility" was reflected in tens of thousands of protesters wearing "tutte bianche" (all dressed in white clothes), "almost as if they were ghosts." 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