With the Internet now dominating nearly every aspect of modern life, U.S. control of the medium has become a sensitive topic worldwide. In nations that try to control what people can see and hear, the Internet often is the only source of uncensored news and opinion.

Call for Panelists
Round-Table Session on Technology, Media and Activism, 2006 Summer Program
Friday, June 16th

Appel aux panelistes
Session table ronde sur la technologie, les médias et l’activisme, Programme d’été 2006
Vendredi le 16 juin

Independent Media Group subMedia (http://submediatv.com) has released its first DVZ (DVD/Zine) ‘‘Molotov’’ as a free download on the Bittorrent network. subMedia founder Franklin Lopez made the announcement last week, after the last ‘hard copy’ of ‘‘Molotov’’ was sold to a costumer in Norway.

 
The Koumbit Network (koumbit.org) and the Centre for Media Alternatives - Quebec (cmaq.net - quebec.indymedia.org) would like to denounce the recent seizure of Indymedia Bristol (UK) equipment, and express the collective feeling of anxiety among their members with regards to repeated attempts at censoring alternative media.

 
Free software, peer-to-peer file sharing, independent media networks -- all these developments demonstrate the ease with which information can be copied and transmitted these days. Such galloping advancements in the realm of 'digital freedom' are nonetheless directly threatened by new restrictions on "intellectual property" being pushed by enormous commercial interests, as well as the general atmosphere of paranoia stirred under the banner of the so-called 'war on terror'.

It's against this backdrop that Montreal will host, this Sunday, July the 3rd, a visit from the great Richard M. Stallman. RMS -- as he is affectionately known by geeks worldwide -- is the man behind the idea of free software, the revolutionary concept of copyleft, and the GNU project (at the base of the GNU/Linux operating system). He is also a notorious and tireless promoter of digital freedom [...]

CMAQ volunteers will be on hand at UQAM this Sunday to document the proceedings -- multimedia files will be posted here as soon as they are available.

 
As of the last posted update (9:30 AM Tuesday), the Solidarity Across Borders marchers are on their way from Kanehsatake to St-André Est.

While we wait for another update, check out the audio links from the march so far (days 1 through 4) -- if you can play them, the OGG files are better quality :

DAY 4 : 1: OGG/MP3
DAY 3 : 1: OGG/MP3 2: OGG/MP3 3: OGG/MP3 4: OGG/MP3 5: OGG/MP3 6: OGG/MP3 7: OGG/MP3
DAY 2 : 1: OGG/MP3 2: OGG/MP3 3: OGG/MP3 4: OGG/MP3
DAY 1 : 1: OGG/MP3 2: OGG/MP3 3: OGG/MP3 4: OGG/MP3 5: OGG/MP3 6: OGG/MP3

.. more media from DAY 1 :

•  more audio is also available here thanks to http://radioactiveradio.org/
•  a short film from the start of the march has been uploaded by O.D. Asselin
•  A mini videoclip shot in the evening and featuring a performance by Nomadic Massive is also available

 
CMAQ's PatC talks with 'illegal' Egyptian refugee Amir Hodod about regularization of non-status people in Canada as the Solidarity Across Borders march to Ottawa winds down for the day in Côte-des-Neiges' Kent Park.

Dans cette cinquième capsule audio en direct de la Marche SSF pour les droits de réfugiéEs, PatC discute [en anglais] de la régularisation des sans-statut avec le réfugié égyptien Amir Hodod.

FORMAT: MP3
LENGTH: 2:43
SIZE: 160 KB

(a higher-quality OGG version is available here)

 

A second audio capsule by PatC, reporting straight from the Solidariy Across Borders march to Ottawa.
The marchers are now in Montreal's Parc Ex neighbourhood, having made their way north across the Plateau district. They are resting there momentarily before heading for Kent Park in Côte-des-Neiges, where a massive street party will take place tonight.
Recorded 4:56 PM by PatC, June 18th, 2005.

Deuxième d'une série de capsules audio en direct de la marche SSF vers Ottawa -- enregistrée à 16h56, le 18 juin 2005 par PatC du CMAQ [en anglais].
Les marcheurs sont rendus dans Parc Extension et se reposent un peu avant de se diriger vers Côte-des-Neiges, où un party de quartier aura lieu ce soir.

FORMAT: MP3
DURÉE / LENGTH: 1min 30s
TAILLE / SIZE: 88,5 KB

(a better-quality OGG version is available here)

 
Mass-produced computers can KILL Microsoft and free the world's computer users. They'll be too cheap to accommodate MS Windows -- MS's bread and butter. Computers will go the way of TVs and VCRs -- cheap offshore (non-USA) production. They'll be cheap, simple, general-purpose (FREE SOFTWARE), all-electronic (no disk drive) -- in other words, real electronic computers, finally. READ ABOUT THE OPENING SHOT, MOBILIS, FIRED IN BANGALORE, INDIA, ON MAY 26, 2005.

Workers of the whole world, the issue is not to struggle for a charitable but impossible citizen's income, or for wages that will never ever be guaranteed, but to struggle to overthrow this society based on the exploitation of wage labour