marko jp!
interested in having guests? november 3rd, 4th?
the crowd of 35 students from my school is coming. and me as their teaching assistant… on joint programme with your school…
dubi
ps i will be in munich from 23-28th october, anyone in neighbourghood then?

posted by dubravka
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:01:11 GMT

So this is about Swiss police, on a French site, on a server in England, taken away by American federal police… – Micah


<edited by sennahoj>

getting the facts right :
hard discs were in fact not seized by neither police nor FBI, but actually given to the investigational organ by the provider, Rackspace itself, for reasons not yet puvlicised.
other sites like the dutch indymedia-page published links to the newspaper Radikal , which boasted with article about railway sabotage . the swiss site had to be closed down after being sued for hosting antisemitic tenors.

</edited by sennahoj>


INDYMEDIA PRESS RELEASE

7 October 2004

FBI Seizes IMC Servers in the UK

US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace’s office in the US ordering them to provide Indymedia’s hardware located in London to the requesting agency. Rackspace is one of Indymedia’s web hosting providers with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia’s server in the UK. This affects some 20+ Indymedia sites worldwide.

Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia. Talking to Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that “they cannot provide Indymedia with any information regarding the order.” ISPs have received gag orders in similar situations which prevent them from updating the concerned parties on what is happening.

It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.

At the same time a second server was taken down at Rackspace which provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro), and a handful of miscellanous things.

The last few months have seen numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government. In August the Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the Netherlands. Last month the FCC shut down community radio stations around the US. Two weeks ago the FBI requested that Indymedia takes down a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss police and IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the same issue. On the other hand, Indymedia and other independent media organisations were successfull with their victories for example against Diebold and the Patroit Act. Today however, the US authorities shut down IMCs around the world.

The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, part of the Germany site, and the global Indymedia Radio site.

End press release
FBI seizes Global Indymedia Servers. Reasons Unknown. Background Info:

Irish imc
www.indymedia.ie

nantes imc
nantes.indymedia.org

urbana champaign (US)imc
www.ucimc.org

posted by duncan
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:56:24 GMT

the land of sex and sinners

”For most of its past Ireland was notorious for possessing the most carefree moral outlook in Christendom. While current permissiveness is viewed as a completely modern phenomena in fact several millennia of unique and often shockingly broadminded attitudes form the core of Irish sexual history. The Land of Sex and Sinners traces the complete timeline of Irish sexual and gender development from the mysterious sexio-religious rites of pre-history to the all too blatant teenage coming-of-age rituals of contemporary life.”

This is the intro to the excellent documentary made mostly in gaeilge (irish) directed by Jimmy Duggan and financed by TG4, irelands native speaking TV channel (only @ 8 years old)The documentary appeared in the stranger than fiction documentary festival in the IFI, Irish film institute. the screening was followed by an open panel discussion which was very wide ranging.The documentary will be screened in 4 parts by TG4 in the upcoming weeks.

what i gathered from the film and the discussion was roughly the following:
-In the past we lived in a healthy balanced age
-This changed into the unhealthy and unbalanced age we live in today
-A paradigm shift is happening in society, a REbalance is (re)emerging

5000 years ago Neolithic farming communities lived on this land and it is widely believed that there was balance between the masculine and the feminine in all aspects of the civilisation. The soil, the water, the earth being the fertile receptive motherlike deity and the sun with its life force energy being the direct masculine deity. When joined in union, the masculine and the feminine created life. Fertility was recognised, understood and celebrated.

the amazing architecture and buildings of the time give us best evidence to back up this theory
The Megalithic Passage Tombs of Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth, Fourknocks, Loughcrew and Tara are located in the present day County of Meath on the east coast of Ireland. The Boyne Valley Mounds at Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth were built around 3200BC making them older than Stonehenge in England and the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
The Winter Solstice sunrise illuminates the passage way leading into the burial chamber of the megalithic passage tomb at Newgrange on the 21st December 2003



so for only 1 day in the year the act of penetration is played out and demonstrated by the architecture, the shaft of light representing the penis enters the vagina and fills up the womb of the chamber (this is not meant in anyway to be rude, as some might find it, it is merely communicating the facts)


With the arrival of the bronze age came increased warfare and competition, more male charateristix. the architecture began to change from the round mounds to phalluss or standing stones

this more or less continued untill todays age we live in
where conflict and competition are at there most brutal highest
but something has changed

we are part of the Paradigm Shift
that is slowly affecting all levels of civilisation

as Fritjof Capra
states in the second edition of his best selling book “the tao of physics“(1975), written 15 years after the first one
i paraphrase
”the existing major problems of our time are all facets of one single crisis, a crisis of perception. An outdated worldview existed for several hundred years which included the belief that a society in which the female is everywhere subsumed under the male is `natural`. There was a need of radical revision and this revision is already happening in many areas of life. The new emerging worldview is an ecological worldview that is grounded in spiritual awareness. This `rising culture` is growing and becoming a powerful force of social transformation”
in his later book “the hidden connections” (2003) Capra states that the event that changed the “political landscape of the age” was the closure of the WTO (world trade organisation) talks in Seattle in 1999 by the global justice movement
you can watch Capra give a free archived “berkley lecture” webcast

at present in ireland the government is trying to build a motorway through one of irelands most sacred sites, the hill of Tara. This was the centre of government, the place where the high king of ireland ruled the land. in the film Queen Maoibh was depicted as being the ruler, the soon to be king having to have sex with her to sign the deal.
a campaign is underway to avert this crazy idea, it is gatehring momentum and perhaps could become the metaphor for our age

more speed, more roads, more cars, more wars
and who cares about that which is held sacred
or bring about a more sustainable balanced existence

After the discussion i was talking with the academic from Trinity, Mary Condren Th.D whom I was very impressed with. She is the author of the book “the serpent and the goddess” and is invovled with the The Institute for Feminism and Religion

So it seems theres a lot to learn about these dynamics that are affecting our society and left unaddressed could lead to full on destruction of our species and maybe the planet too.


After the discussion, and after getting distracted by bumping into old friends from years back i finally got to the table and had a bite to eat and a very livley chat about this and that with my housemate kate.
We were sitting there at a table for four and the two girls beside us got up and with that an elderly couple came over and asked if they could sit down, it was empty so they did. We said to them “are you going to see a film” they said yes that they were going to the next screening about chernobyl
because they support the charity, children of chernobyl, that is headed by ali hewson, bono from U2`s wife.
”Chernobyl Heart shows the invisible trail radiation leaves behind. The film opens in the exclusion zone, the most radioactive environment on earth”

so the conversation developed along lines of
us-fair play for supporting this, well done
them-its great to see young people like yourselves here
us-well its great that there is more and more things like this happening, that people are becoming politicised and with that taking action to try to improve things.
them-thats very encouraging
it was about this point that the lady said “by the way im Anne Madden and this is Louis le Brocquy i said “im duncan” and kate said “im kate”.
Louis le Brocquy is one of irelands leading artists and even though i dont like a lot of modern art i do happen to enjoy his work. this is one of his paintings of Beckett, whom i believe he was friends with in france

(irish abroad, irish home, the land of saints and scholars???)
so the conversation continued and we got talking about how, roughly, theres bad things going on in the world but they can be overcome and indeed there is a growing body that is challenging injustices in todays world.
they are doing this because they are being informed by the emergence of more stories, documentaries, festivals, centres, spectacles….

but aswell as this it is not a case of “come here we know how all should live”,as happened previously but of people from all backgrounds in society coming around the table as equals. to add to this people who had never been asked to the table before are being asked to give their views, and just maybe “jimmy” is the lad who sees things that others dont, maybe one simple bit of wisdom from him is exactly what is needed to solve the problem?

from there the idea that artistic creativity instead of violence was the way to change things was explored
anne was invovled with and knew many of the people involved in the “revolution” in paris `68 and one of her theories was that as a result of absolute barbarity the opposite is formed, that of absolute creativity
which is perhaps coincidental as that morning i had put a piece online on the architectural schools website

about the situationists who were heavily involved with `68

i gave the example i like and have participated in, the berlin love parade
in cold war 80`s berlin people protested, they were ANTI this, anti that but then in 1989, 150 people in berlin had a demonstration FOR tolerance, respect and communication between nations. not only that but they decided to be creative and they turned it into a little free techno party on the streets. 10 years later and there was 1.5million people dancing on the streets of berlin,

and it rocked

kate asked me would i have a drink and she asked them would they like something, instead they insisted on buying a bottle of wine for the table. So this fine positive conversation continued untill their film was starting when they had to run. it was a pleasure to have had such a livley discussion with such interesting, creative, interested people

during the conversation i also mentioned state of emergency and the fact that i am still banned from irelands architectural online community, archeire.
but thankfully i have started participating and working with, in my opinion, the most progressive global networks on the planet; indymedia and social forum

i had previously announced at the end of the post screening documentary that the second irish social forum was on this weekend

so thats about it
we are in the process of setting up the

dublin ECG (eco city group) node and from that helping develop the botanix spine and a healthier metro system, the interconnector than the one being proposed by the government at present

the IFI stuff has acted as a fine catalyst

Stranger Than Fiction is the only annual festival dedicated to celebrating the best of factual film and television in Ireland.

posted by duncan
Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:58:19 GMT

marko, nice little holiday link on the site… ;-)

flo_ch

posted by schrott
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:29:10 GMT

Hi all! Do anyone have an information (contacts, full names, themes of lectures) about lectors/tutors of last 2 EASA’s (Denmark, France)?
It’s wery important both for my master’s thesis and for SESAM in Belarus…
Help, please!!!

posted by gosha
Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:10:03 GMT

gosha! and others needing visas for incm…
please send me the data as soon as possible so we an send invitation letters…
do it!
[tired] dubi

posted by dubravka
Sat, 02 Oct 2004 09:33:19 GMT

did anybody else receive letter from Vincenzo di Siena, tutor of ‘follow the ribbon’ workshop??? it arrived by post this morning from Rome….

jovan_uk.

posted by jovan
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:39:03 GMT

i finally managed 2 finish school project for port of belgrade [some of u know how great prob that was ;)]
so here is the photo of model… [as promised 2 adam ;)]



kiss 2 all
dubi

posted by dubravka
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:58:33 GMT

… back the pictures of my vienna-trip in spring.
made me think of schnitzel ;-)


- symbols(i) (?) – “no house is built for eternity” –


- signs(i) – need anymore info? –


- signs(ii) – facing the fact that i definitely am from rural countryside –


- symbols(ii) –

alx_be

posted by rimbaud
Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:44:35 GMT

easa005.ch – how to get there



posted by schrott
Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:14:45 GMT

hello everybody

after our stressful action with mails, calls and sms some time ago, tobi went to bergün to meet the responsible for the buildings, and it looks like we’re on a good way. one of the next steps will be to set up a contract.

concerning the web, our under construction page looks a bit nicer. tonight, i’m also gonna correct the date ;-) from now on, i will do my best to make that thing a bit more interactive, if work allows… but check it out: www.easa005.ch

bye flo_ch

posted by schrott
Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:12:19 GMT

We are developing the program of SESAM 2005 in Belarus.

Theme:”Architecture at death’s door”
Time: last week of april/first week of may.

This is just a prevent analysis of your interest… answer, please!

Full information will be avalible soon on the web site of the action.

We’ll be ready to receive 30 – 45 participants.

Some information about Belarus is here:
bi.org.by

posted by gosha
Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:34:59 GMT

The 7 phases of project handling:
1. stage: enthusiasm
2. stage: confusion
3. stage: disillusion
4. stage: mass escape of the responsibles
5. stage: search of the guilties
6. stage: punishment of the innocents
7. stage: award of the non-involved

posted by rimbaud
Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:02:39 GMT

Working on a theme “Living in a skyscraper”, and as i think this is the best place to search for help in architecture. It is easy to get information on the history and foreigh experience, constructive particulars, evacuation standarts and vertical communications, and all the stuff like that but nothing about medical factors that influence building standarts for skyscapers and by the way who is that people who live in a high-rise buildings? Are they young, or not, may be rich, or perhaps buisnessmans??? Anyway do they feel safe and comfortable? How is it to live in a sky? Wish you can help me at list with advice if not with information. THX anyway

Being in Tokyo at the time and feel upset that will
have to miss incm in Blg. Anyway, will do my best to send the presentation on the diploma works’004 of Moscow Architectural Institute.

Kisses,
Inara ru nc

posted by inara
Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:58:34 GMT

paradeiser!!!!
heard that chocolate sucks in the states, how true is that? will be flying over maine somewhat around 02:00 hours CET on the 3rd of oct..destination hell a….can we meet in vegas? improve on easa budgets? could you please just give me a few tips of what crucial stuff is irreplaceable across the atlantic?

otherwise a shitty rainy morning in lj…in expectations of the school finally allowing us to enroll into another year….still didn’t happen…and won’t for some more days…

posted by jera
Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:52:51 GMT