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Hackean the web Loquesomos.org In the anniversary of the II Spanish Republic

17-04-2009 16:21

The republican community came 6 years publishing a web in defence of the freedom of communication

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DFEY-NW :: 25th April @ BBC Manchester

16-04-2009 15:10


DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs.

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Whitehall to train pro-West Islamic groups to game Google

10-04-2009 08:27

Whitehall officials will train pro-West Islamic groups to manipulate their Google search ranking in an attempt to drown out extremist voices online, The Register has learned.

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Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

09-04-2009 21:21

We're arresting you for speeding.
What's the speed limit, officer?
The speed limit is secret.

Shortly after 9pm on Tuesday March 24, Wikileaks related buildings in Dresden and Jena, were raided by 11 plain clothes German police  http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Hausdurchsuchung_bei_WikiLeaks.de_Domaininhaber .

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electrohippies: World Intellectual Privateers Day, April 26th 2009

08-04-2009 23:22

the electrohippies are calling upon people around the globe to celebrate World Intellectual Privateers Day on April 26th 2009. In a concerted action across the Internet, we call upon people to select a piece of information or other creative work which should be in the public domain, but which is chained by the rules of intellectual privateering rights (IPRs), and to re-appropriate it for the people of the world to share in common by publishing it as widely as possible on-line.

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Did anyone see this: Blood & Honour (users, IPs, messages)?

08-04-2009 21:20

Full site dump from Blood and Honour. People who really do "sieg heil" each other at the end of their conversations.

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Subvurt: Surveillance with The CCTV Caberet

08-04-2009 12:15

Tuesday April 14th 7pm at The Britons Protection (show starts 7.30)

A night of ace music, short films, comedy ranting and miscellaneous shenanigans about public space, civil liberties, the database state and more. Prepare to laugh, cry, sigh and get angry...

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The UK Minority Report: Has 'Precrime' Finally Arrived?

03-04-2009 11:51

The UK’s new Channel Project heralds the unofficial beginning of British law enforcement’s own ‘Pre-crime’ program. In this brave new world of pre-emptive measures, are civil liberties becoming a thing of the past?

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DARPA Project Finished

01-04-2009 01:12

A project funded by American Department of Defense has finally reached completion.

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Minutes of Manchester NO2ID Meeting, March 2009

31-03-2009 23:18

Manchester NO2ID Logo
Manchester NO2ID meeting, 18th March 2009, 7pm-9pm at the Town Hall Tavern, Tib Lane.

Thanks to Helen for taking and typing up minutes; a version with links is at  http://manchester.no2id.net/story/minutes-manchester-no2id-meeting-march-2009

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4th Oekonux Conference: Free Software and Beyond - The World of Peer Production

29-03-2009 21:26

Audio Marcin Jakubowski - Open Source Global Village
Attached are some recordings of some of the sessions from the 4th Oekonux Conference, Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production  http://fourth.oekonux-conference.org/ which was organised in in cooperation with the P2P Foundation,  http://p2pfoundation.net/ and which was held in Manchester on 27th to 29th March 2009.

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Indymedia G20 Reporting Telephone Numbers + More

27-03-2009 21:28

Help report what's happening by sending your reports from the streets. There are two Indymedia reporting numbers
(operating 10.30am Sat 28th March - 2nd April):

07588 479 039 : For calling in reports from events - remember the 'who what when where why' - and also for sending txt msg updates and MMS picture messages.

08444 870 157: For calling in to leave a short audio recording that can be uploaded to the website.

(If you do send pictures or audio messages, do not forget to include the location and time).

Twitter: If you are using twitter and have a report or update for Indymedia, include the hashtag #imcg20 in your message (see below for more info).

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Nuclear power producers scared of wind power

26-03-2009 21:34

The French government-owned power monopoly EdF and the German power giant E.ON have warned the British government they may be forced to drop plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants in that country unless the government scales back its targets for wind power.

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No2ID Sheffield Meeting

26-03-2009 13:39

NO2ID is getting organised in Sheffield. There was a successful meeting in Sheffield at the Harlequin Pub last night, with plans being made to raise the awareness of the campaign and the the threats to our privacy.

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NO CCTV Meeting - 30th March, 8pm The Mitre, High St, Oxford

26-03-2009 01:14

No CCTV Oxford's next meeting.

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Brown Gets In You Facebook!

25-03-2009 13:32

If Brown’s government minister’s get their own way everyone who uses a social network like Bebo, Facebook, Myspace or Twitter - some 25 million people in the UK - will have their conversations logged and stored on a central government database. The excuse, as usual, is that it’s for our own safety - if we’ve done nothing wrong then we’ve got nothing to fear.

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Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK’s public databases, says report

23-03-2009 15:16

A new report entitled Database State by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust shows just how far towards fascism the modern UK state is leaning. The so called ‘War on Terror’ has been used to introduce practices and laws that our forebears would have found utterly abhorrent (in fact our ancestors have won hard fought battles throughout history to ensure basic freedoms for all - Magna Carta anyone?). The excuses are always the same “It’s for your protection.” and “The innocent have nothing to fear.”

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Disarmers arrested at weapons factory in Linköping, Sweden

22-03-2009 23:27

Fifth plowshares or disarmament action in Sweden since June 2008

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wikid welsh vegetables?

21-03-2009 09:19

Internal bank memos about alleged tax avoidance were withdrawn from Guardian website after lawyers obtained emergency temporary injunction

BUT (hush hush) they ARE available on Wikileaks (secure.wikileaks.org)

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U.K. to monitor, store all social-network traffic?

19-03-2009 18:23

An article on CNET is reporting that: "The U.K. government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo."