jaromil on Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:02:05 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> 6 april movement & factory occupations |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 re all, i write you today because it is the 6th of april, a date marking the birth of a movement in Cairo which mostly coordinates and grow online, with a fixed yearly appointment on the streets. http://6aprilmove.blogspot.com (formerly 6april.blogspot.com - something still cached online) and since i really can't keep it inside, let me add more. we're living in a peculiar period, just before the "Epiphany of a Catastrophe": it is a period in which those who foresee what's happening can be persecuted, lynched, imprisoned, exiled. an inspiring picture is offered by the earthquake (~6 Richter) which stroke Abruzzo last night, for which a polemic now started: the geologist Giampaolo Giuliani who predicted the disaster was called to court for "procurato allarme", that is something like calling a crime the act of giving an alarm. i'm not sure what do you think about the last tumults in London City, i guess you have heard, a man was killed by police it seems, for sure he was the last person that they wanted to beat down... factory occupations started in Paris (deja vu?!) with kidnapping of managers. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/industrials/article5974895.ece also in London a factory was occupied by its fired workers, the story unfolds on http://london.indymedia.org webpages. way better initiatives for fired workers, compared to those in USA (one dumped by IBM?! what a hot geek gossip) who opened fire in NYC killing 13 immigrants, and another fired-gunman the day after. i mean just yesterday. quite some shocking news as time is accelerating, we are also. online is possible to keep yourself updated, its getting more and more participative, with fluid exchanges of ideas and views. and you can even be persecuted for your public opinion - expressed by a simple click - just joining a group on facebook http://7arkt6april.blogspot.com i was visiting Cairo exactly one year ago, on 6 of april, when factory workers in the nearby "industrial town" of Mahalla went to engage police in the street with sword fights. have you heard of that? there are times when, for as much as we have heard and seen in the past few years and predictably going to see more, military intelligence had to strike the situation to an end. i just wonder how it is going to happen today, when the most powerful intelligence is media. and most importantly, how long it all has to occur before we can represent the state of things? the Epiphany of a Catastrophe? where are thou Orson Wells! with your martians to make us humble??! well i believe it is never really convenient to ignore a bad situation, when it is serious. Italy is at an advanced stage of decomposition, really close to a fascist dictatorship by now, is preparing the youth to the crisis scenario hosting a meeting in Milano: http://milano.repubblica.it/dettaglio/forza-nuova-milano-blindata-per-il-convegno/1613934 a clear picture of what is going to be the future (past?) plan to contain social unrest. the End of Capitalism is painful. what is the best we can do to live long & prosper ? ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: 779F E8B5 47C7 3A89 4112 64D0 7B64 3184 B534 0B5E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknaEuYACgkQe2QxhLU0C17vEwCg78FYz7JGqz1HaJIhia0nqVcA +FEAnjO52OZajbiBdnJQ6wkNBnB3GuLX =IdJK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org