URGENT - JOIN THE ACTION NOW!!
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        PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR
            FRIENDS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

       WE NEED AT LEAST 5,000 PEOPLE ONLINE OVER
           THE GLOBE TO MAKE THIS A SUCCESS!


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   the electrohippies collective
   http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/ehippies/



                   THE WTO VIRTUAL SIT-IN
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         THE E-HIPPIES WTO SIT-IN PAGES ARE NOW ONLINE -
                   COME AND JOIN THE ACTION!

      http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/ehippies/action/index.htm




   To coincide with the WTO's Seattle Conference, the electrohippies are
   organising - as their first major virtual action - a 'virtual sit-in'.
   To take part in the sit-in all you have to do is load the appropriate
web
   page and leave you computer online for a period of time; the longer the
   better!


   The Action
   ----------

   the electrohippies are organising a 'virtual sit-in' of the WTO's
   special conference website. It is intended that this website will be the
main
   conduit for accessing information about the conference, and the events
   taking place. By taking action against the conference server, and the
   main WTO server, we restrict the PR staff at the WTO from spreading
their
   global corporate agenda.

   To make this action effective requires thousands of people to be online.
   However, because of the global nature of the organisation involved we
   hope to be able to achieve this figure. This means that people will have
to
   consider the effect of different time zones this makes thing a little
   more complex.

   The sit-in will begin. . .
        08.00 USA & Canada (Pacific time), 30th November
        16.00 Greenwich Mean Time (UK/Ireland)
        17.00 Central Europe
        18.00 Eastern Europe
        21.30 Indian subcontinent
        00.00 Honk Kong/Singapore/Western Australia, December 1st
        02.00 Eastern Australia
        04.00 New Zealand

    . . and will finish four days later.


   To take part in the action all you need is an Internet connection, and a
   web browser. What people have to do is access the special web pages
   written for the action and then stay on line as long as they possible
can. For
   those with 'dial-up' access to the 'Net that means staying on line as
   long as you can afford, as often as possible, for the four days. If you
   cannot afford to spend much time online then concentrate on November
30th (or
   Dec. 1st for those in the East). But we would like people to aim to go
online
   from 12.00 Pacific time on December 3rd (add 4 hours to the above
   timetable for your local time) until the end of December 4th.

   For those of you with constant connections to the Internet - such as
   universities or corporations - the cost of being online isn't that
   significant. Therefore we'd urge you to stay on longer with more
   connections open. For those people with high speed dial-up connections
   or those with constant connections a 'special' version of the action web
   page is provided.

   NOTE: THERE IS ALSO A SPECIAL EMAIL BASED ACTION BEGINNING AT MIDDAY,
   YOUR
   LOCAL TIME, DECEMBER 3RD, AND CARRYING ON TILL DECEMBER 4TH. FOR MORE
   INFORMATION POP BACK TOT HE E-HIPPIES SITE ON DECEMBER 3RD.



   What is a 'virtual sit-in'
   --------------------------

   A sit-in is where a group of people place themselves in front of some
   sort of entry way, or inside a building, and remain there as a form of
   peaceful protest. That's not easy to achieve where the Internet is
involved.
   Therefore we have to find a way of occupying 'space' in cyberspace.

   This page has been developed from a similar facility - The Zapatista
   Tactical FloodNet. This page is a less flashy but equally functional
   alternative. The purpose of this page is simple. By accessing the WTO's
   websites using the Javascript-based pages you are in effect accessing
   repeatedly - as if you were pressing the 'reload' button on your browser
   every few seconds. The ability of a server to handle these requests
   depends on its bandwidth - that's the physical capacity to move data in
and out.
   For most servers bandwidth is split, and there is only a small
   proportion of the bandwidth devoted to data coming into the site
compared to data
   going out (this is because much more data flows out of web servers than
   flows in). So, constantly requesting information puts pressure on it's
   weakest point - it's incoming bandwidth.

   Using these pages to send multiple requests queues up requests to the
   web server. Ordinarily this is not a problem. But, if the server is
busy, or
   there are many people across the world using this same site to do the
   same thing, it starts to eat up the server's bandwidth. If enough people
were
   to do the same thing, it would prevent the server from being accessed.
   Eventually, if maintained for a longer period of time, it would
   temporarily crash the server.

   So, you get the idea. If enough people use this page at the same time,
   going for the same target, they'll gum up the server and prevent other
   'ordinary' users getting access. What this page is then is a form of
   remote cyber sit-in or cyber-picket - we occupy space in cyberspace!


   Follow-up actions
   -----------------

   The WTO action is the first electrohippies action. Others will follow on
   different themes and with different tactics. Mostly these will be based
   in the UK, and possibly Europe. If you would like to be put on a email
list
   to receive notices of when actions are due to take place then send an
email
   to mobbsey@gn.apc.org, marked "FAO ehippies" in the subject line.



   END




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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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Neoliberalismus. Let our resistance be as transnational as capital!
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