Re: is this the work of hactivists?

[stephen dixon <stib@start.com.au>]

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maggie knowles wrote:
>i was wondering if you considered Ulla Roder, Ellen Moxley and 
>Angie Zelter to be hackers.  they are the three old ladies
>(ages something like 47, 53 and 61) 

Whoa, a 47, 53 and 61 year old womyn are NOT "old ladies". Watch the
stereotypes there: does it sound better to say "old ladies" when
talking about direct action because it's playing against the image
that womyn over the age of 29 should be home knitting? But anyway..

>charged with malicious damage to<>floating laboratory<>for 
>Trident submarines.

Perhaps they're Luddites? Or if you want to sound hip, neo-Luddites. 

For those who might have missed it in hystory class (or if they were
teaching you "creation science" instead), the Luddites were
proto-socialists who believed that technology should improve the lives
of the workers and not just the elite. They hacked into the cotton
mills of early industrial revolution England (using a sledge hammer
they called a Jethro - it would be a good name for a bit of Hackware
wouldn't it? "Jethro 2.0").

I'd consider m'self a bit of a Luddite, I reckon in some ways they're
a prototype for Haktivists. They get bad press - in common usage it's
an insult to call someone a Luddite, but when you read the history
theirs was a pretty reasonable reaction to the inequity caused by the
coming of the industrial revolution.

-stib

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