[ox] Report from "We Seize!" - Wednesday
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:11:28 +0100
Hi!
One note: I'm just reporting in some detail on what I find
interesting. So this does not claim to be complete in any way.
So actually the conference started on Wednesday. There is some IRC
channel set up for the conference:
irc.indymedia.org:6667 #sconf
It is projected on the screen in the conference room and it is logged
at
http://irclogs.indymedia.org.uk/sconf/2003-12-10.html
I have been a bit late to the first session which was titled "INFOWAR:
REPORTS FROM THE FRONT". It was attended by about 30+ persons.
When I entered the session there was a presentation run by Jesus
Rogriguez (Venezuelan Community Media) (AFAIK) telling about the
situation in Venezuela in quite some breadth and detail. As someone
said even the topic of media has been touched at the beginning of the
presentation.
Just one impression from the discussion I found interesting. The
speaker said something that there is even too much freedom of
information in Venezuela. This has been picked up in the discussion.
To me there was an interesting differentiation between freedom to
create content and the freedom of access.
After that there was a presentation of Sasha Costanza-Chock (FTAA IMC
http://ftaaimc.org). He talked about all sorts of repression headed
against the Indymedia Center reporting on some protests and against
the protests themselves. He also presented some videos from the
physical events (you can not film a denial-of-service attack, can
you?).
I have also been a bit late to the second session which was titled
"HACK_IT!". It was attended by about 30+ persons. I don't have any
idea whether I missed some presentation or there has been none. The
discussion was quite interesting and there was also a rather Oekonuxy
thread in it.
[Please refer to the logged IRC stream because it is a quite good
documentation.]
The third session was titled "AUTONOMOUS MEDIA". It was attended by
about 30+ persons. Actually the persons which attended the sessions
were more or less the same BTW. However, the third session has been
attended by some persons which had come especially for that session.
This session has been started by DeeDee Halleck (DeepDish TV) from USA
who is into community radio. She mentioned a conference back in 1979
called WORK and showed a film from that time. The basic message as far
as I understood is the scarcity of bandwith / frequencies is a
problem. Then she went on telling about the news program "Democracy
Now!" which is produced by DeepDish for instance where it is
broadcasted in the USA.
After that there was a presentation by someone from hackitectura.net.
This project is about hacking architecture.
[Please refer to the logged IRC stream.]
After that some guy from South Korea made a presentation about the
projects he is involved in.
[Please refer to the logged IRC stream.]
Actually only the hackitectura.net presentation had some discussion
while the other presentations did not provoke any reaction. It was
interesting that a lot of people had laptops on their knees and you
never knew whether they are busy taking notes or check their email or
what else. So one of the features of real space meetings - you can see
whether people stilll pay attention - vanishes in such a setup.
Mit Freien Grüßen
Stefan
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