Void Network shares with all friends through Void Mirror blog the important short film …And War Has Just Yet Begun…by Party Imaginaire The 18′ film is a romantic and cruel political/philosophical analysis through a poetic narration of every day life filmic fragments mixed with moments of riots Party Imaginaire is a ghost, a dream, a secret plan, a rumour, a weapon of imagination and critical mind in the hands of…
What is Survival? Survival is the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. We were founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK’s Sunday Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia. Like many modern atrocities, the racist oppression of Brazil’s Indians took place in the name of ‘economic growth’.Today, Survival has supporters in 82 countries. We work for tribal peoples’…
Wandering about the lack of serious invitations or preparations from the side of Italian Movement against the meeting of G8 leaders in Italy during July 2009,… as we are searching for voices of revolt and resistance in Italian society, as we observe the Italian antagonistic movement to follow the way of the Left parties into oblivion, as we observe the Italian fascists to take more and more power in Italy…
This is a letter we recieved from Chuck Manson for Infoshop.com and Infoshop News…We are asking all our friends to consider their participation and economical help to Infoshop as a really important move for the meintenance of the undergound global network of news, theory and information Dear Friends,I’m asking my friends and comrades to consider making a financial donation to the Infoshop.org project. I know that many of us are…
Maintaining the Borders: identity & politics Jamie Heckert 30 October 2002 Identity is the process of creating and maintaining borders, creating different kinds of people. This keeps the world packaged in tidy little boxes. These boxes, in turn, are necessary for the violence and domination of hierarchical societies. There cannot be masters or slaves, bosses or workers, men or women, whites or blacks, leaders or followers, heterosexuals or queers, without…
On the wayto Copenhagen Cop15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2009 , as all the financial and political powers that destroy the Earth prepare to make their elitist appearance, spreading delusion to the people of this planet and organizing crisis, ecological panik and nature destruction into a new profitable fairy-tale for the masses WE ARE PREPARING ALSO A SPECIAL “CONFERENCE” WITH ALL OF THEM!: This is a message…
French authorities on Thursday authorised the release of Julien Coupat (Tarnac 9) , who has been detained for more than six months on suspicion of sabotaging high-speed train lines, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Julien Coupat, 34, was arrested by anti-terrorist police in November 2008 and his lengthy detention without charges being filed had become highly controversial. His arrest was part of a wider swoop on members of what Interior…
This important video is based in the book of Naomi Klain The Shock Doctrine and in this edition the film is with Spanish subtitles [please share and distribute this film] In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is…
“These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the ‘battles’ between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent people; arrests are still…
Yoni Goodman, one of the creators of “Waltz with Bashir”, which won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award, today launched a new animated short film entitled “Closed Zone”. He created the short for “Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement”. The 90-second film mixes animation with realistic shots to depict the closure imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel for more than 1.5 years. Through…
artwork: Void Network Guy Debord, In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimurm Igni: a Film. London: Pelagian Press, 1991. film review written by Stefan Pfohl Permit yourself to drift from what you are reading at this very moment into another situation, another way of acting within the historical and psychic geographies in which the event of your own reading is here and now taking place; here and now taking the place of…
Enraged About Corporate Greed? Kidnap Your Boss By Christopher Ketcham, AlterNet. Posted April 30, 2009The French have taken to bossnapping — “sequestering” their bosses while keeping them comfortable and safe — to protest economic unfairness. In answer to their own economic crisis, the French have taken up “bossnapping.” Here’s how it works: An executive of a company, perhaps the CEO, stands before a group of his employees, puts his hands…
In the aftermath of Congressional approval of bailout legislation granting sweeping powers to the financial elite, the body politic appears to be helplessly mired in the relentless unfolding of classical fascism before its very eyes. Coming to terms with this terrifying predicament can benefit from a primer that renders naked the forms of raw power used by the global elite in advancing its agenda for full spectrum dominance. This will…
In Part I of “Deconstructing the Power of the Global Elite,” I discussed a threefold model of power: Brute Force, the Power to Hurt and Psychological Control. In Part II, I will address several forms of psychological control designed to induce states of mind that are inherently disempowering, that eliminate or severely diminish our will to take corrective action in the face of grievous harm. As stated in a famous…
Warning to Mayor Bloomberg and his machine:Don’t underestimate the revolutionary movement from the below! Rebel Diaz!Watch your backs! This family oriented video is the response to the unjust actions and the unnecessary push for a third term by Mayor Bloomberg. He has to be held accountable for the police murders and brutality, for lack of housing, for being an investor in so much of the gentrification going on in Brooklyn,…
moments after this man died UK Police Killed a Man at London G20, new video evidence: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2009/apr/07/g20-protest-death-police-assault Some people have started a call out for actions at UK Embassies at 12noon this Friday, 10 April, to call for charges of murder for the officer who is reponsible for the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 inLondon. There is a new video just in the last few hours (this is…
With the installation of photovoltaic cells in Prapopoulou Squat Athens,Greece starts an experiment of collective ownership and self-management ofenergy sources willing to cover our energy needs. 4 April11:00: collectively installation of photovoltaic cells and sharing skills.19:00: Self learning seminar of the function and installation ofphotovoltaics cells 5 April11:00: collectively installation of photovoltaic cells and sharingskills(continue)19:00: Update about copenghagen 2009 call for climate action by Farmacollective, conversation about radical ecology and…
As a single mother of five and a prominent activist who has come under threat by the police, government and now even the middle-class in her own community, Maureen Msisi asks for solidarity and advice to give her more courage to push forward the struggle of the poor. This is not the first time that Maureen’s life and family has been in danger because of her campaigns for the interests…
Void Network proudly accomodates some of the paintings from the Greek painter BabaGian For more info navigate in: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=390571154
A convenient truth about climate change: why most of the major powers really want global warming by David Lempert and Hue Nhu Nguyen 12/02/2009 If you read the international press, it is easy to be convinced that the international “debate” about global warming is about whether international organisations and country governments are able to “wake up” to alarming news about the future of the planet. But if you actually read…
people fromGAZA WILL NEVER FORGET CHRISTMAS 2008 and JANUARY 2009 : MASSACRE OF PALESTINIANS by israelian army with the help of U.S.A. and European Union we will never forget! Gaza And Its Aftermath Noam Chomsky interviewed by Assaf Kfoury February 09, 2009 By Noam Chomsky and Assaf Kfoury For more than three weeks, starting December 27th, Gaza and its 1.5 million people bore the brunt of a massive Israeli military…
Void Network in the last week participates in the occupation of the central National Opera Hall in Athens / Greece together with more than 600 artists, activists, anarchists, romantics and utopians. Central National Opera Hall is a place of the city characterized as the main center of the “high-arts”, the “royal arts”, the state-arts of the minister of culture, the culture of the bourgouasie…Continuing the insurrection of December, we become…
In the memory of Brad Will murdered in Oaxaca by Mexican police and government officials The Oaxacan People’s Insurrection for Dignity By Korinta Maldonado written in 13 November 2006 On the dawn of Friday, October 27, 2006, news about the assassination of the New York independent media reporter Brad Will by paramilitary forces in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico reverberated throughout the world. This day marked the beginning of…
Mixing animation with archival footage, CHICAGO 10 explores the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial of 8 activists set up as scapegoats by The Government of the 1968 Democratic Convention demonstration against the Vietnam War. CHICAGO 10 is a parable of hope, courage and ultimate victory, the story of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and armed government. For…
In 10 January 2009 around 75,000 people gathered in London to express their disgust at the barbaric invasion of Gaza by the Israeli military. Demonstrators marched to the Israeli embassy and were met by police who had clearly planned for a violent confrontation. Police in riot armour and Nato helmets were deployed from within the embassy after shoes were thrown at it and the situation quickly transforms into rioting a…
“I’m sorry my car was burned but the issue is very upsetting.” -Ken Epstein, assistant editor of the Oakland Post, who was finishing an article about Grant’s death, watched from the 12th story of his office at 14th and Franklin streets as his 2002 Honda CR-V disintegrated in a roar of flames (Oakland Tribune)The murder of Oscar Grant by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Johannes Mehserle early New…
FREE THE SHMINISTIM – ISRAEL’S YOUNG CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories. December 18 marks the launch date of a global campaign to release them from jail. Join over 20,000 people and show your support by contacting the Israeli Minister of Defense using the form IN THIS LINK. 22,000 LETTERS AND…
info comes from the International Solidarity Movement http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/ gathered with the help of members from Anarchists Against The Wall http://www.awalls.org/about_aatw Unedited footage: Sunday 28th December 2008 – pharmacy in Hi Alijnina, Rafah https://rcpt.yousendit.com/638627350/e779b3fe56d949f81b46f8b930d272d8 Shortly before 7:00am on Sunday 28th December, yet another Israeli missile strike hit the residential neighbourhood of Hi Alijnina in the southern Gaza town of Rafah , just 50 metres down the street from where I’m staying.…
Gaza / Palestine News Network – Reports indicate that 13 Palestinians from the same family were killed when Israeli forces targeted an eastern Gaza City house. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said this afternoon that Israeli forces in Gaza have killed 599 Palestinians. Dr. Hassanein of the Ministry of Health said today that Israeli forces have killed 195 Palestinian children since the operation began and injured 2,730 people with…
Palestine doesn’t get to have a 9/11 by Justin PodurIn September 2001, a group of terrorists from al Qaeda killed over three thousand Americans in New York. US friends and enemies alike condemned the attacks and the attackers. Debates that occurred were about how discriminate America should be in seeking revenge and justice. The horrors of 9/11 are invoked whenever questions arise about US occupations of Iraq or Afghanistan. The…
This an article written by MIFTAH/ The Plaestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy and we feel the obligation to publish it here as a part of our efforts to understand better the background of the massacre against Palestinians by the Israelian government There is no point in preparing an introduction to this article. Why waste words on compositional niceties when the only thing I can offer…
THE STATE MURDERS! On Saturday December 6, 2008, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year old comrade, was murdered in cold blood, with a bullet in the chest by a cop in the area of Exarchia. Contrary to the statements of politicians and journalists who are accomplices to the murder, this was not an “isolated incident”, but an explosion of the state repression which systematically and in an organised manner targets those who…