'Virtual sit-in' to coincide with WTO Conference

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    Please forward this to everyone you know!


  'VIRTUAL SIT-IN' AT A LEADING WEBSITE PLANNED TO
     COINCIDE WITH THE WTO's SEATTLE CONFERENCE

   For details of how to take part visit the NEW
            'electrohippies' website at:
        http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/ehippies/


   TARGET WILL BE REVEALED AT 00.01GMT, 30/11/99


A new website has started up to promote 'virtual activism' in the UK and
Europe. The site is all about taking action, and undertaking civil
disobedience, using the core of modern society - it's electronic information
and communications infrastructure. Why? Because technology
enables a lot of the destruction that takes place in the world, but like most
technology it is not innately bad - it's just the people who are in charge of
it. Technology also allows people to have anonymity because their
communications and planning are kept remote from the public arena.

What we're out to do is change all that by extending the philosophy of activism
and direct action into the 'virtual' world of electronic
information exchange and communications. Of course, in the scale of things we
can't hope to be more effecting than an annoying mosquito. But we can let them
know that the can't use technology as a veil to obscure the public's concern
about the future of the planet.

IN SUPPORT OF THE GLOBAL ACTION TO MARK THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION'S SEATTLE
CONFERENCE, WE WILL BE PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO
TAKE PART IN AN ON-LINE 'VIRTUAL SIT-IN'.

At midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, on the 30th November, the 'action page' will
be loaded with information on how you can register your protest against the
WTO's Seattle conference. The page will operate for seven days.

We hope that during this period you will access this page as often as possible
and take part in the sit-in. There will be precise details
posted on November 30th. There will also be files to download in order to set
up mirror-site's on your own server in order to spread the capacity of the
sit-in. If you would like to receive the files direct by email on November the
30th, along with all the information on how to run the sit in from where ever
you are in the world, then send a request to ehippies@tesco.net.

We hope that you enjoy participating in this event.

Once again, the address of the site is:

http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/ehippies/



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from the electrohippies - ehippies@tesco.net

visit the Electronic Activism and Civil Disobedience website:

http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/ehippies/

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