Though something I do want to mention is NewQ - the queerish space run in Newtown by the Resurgence Collective.
Check it out at http://newq.org (site in progress!)
NewQ (at 22 Enmore Road) is also the place where The Icarus Project (sydney) is meeting. Yay!
At least it isn’t always for me… or rather, sometimes the political analysis of the personal isn’t always fast and stimulating.
So, if you’re into what I’m doing - look up http://annaaniston.wordpress.com
If not, I’ll be back at anarcha adventures soon enough.
Love
Anna
Amnesty International has this project going on called "Irrepressible". The idea is that the banner will show a snippet of text that is banned somewhere in the world.
http://irrepressible.info
I saw it http://www.frob.nl/ - where the text was in arabic (which I can’t read). What I could read was the english tag "Someone doesn’t want people to read this". The idea is that if text is banned on the internet, some more privileged person can republish that text and the censorship will be undermined, and hence (presumably) halted.
Um, no.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if that text exists on the internet or not. What censorship is about is preventing people with a stake in that information or analysis from accessing the information in a timely manner. So who gives a fuck if I can see some arabic text on a blog? Does the Chinese Government care whether I read that one of their citizens is talking about sex? (Probably, but then, they’re not knocking on my door).
This campaign is a bit silly coz it does nothing to help the people affected by censorship. It appeals to privileged people with hazy ideals of right versus might.
