Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:28:56 -0400
Subject: AUT: NOW! A Gathering to Celebrate Mexicana Independence Day--Sept


Dear Sister and Brothers.

A Call to Join a Virtual Sit-in In Support of
The Zapatistas and Chiapas.

A Gathering to Celebrate Mexicana Independence Day.
In Front of the Bolsa Mexican de Valores
http://www.bmv.com.mx/

Today September 16th
>From 10:00p.m. to 4:00p.m.
New York City Time

Activitate Floodnet Now

http://disturbance.theater.xs2.net

San Francisco: 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Mexico City: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
New York: 10:00 a.m.to 4:00 p.m.
London: 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Amsterdam: 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.


Bring Beer, Music, and Whistles!
Zapata Vive!
Let Dance.


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WARNING: This is a Protest, it is not a game, it may
have personal consequences as in any off-line political
manifestation on the street :

Based on critiques from the Heart Hackers and other individuals
about FloodNet:

A. Your IP address will be harvested by the government during any
FloodNet action. When you click and enter FloodNet your name and
political position will be made known to the authorities.

(Similar to having your picture taking during a protest action
on the street.)

B. Possible damage to your machine may occur because of
your participation in the FloodNet action.

(Just as in a street action--the police may come and hurt you.)*

*During the course of the last 7 FloodNet Actions only 2
individuals  have reported FLOODNET crashing a machine.
Some 80,000 plus have participated without problems. It seems
to The Electronic Disturbance Theater that is was the *hostile applet*
used by the link to hotwired.com articleDOD (Department of Defense/USA)
during the September 9th action that did the damage reported by
those individuals who participated.

If at any time your machine begins to malfunction during the
action. Disconnect from FloodNet. The Electronic Disturbance
Theater will post on the ECD page as soon as possible
any problems and solutions during the time of the action that
we become aware of.

C. That FLOODNET clogs bandwidth and may make it
difficult for many individual using small pipelines around the
world to get information.

Lucky Green stated that:

"FloodNet is both ineffective due to the upstream cache and pure evil,
since it represents an abuse of the network. Even if the load was to
take down a server (ignoring the free speech implications for a moment,
free
speech you want for yourself but deny to those with whom you disagree),
you would not only impact communications with the target site, but also
to those around it. FloodNet is *unacceptable* network abuse.
As bad as spam, if not worse."

(This also happens when people take to the streets. Individuals
may find themselves unable to get to work or buy a news paper
because of the action. FLOODNET actions are short term and
only disturb bandwidth during the time of the manifestation.
The Electronic Disturbance Theater feels that even if FloodNet only
functions as a symbolic action that is enough to make the
collective presence of Zapatista felt beyond The Digital Zapatista
Networks.)

D. We hope that when you join our Virtual Sit-in’s in support
of the communities of resistance in Chiapas you will take the
above information to heart.


Thank you for your support of a communities that call for
world that can make all worlds possible with dignity, justice,
and liberty.

http://disturbance.theater.xs2.net






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