Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 06:07:10 +0200
Subject: AUT: SEPT 9 NETSTRIKE: ZEDILLO, PENTAGON, FRANKFURT STOCK EXCHANGE


THE ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE THEATER

- For Immediate Release -		Tuesday, September 8, 1998

Stefan Wray				Ricardo Dominguez
sjw210-AT-is8.nyu.edu			rdom-AT-thing.net

News Conference: September 9 at 11:00 a.m. in Linz, Austria
SWARM Exhibit at OpenX in the Brucknerhaus

SEPTEMBER 9 NETSTRIKE AGAINST
ZEDILLO, PENTAGON, AND FRANKFURT STOCK EXCHANGE

In solidarity with the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Electronic Disturbance
Theater will launch its FloodNet software against the web sites of Mexican
President Zedillo, the Pentagon, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Wed.,
September 9, from its base at the Ars Electronica InfoWar Festival. These
actions are part of the Electronic Disturbance Theater=B4s SWARM presentation
at the festival now happening in Linz, Austria.

Since April the Electronic Disturbance Theater has used its FloodNet
software to engage in virtual sit-ins on the web sites of the Mexican
government and the Clinton White House. Such electronic actions are
designed to demonstrate collective and world-wide support for the
Zapatistas in Chiapas and their opposition to the Zedillo government with
its global neoliberal economic agenda.

The SWARM actions on September 9, targeting government, military, and
financial web sites in three countries, will commence at 11:00 a.m. (Linz)
for a 24-hour period. Participants around the world will set their Internet
browsers to the FloodNet page.

The September 9 SWARM starts a fall campaign of hybrid actions combining
action on the street and the Net. FloodNet will be activated in conjunction
with planned actions:
* September 16 (Mexican Independence Day)
* October 12 (Dia de la Raza)
* November 22 (Civil Disobedience at the School of the Americas)

In addition, the Electronic Disturbance Theater will join the micro-power
radio movement in the United States on October 4 and 5 with actions against
the Federal Communications Commission.

FloodNet Foyer---http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsTactical/javascrp.htm
Electronic Civil Disobedience---http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd.html




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