The activated cells of Void Network from many different cities of this planet are meeting in London…We use a wonderful huge building in the center of London and we try to bring our creative revolutionary action into the center of the darkness of this world…We try to establish a powerful and experienced collective of comrades here in London that will enforce the activities of Global Eye (London Void Network) and… …
This is an article written from the philosopher Giorgio Agamben in solidarity to the 12 young Anarchist-Autonomist French people that had been arrested and accused for terrorism under totalitarian European laws…In this article the philosopher proves the “phantasm-fascism” that gets stronger and stronger in Europe and U.S.A through the passivity, the obeying and the stupidity of the “modern” masses TERRORISM OR TRAGICOMEDY? On the morning of November 11,… …
DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIPS OF AFFINITY “Today the spirit drowns in a mass of chance encounters. We are looking for those who are still alive enough to support each other beyond this; those fleeing Normal Life. “ -Against Sleep and Nightmare We live in a society in which most of our encounters have already been defined in terms of predetermined roles and relationships in which we have no say. A randomness… …
UK Government DNS Take-Over http://gnuru.org/article/1389/uk-government-dns-take-over The UK government, with a long track record of authoritarian measures has a new goal: a clampdown on the DNS system. The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, run by former Young Communist League member, Peter Mandelson is making a power grab for Nominet the company that runs the UK DNS system. BERR wrote a letter to the chairman of Nominet which contains the… …
African child ‘well-being’ rated By Emily Buchanan Some poor countries have scored well compared to richer ones in a report assessing the treatment of children in African nations. The African Child Policy Forum, an independent advocacy agency, ranked 52 countries in a “child-friendly index”. Amongst the top 10 were Namibia and Malawi, which did far better than richer countries like Sudan and Angola. Mauritius was top and Guinea-Bissau bottom in… …
Australians march against climate change Tens of thousands of Australians took part in mass protests around the country on Saturday to call for tough government action on climate change, organizers said. For the last three years every November happening huge demonstrations. The demonstrations were held as Australia prepares to set national greenhouse gas emissions targets, expected around the end of this month. Environmentalists accuse industry of pushing for targets that… …
THE C.I.A. DOES HOLLYWOOD By Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham Nov. 14 2008- Everyone who watches films knows about Hollywood’s fascination with spies. From Hitchcock’s postwar espionage thrillers, through cold war tales such as Torn Curtain, into the paranoid 1970s when the CIA came to be seen as an agency out of control in films such as Three Days of the Condor, and right to the present, with the Bourne… …
TOTAL FREEDOM WORLD TOUR in London for 3 weeks bringing dj’s, multi media artists, and your beautifull selves together OPENING PARTY SATURDAY 29th NOVEMBERfor the most up date e-flyer for each party check:www.myspace.com/lucidlava infoline: 07933399718 for guest mailing list: lucidlava@gmail.comdj’s and visual artists from around the world are arriving together in London to dance hard into the dawn and into the day (full line ups online) Rooms of industrial to… …
Tarot Cards and the Left by Joshua Sperber Monday, Sep. 01, 2008 at 2:34 PM jsperber4@yahoo.com How prognostications of doom encourage passivity over action There is a near cottage industry of leftists penning engaging, sometimes lurid, always vivid, prognostications of impending doom. Websites like Counterpunch and Common Dreams, for instance, have been prophesizing for several years that a war on Iran is imminent due to the fact that, respectively, a… …
State police summarily executed three peasants in front of a child The Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) issued a press release on denouncing the October 4 police operation in Chincultik that left six peasants dead, 17 wounded, and 36 detained. Of the wounded, ten were beaten and six were shot. Three men were gravely injured: one was transfered to a hospital in Mexico City, and the… …
On this edition of the serial programme “Conversations with History”, UC Berkeley’s Harry Kreisler welcomes social theorist Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, to discuss identity and change in the network society. …
Will the upsurge in activity around climate change and the food crisis repeat the cycle of the movement of movements over the past decade – momentary visibility then dissolution? Harry Halpin and Kay Summer say ‘yes’, unless different models of organising are embraced. The article appeared in the 4th issue of the magazine Turbulence…For further reading: http://turbulence.org.uk/ Network Organization for the 21st Century “Then perhaps we… …
Against All Prisons / Solidarity to All Prisoners Void Art Short Film directed by Sissy Doutsiou [Void Optical Art Laboratory] camera:d.j.Vertigo from Void Network visiting Alcatraz prison U.S.A. music:California Sunshine There are millions of people in the prisons today…And for as long as even one person is still in prison no one will ever be really free…The imprisonment industry will grow, the law will capture day by day every moment… …
This an article about thousands of people trapped in the world of internet digital information, unable to understand the desperate and urgent need for action The article is written by Michael Bugeja for the very interesting magazine The Ecologist (you can subscribe to their mailing list and recieve news and essays!) http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1996 Global Village Idiots Information about information, ideas without place, facts without action… It’s time we got off the… …
For many years now we know that AS LONG PRISONS WILL EXIST, NO ONE WILL BE FREE… All of us,day by day, we understand more and more the great failure of the political and social system of this Empire, the failure of global economy and political representation…In the same way, we face also the barbarism of Prison system of this planet…It is a part of a general failure…and it is… …
artwork : Void Optical Art Laboratory …and then suddenly it was the end of 2008…After all these 19 yearsof working withVoid Network(Theory,Utopia,Empathy,Ephemeral Arts)http://voidnetwork.blogspot.comall these Void Network peoplein Europe, in Amerikas, in the Outer Space…we started realizing that there are existing out there thousands of creative friends, spiritual comrades, political, social and cultural activists, radical theoreticians and crazy thinkers, artists that hate the high-class luxury and space out motherfuckers that send… …
…and then suddenly it was the end of 2008… After all these 19 years of working with Void Network (Theory,Utopia,Empathy,Ephemeral Arts) http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com all these Void people in Europe, in Amerika, in the Outer Space… we started realizing that there are existing out there thousands of creative friends, spiritual comrades, political, social and cultural activists, radical theoreticians and crazy thinkers, artists that hate the high-class luxury and space out motherfuckers that… …
Global Eye [London Void Network collective] manifests this moment, this weeks, this months the arising of a New Spiritual Autonomia in London through squats, huge rave gatherings, space travelling, creative revolutionary friendship, sharing of plans and visions Keep connected… Keep the frequencies clear! Look forward for the next situations… Let’s meet in the Outer Space info: http://www.myspace.com/globaleye http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com email contact: voidinternational@gmail.com …
FESTIVAL GLOBAL POR LA LIBERTAD TOTAL 4 dias por la cultura underground y autonomia social 4 days for the underground cultures and the social autonomia jueves 30 de octubre 2008 18:00hrs Presentacion del libro (Book presentation and dialogue) Corte de Caja-Entrevista al SubMarcos del EZLN Presentan: Laura Castellanos (autora), Ricardo Trabulsi (fotografo), Antonio Fuentes Díaz, Dario Azzellini Lugar (space): La Casa de la Aduana Vieja, 2 Oriente 409 viernes 31… …
VOID NETWORK in part of TOTAL FREEDOM WORLD TOUR participates in Son, Baile y Resistencia Festival D.J. Crystal Zero & D.J. Sissy Stardust they will mix especialy Electro Dub and Space Reggae + milti media Void Art visual projections by Void Optical Art Laboratory Live Concert: Son De Maiz Taller Del Sur Radioson Nectar Cafe in the autonomousspaceAuditorium Che Guevarahttp://www.auditoriocheguevara.orgMexico DF City FRIDAY 17 OCTOMBRE 2008start : 17.00 organized byJovenes… …
VOID NETWORK and NATURAL HIGH SOUND SYSTEM present NEWS FROM NOWHERE the arising of a spiritual autonomia a Journey to the Outer Limits of Psychedelic Trance FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER 2008 starts:10pm till the morning LOFOS STREFI ATHENS greece Be Magical and Always Beautiful …
CHILL OUT GATHERING SUNDAY 28/09/08 STREFIS HILL Athens / Greece Line up: DJ GLOBUS CONTACT [psy ambient] 19:00-21:00 DJ D-FER [dub] 21:00-23:00 DJ RAMAN [void network] presents: “ZERO LEVEL ENVIRONMENTAL SOUND” Kindly supported by DJ NEU [void network, lumino us collective] 23:00-01:00 DJ AIORA [Electric Dreams] 01:00-03:00 hot honey juice+ Chai shop + Fluo Deco please respect the place love-peace-unity …
UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA Sound bites of USA Passing trough from friend to friend, old and new our silent thoughts… The United Slaves of America United Slaves of Advertisments Living each one on their own Private liberty cubes Little bit happyNot much positive Is there such a thing as Liberty Dynasty? Worse president ever …he may feelblood drops over billboards Fun fair over crosses Family’s weekend walk through death Sunbathing… …
It was nice rainy month here, a lot of new contacts, visions and ideas. I never met more happy, cheerful, helpful and hospitable people than the Burkina be.One month is not enough for sure to get know this country and the real hard lifestyle here, not even to get used to it, but I am happy that I could come here at all. We visited project for street children, nursery school in… …
Void Network people travelling at the Pacific Ocean, at the paradise beach of Oaxaca Mazunte and Zipolite…We made a lot of conversations by the seaside and it was really creative….We recorded one ¨Void Network Assembly Panamerican¨ talking about Social Anarchism, Freedom of Consciousness and the creative paradigm of Autonomous Social Centers that soon will published on this blog…We talked also about the preparations of Total Freedom Festivals in Mexico capital… …
We found out that a festival was happenning in the full moon night outside of San Cristobal de la Casas in Mexico / Chiapas. It was a great opportunity for us to enjoy all together a wonderfull party on the mountains and to have a last moment participation to the festival…We shared our space out dub/psychedelic emotional ambient with the Mexican freaks…It was a beatifull night and a great morning… …
During our staying in Chiapas we followed a programme of EZLN for visiting a number of Autonomus self organized villages of zapatistas indigenous people….This was maybe the most important experience of this travelling…Most of imformation we found in Chiapas you can found it in internet…But the experience of the happiness and the welcoming of these people to us you can not find it in internet or in any underground blog,… …
Suddenly in the middle of the rain appeared Marcos, Moises and other EZLN insuractioneries like ghosts in the mist, armed and riding strong horses like coming from the world of shadows… The people gathered and the lecture started…They spoke for about one hour…SCI Marcos made an intoduction mentioning that the International Commitie of Human Rights that visited the areas of Zapatista the last months announced wrongly that the para/military attacks… …
A meeting and representation took place in Garroucha Caracol where Zapatistas women from 4 different autonomous self – organised municipalities of Garrucha Caracol came, as they mentioned “to get organised better so none goverment can stop them”.During their reprsentation they said :“Many women didn´t manage to arrive to the meeting as they didn´t have the money to travel , to take the bus. With law or without law we will… …
We travel from San Christoball into the jungle of Chiapas.We travel from the autonomous university of Zapatistas to the autonomous indigenious communities in Chiapas, to the autonomous Caracol (civil centre) of Garrucha, a place without state control , outside the racism and the dictatorhip of the state autority. We travel to the land of the revolved indigenious people who fight to save their culture, who want to save the civilization… …
We travelled from Mexico city to Chiapas…The Mexico city is full of young anarchists, punks, freaks, Emos, Goths that they wait with passion the Global explosion…After the 6th Declaration of Zapatistas that focus on the enforcement of connection of Zapatistas with the individual participating people, the non-hierarchical social elements, the non-organizations and the affinity groups the anarchists of Mexico are taking part in the struggle of Zapatistas and the “Other… …
For the next 20 days, Void Network people will travel in Chiapas-Mexico together with 200 activists from all Europe. This “National and International Caravan of Observation and Solidarity with the Communities of Zapatistas in Chiapas” ( Caravana Nacional e Internacional de Observación y Solidaridad con las Comunidades Zapatistas en Chiapas) is our small help to the communities of Zapatistas in Chiapas that day after day they face the brutal repression… …
We are so happy to find ourselves again in the Polytechnic University campus of Athens that it seems to be our most favorite place fororganizing our celebrations. The first raves in Greece started here byVoid Network in 1992…and is been a long long wayuntil now…The president of the university triesto keep the campus as a closed castle during the weekendsand negates any chance of autonomous iniciative that comesfrom independent students… …
Electro Free Festival no.92 days for the underground culturestemporary autonomus public zoneFRIDAY 9 MAY 2008 Stage 1[future sound of psychedelic trance] 10.30- 12.30 d.j. Alexander12.30-2.00 Gloster2.00-4.00 d.j. Fan E4.00-6.300 Nikitas/ Leandros6.30-8.30 PrizonStage 2[space ambient electronica] 10.30-12.30 SpiralX,12.30-2.30 Highpno2.30-5.00 Sissy Stardust5.00-end RamanSATURDAY 10 MAY 2008 Stage 1[ electro acid psychedelic trance] 10.30-12.30 Highpno12.30-1.30 Live Concert:Prophetic Sound1.30-3.00 Chris D3.00-4.30 Dr. Sammy4.30-6.00 Iraklis Mindphaser (Natural High)6.00-end d.j. Crystal Zero Stage 2[ techno +… …
The ” 4th LEGALIZE IT PROTESTIVAL AGAINST ALL PROHIBITIONS AND ALL ADDICTIONS” 2&3 May 2008 / Athens Greece during Global Day of Million Marijuana March was a great effort of many different collectives and many cultural activists to bring thousands and thousands people together in a great celebration of self-determination and freedom. More than 6.000 people in the first day and about 15.000 people in the second day attended the… …
Void Network presentsTotal Freedom Global FestivalRote Flora / Hamburg / Germany Void Art visuals by Sissy Stardust(Void Optical Arts Lab.) D.J. Crystal Zero and d.j.Sungeet lost in the Outer Space Total Freedom Global Festival (d.j Dura on stage) DJ Dura + Void Optical Art Laboratory Jensee from Star Sound Orchestra drumming session Mat Mushroom in Space! Funxion Collective + Global Eye showThe 3 daysTOTAL FREEDOM GLOBAL FESTIVALfor the underground culturesthat… …
Gathering of The Tribes 2008/22,23,24 March/FrankfurtVoid Network and Global Eye :Void Art shows / dj sets / Free Tibet demonstartion Chillout Area Dance Culture and Politics Conference Void Optical Art Laboratory and Global Eye Show Gathering of the Tribes 2008 Afternoon for the Children Free Tibet Demonstration It was a great adventure…. Four of us traveled in Frankfurt as participation of Void Network and Global Eye (London Void Network) to… …
JOIN THE GATHERING OF THE TRIBES! – International trance and dance festival – March 22nd – 24th, 2008in Frankfurt am Main, Germanywww.gatheringofthetribes.de 2 Nights & 3 Days, 5 Floors + Outdoor Area with Tipi, Band Stage and Live MusicKeynotes und Workshops, Paneldiscussions, Massage and Sleeping Space, Kids Programm The idea behind the Gathering is on the one side a broad music and party programm(Techno, Elektro to Psychedelic/Progressive Trance, Balkan and… …
VOID NETWORK (Theory, Utopia, Empathy,Ephemeral Arts) presents TOTAL FREEDOM GLOBAL FESTIVAL 3 days of international space-out celebration for the global freedom autonomy, outopia, anarchy and underground cultures GERMANY | HAMBURG ROTE FLORA ACHIDI-JOHN-PLATZ 1 http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/roteflora/ FRIDAY 29 FEBRUARY SATURDAY 1 MARCH SUNDAY 2 MARCH 2008 organized by Void Network (Athens, London, New York) + Global Eye(London), +Celtic Heritage Trust (England), + Crimethinc(U.S.A.) +Funxion(Athens) + Dub Cafe(Hamburg) +ArtCore (Hamburg) and Rote… …
VOID NETWORK (Theory,Utopia,Empathy,Ephemeral Arts) http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com contact,participation: voidinternational@gmail.com Dear friends, From 1990 that we made the first free rave parties and underground festivals until now there are existing commercial organizers and people with political-governmental or financial interests that they try to describe this parties/festivals as “second class”, as problematic and dangerous, as “destruction for the scene or for the universities or for the democratic asylum” and “not real parties”or “not real… …
The crazy before the new!Complexity, critical instability and the end of capitalismby Kay Summer and Harry Halpin “Even in a cosmic or geological timeperspective there’s something uniqueabout our century”Martin Rees2006 Presidential Address,UK National Academy of Sciences Capitalism: a complex system The staunchest believers in capitalismare frequently anti-capitalists.This is not as paradoxical as it seems.Many believe that capitalism is capableof recuperating any form ofresistance or crisis.This makes it invincible, and thereforethe… …
This is a manuscript from a friend that he was in Lyon and Paris during the days of the last social uprising in France, the strikes, the squats in the universities and the insurrection of the outcasts in the suburbs of Paris and other cities. We express here all our solidarity to the French social resistance and to all the people in France that they fight for their lives. As… …
About 150 people came to our Social Center Nosotros in Saturday 15 December 2007 for this multi media poetry night.The night started with a space ambient d.j. set from Crystal Zero and continued with d.j.Kinomatik making live sound improvisation with the 4 poets reading one poem each as an introduction.The live concert of Zen Garden that followed was the first appearance of a new great band that combines space ambient… …
WORD’S ENVIRONMENTSMULTI MEDIA POETRY ACTIONΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝΤΑ ΛΕΞΕΩΝMULTIMEDIA ΔΡΩΜΕΝΟ ΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ LIVE CONCERT DIRECT CONNECTION ZEN GARDEN DJ SETS CRYSTAL ZERODJ KINOMATIK POETRYSISSY DOUTSIOU, IOANNA GAITANAROU, ANASTASIOS SAGRIS, YIANNIS RAOUZAIOS MULTI MEDIAVOID OPTICAL ARTS LABORATORY+NISIDIS SATURDAY 15 DECEMBER 2007NOSOTROS FREE SOCIAL SPACETHEMISTOKLEOUS 66 EXARCHIAATHENS/GREECE STARTS 9.30FREE ENTRANCE Naked / a poem by Sissy Doutsiou The time that extinguishedThe time that vanishedSwelled……….I am swelled…..My veins are ready to explode They will fill the floor… …
it all started 10.30 in the morning…23 November 2007We brought 8000 Watt in the high luxury commercial center of Athens / Kolonaki sq. / the perfect symbol of neoliberal cynicism and bourgouasie apathy. We prepared the sound system and dj Kernecolemode started playing total noise…For sure…It was not possible to consume happily and enjoy shoppingThe owners of the cafeterias appeared first, then came the owners of the shops all of them shouting in the middle of the total noise that “nobody can buy… …
Friday 23rd November 2007 Kolonaki Square / high commercial market Athens/ Greece from 10.30 morning till 9:30 evening Noise Sound installation – performance: Void Network present the sound of interminable pressure, the sound of a city about to collapse. Sound: Voltnoi, Kinomatik, Kernecolmode, Furokawa Poetry / Texts: Sissy Doutsiou, Anastasios Sagris, Yiannis Raouzeos Bρισκόμαστε στην άθλια εποχή των πιο σπουδαίων άθλων…Η ασημαντότητα δομεί σταδιακά τη νέα κυριαρχία.Ύπνωση , συναίνεση ,… …
Void Networkpresents Void Reading Night a multi media tributeto Raoul Vaneigem reading chaptersfromThe book of Pleasuresby Raoul Vaneigem live soundtrack mix:d.j.Sissy Stardust (psychedelic melodic ambient) multi media void art visuals:Void Optical Art Laboratory Thursday 15 November 2007Nosotros Free Social SpaceThemistokleous 66 ExarchiaAthens Greece starts 21.00free entrance From the pleasureswill born the daring and the laugh that doesn’t carefor the commands and the the law,the value, the price, the order and… …
LOST ASTRONAUTS a traveling to electronic space musicelectro dub | space reggae |psychedelic ambient | sci-fi electromixed and compiledbydj crystal zeroandd.j. sissy stardust from Void Network+ void art projections WEDNESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2007 at ASTRON BARTaki St. 3 Psiri Athensstarts 10.00 free entrance You are all invited in thisspace travellers meeting point,a peacefull and reflectinglistening environment,a thoughtful and invitingsoundscape Please forward this messageto all the good people from the space… …
The threat of expulsion in the absence of conformity:This state of fear disables the individual. A mental control that subsequently becomes physically manifest.We believethat societies’ biggest impairment is the belief that any one of us or even all of us are not capable of improving our world for the better. The root of this impairment is solely mental, not physical.As a result, we aim to fight power structureswhile empowering the… …
Experimental Void Art film///directed by Global Eye/London Void Networkwww.myspace.com/globaleyeHumanity is like a spider web.Humanity is an alive organism, full of creativity power capability sophistication and visions All your thoughts travel through space and time to all your future friends, to all your unknown lovers, to all your future mothers and all your previous fathers, you share your dreams with million people you will never meet, you fight a fight that… …