(this was a bit of a dud…bring back the good old fashioned denial of service attacks I say)
This is on at 1230 Today (Melbourne Time…more details link)
Start: 17/11/2006 – 12:30pm
End: 19/11/2006 – 1:00pm
Timezone: Etc/GMT+10
Whats happening?
At midday on Friday the 17th of November the Online Resistance Alliance is calling a virtual sit-in of the G20.org website. Starting at midday, this action shall continue for half an hour each day, until the conference finalises on Sunday the 19th, with the largest action to take place on Saturday the 18th. This has been organised to coincide with and complement the vast street protests taking place in Melbourne against the 2006 G20 meeting.How do I participate?
To join the virtual sit-in simply visit www.G20.org and start downloading some of the many publications available in the ‘Publications’ section. Once they have finished downloading, download them again, and repeat. Through the collective action of all participants continually requesting information from the G20 server, it will become jammed.What is electronic civil disobedience (ECD)?
In 1848 Henry David Thoreau published Civil Disobedience stemming from his own personal refusal to pay a poll tax as an expression of his opposition to the United States’ war against Mexico. Throughout the last few decades, this tactic has been utilised by numerous grassroots social movements as an effective tool to voice their opinion. In 1996 with the growing use of the internet to exchange information the Critical Art Ensemble published their own book, Electronic Civil Disobedience. For more information see On Electronic Civil Disobedience by Stefan Wray available at http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/oecd.html
