London Technology Newswire Archive

19-08-2003 10:33

Flashmobs update - daily mail, cops, shutdowns, muggings and reading festival

Quick roundup of some of the more interesting flashmob news:

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19-08-2003 00:23

Help Big Oil! Join Anti-Smoking Crusade.

By ignoring Big Oil's tobacco pesticide residues in typical cigarettes...the plant (tobacco) is allowed to take the fall. Other corporate criminals benefit as well. AND...Big Cig, the ostensible target, gets off easy. If you like cannabis prohibition, you'll love the tobacco version.

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18-08-2003 17:57

Fighting the EU IP Enforcement Directive / Campaign for an Open Digital Enviro

The proposed EU Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive is another nasty bit of big brother legislation. It will forbid Europeans from removing or deactivating Radio Frequency (RFID) tags embedded in clothing and other consumer devices, as well as giving intellectual property holders (ie CORPORATIONS) broad subpoena powers to obtain PERSONAL INFORMATION about ANY EU CITIZEN allegedly connected to an infringement of ip... Read more >>

14-08-2003 01:33

Support Direct Action against GM

www.greengloves.org

After five years of massive public opposition to GM and a nationwide public debate, Tony Blair will decide in October whether to allow commercial growing of GM crops.

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13-08-2003 00:38

Evening Std runs Story on Tesco Gillette RFID Chip Trial + Campaign

Evening Std Covers RFID chip story / anti-campaign:

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/6181085?source=Evening%20Standard Read more >>

12-08-2003 17:48

CASPIAN LAUNCHES WORLDWIDE GILLETTE BOYCOTT

CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)
is calling for a worldwide boycott of Gillette products since the
company failed to renounce a Gillette Mach3 "smart shelf" spy system.

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12-08-2003 15:48

News from Statewatch - 12th August 03

Statewatch News online, 12 August 2003
see:

http://www.statewatch.org/news Read more >>

09-08-2003 21:25

TESCO tags Cambridge shoppers

A group of concerned residents informed shoppers at TESCO in Cambridge today that they may be part of an experiment. When customers pick a pack of Gillette razor blades off the shelf, they will be tagged with an electronic device. Not only that. The hidden chip communicates with a camera system that stores your picture in a database! Read more >>

09-08-2003 08:20

FlashMob Hack - subversion and clampdown ahoy?

Hack the FlashMob... TACTICS + ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIAL ENGINEERING

http://www.why-war.com/features/read.php?id=4

Are we approaching a moment in time when sending out a last-minute flash mob announcement will trigger a mob consisting of more cameras and reporters than anything else? If so, that could be a lot of fun in itself. Take advantage of this, people; it won't last...

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01-08-2003 12:48

British Medical Journal no longer free

The BMJ is no longer free electronically. Read more >>

29-07-2003 16:39

Is anyone doing any actions against RFID chips? (cambridge/sandhurst/notts etc)

After reading the shocking articles about RFID radio tags in schnews and the guardian i wonder if anyone is doing anything about it? Read more >>

28-07-2003 12:06

DSEi: Campaign Against Arms Trade - Press Release

CAAT PRESS REALEASE: FAO Newsdesks - Tuesday 24th July 2003
PROTESTS CHALLENGE LONDON ARMS BAZAAR
Thousands of protesters are gearing up to challenge the UK's biggest ever arms exhibition

NB Events list not complete eg - 9th = also NVDA blockades 10th = also Reclaim The Streets
Expect more events to be added. Read more >>

24-07-2003 10:54

Czech Gov Reports on 'Extremist IMC'

The Czech governemnt has included Indymedia in a list of 'extremist organisations' reviewed in a report covering last years events (2002), specificaly in relation to the NATO summit protests in Prague, November 2002.

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18-07-2003 16:39

Wake Up! Wake Up! It's Yer Chips With Everything

Repost from Schnews Issue 415
Friday 18th July 2003.

WAKE UP! WAKE UP! IT'S YER CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING

SchNEWS Read more >>

18-07-2003 10:05

World Summit on Information Society: Draft Declaration Discussions

Official latest from yesterdays discussion in Paris. Expect Civil Society evaluation soon.

More info on WSIS @ Read more >>

17-07-2003 15:28

Unzipping the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, Dec)

Metamute article : Dissembly Language :M26 :: 4.07.03
Unzipping the World Summit on the Information Society
by Alan Toner

http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=26&NrSection=10&NrArticle=873&ST_max=0

More info on WSIS @

http://www.crisinfo.org -

http://www.prepcom.net/wsis -

http://www.worldsummit2003.org Read more >>

17-07-2003 12:22

Is there uranium still missing in the U.K? or is this a non story?

hello from Portland, Oregon

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09-07-2003 18:42

International Call to Action: Stop Europe's biggest Arms Fair!

SHUT DOWN DSEi! LONDON, UK – 6TH – 12TH SEPTEMBER 2003
One of the world’s biggest ever trade fairs for guns, bombs, military planes, small arms, mines and tanks is taking place in London from 9th – 12th September 2003.

*** Also called as a European focus of disent against the WTO *** Read more >>

22-06-2003 16:22

Undercurrents release 'Globalisation and the Media' documentary on CDROM

Unique distribution for documentary Read more >>

31-07-2002 15:25

Convoy - Messages to DEFRA

A nine minute video (in realvideo) of an anti-GM convoy and demonstration at DEFRA. Bags of GM taken from 17 trial sites around the country were dumped on DEFRA's doorstep to make clear that the public do not want GM crops. Read more >>