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till@tillwe.de (Till Westermayer)
     DE: At least 7500 demonstrating against the war
"Dimitri Devyatkin" <devyatkin@earthlink.net>
     10,000 march for peace in Manhattan
Sean Healy <evolver@loud.org.au>
     terrorism has a new logo?
Steve <cisler@pobox.com>
     Denial of service attacks

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Date: 22 Sep 2001 20:32:00 +0200
From: till@tillwe.de (Till Westermayer)
Subject: DE: At least 7500 demonstrating against the war

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Hi nettime-l,

some news from Germany: this weekend there were at least 7500  
demonstrating against the (coming?) war in Berlin, Köln and Freiburg (and  
maybe more in other cities I don't know of). Opinion polls suggest that a  
(small) majority of the population says yes to a German military  
contribution. Whereas normally the Bundestag has to agree for using the  
Bundeswehr (army) out-of-area, it seems that in this case the Bundestag  
will be informed and called to vote on this issue only *after* the actual  
military raids, because of the 'special situation'. On the other hand  
there seems to be a big majority in Bundestag parliament for military  
attacks with German 'help'; the opposition partys Christian Democrates  
(CDU) and Free Democrats (FDP) will vote for hard, militarian politics  
(and demand more money for the Bundeswehr), so the governing Social  
Democrats (SPD) and chancellor Schröder will have enough votes in the  
Bundestag, even if the smaller government party, The Greens, won't give  
all their votes to a german contribution to the war. The leftist  
opposition party Socialistic Democrats (PDS) will say no. At the moment,  
the Greens are discussing this issue very intensly -- coming from a  
pacifistic movement as well as from an ecological movement, a lot of long- 
time party members don't feel well with a military answer on terroristic  
attacks; some of the green parliament members voted no or absent alrady to  
an declaration of solidarity with the US which included military help. The  
state Green parties in two of the 16 Bundesländer (Berlin and Rheinland- 
Pfalz) declared they are against any military action, as well as many  
members of the party. And even the majority in the party, who isn't  
against any military action, won't support carpet bombings, etc. There are  
speculations that this decision will either end the red-green coalition  
government or force a splitting of the Green party.

Till Westermayer, 2001-09-22
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From: "Dimitri Devyatkin" <devyatkin@earthlink.net>
Subject: 10,000 march for peace in Manhattan
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:56:17 -0700

10,000 march for peace in Manhattan

A mass demonstration against the war was held Friday evening, Sept. 21 in
New York -- a march from Union Square to Times Square attended by perhaps
10,000 people. The marchers walked solemly up Park Avenue South, chanting
anti-war slogans, stopping traffic at intersections. Most of the marchers
were between 20-50 years old; there were a few parents with young children.
People on the street looked on with mostly neutral expressions. Some people
shouted remarks to antagonize the marchers. Many people of Arab appearence
gave the V sign to the marchers. Numerous incidents of violence erupted as
irate drivers stuck behind marchers got our of their vehicles and assaulted
march coordinators. Police were nowhere to be seen when they were needed to
protect the marchers from the muscular, cursing motorists, but the marchers
protected their colleagues. Finally police arrived and actually arrested at
least one thug. One woman in a white convertible actually tried to run her
car into the crowd. She only stopped when warned that video cameras had
recorded her license plate number. Police only became evident at the end of
the march, clearly only to protect stores and property -- No concern was
shown for the safety of the marchers. Police dressed in bright orange jump
suits, with NYPD written on their chests and sports shoes were waiting with
short batons and bloodthristy expressions on their faces. Police blocked
access to Times Square when the demonstrators filled the intersection,
wading into the crowd. No known incidents of violence occurred despite an
ugly mood.

Dimitri Devyatkin
e-mail devyatkin@earthlink.net

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:22:56 +1000
From: Sean Healy <evolver@loud.org.au>
Subject: terrorism has a new logo?

Was googling around
to find a nike factory /quicktime video 4a project,
and came across this bizarre cross-culture jam...
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Fake Nike T-shirts celebrate accused terrorist

By KATHY GANNON, Associated Press

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (December 11, 2000 5:43 p.m. EST
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Trademark pirates are not only stealing
Nike's name, but they're also using it to glorify America's No. 1
terrorist suspect.

T-shirts have shown up in Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan that
feature the U.S. sportswear company's logo alongside a drawing of an
AK-47 assault rifle and praise for Osama bin Laden, "The great mujahid
(holy
warrior) of Islam."

"Jehad is our mission," say the T-shirts, using the Islamic term for
holy war.

"We find it highly offensive," said Kirk Stewart, vice president for
corporate communications at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., after
viewing an Associated Press photo of one of the shirts.

The United States accuses bin Laden of masterminding the 1998 bombings
of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed 224 people including 12

U.S. diplomats. He is also a suspect in the October suicide bombing of a

U.S. destroyer in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors.

But in some parts of Pakistan's deeply conservative and tribal
northwest, and in Afghanistan where bin Laden hides out, many admirers
name their sons after him.

The T-shirts sell for 100 rupees - about $2 in Pakistan. Also on sale
for a few cents apiece are posters featuring a calendar and a picture of

a helicopter with the slogan: "Look out United States Osama is coming."

"The Osama shirts were ordered by someone from Afghanistan, whom we
don't know," said Zarshad Khan, co-owner of Sirtaj Hosiery in Peshawar.

"We are not political people," he said.

Khan said the shirts were manufactured in Faisalabad, in Pakistan's
Punjab province, and two dozen of them arrived at his factory carrying
the Nike logo. Others, in different colors, have been spotted in Afghan
markets.

In Pakistan, copyright laws are rarely enforced and the markets and
bazaars throughout the country are filled with products bearing
counterfeit brand names.

Nike's Stewart said Pakistani authorities have been notified. "This is a

difficult situation we hope the local authorities can resolve," he said.

Mark Wentworth, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, said the
U.S. government will pursue the culprits if Nike so requests.

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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 20:51:14 -0700
From: Steve <cisler@pobox.com>
Subject: Denial of service attacks

http://myafghan.com reports:

Hacker Attack

   This website was down on Wednesday for about 15 hours due to a denial
of server attack caused by hackers. Many other Afghan News site were
down also. We have been up again since Wednesday night.

   From News.com: "The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center
(NIPC) issued an advisory Friday warning companies of increased  hacking
activity in the name of "patriotism" and of the spread of computer
viruses that label infected files with names that relate to Tuesday's
   tragedies."

   "The NIPC reiterates that (such) conduct is illegal and punishable as
a felony, with penalties extending to five years in prison," the warning
said.
   "Those individuals who believe they are doing a service to this
nation by engaging in acts of vigilantism should know that they are
actually doing a disservice to the country."

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