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FURTHER INFO ON NANOTECH ACTION IN LEEDS

anne bonney | 15.11.2004 14:27 | Bio-technology | Technology | World

update and links re: anti-nanotechnology protest in leeds

INFO ON PROTEST:
On Friday 12th there was an action against Nanotechnology/Convergence Technologies at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. A report was posted but was incomplete.
The protest took 3 main parts. Firstly, an information gathering exercise to gain further details of who is involved in what, for future actions. Secondly, the hall was visited and made extremely unplesant by a well-known substance for stinking out conferences: comfrey in water left to rot for a couple of months, and fish bait. visitors to the hall an hr after said people were holding their noses and not staying, and the smell was hideous. Leaflets were also given out. The third aspect was the seizing of the tannoy and a communique being read out. This coincided with a talk on nanotech which drowned it out, and was heard in every room through the museum. Leaflets were also scattered down. Two of these people were held by security until the police arrived, took down the name and address and date of birth that the two claimed were theirs, quick check to make sure there was no warrant on the names given, and then released.
The communique read:
Nanotechnology is the newest weapon against diversity, rebellion, difference, autonomy and freedom. The US military is, of course, the biggest investor as it tries to ensure total domination of all life on the planet. The British government has also invested £90 million in nanotechnology and most industries and universities* are developing interests in the field.

Genetic engineering was recognised as having massive social and ecological implications and this ensured worldwide resistance against it. Nanotechnology, which has the ability to transform all matter, has far more dramatic effects and needs drastic action to confront this new assault on diversity of life.

Nanotech, and its links to biotechnological, informational and cognitive sciences, provides the state with yet more tools with which to control all dissent and iron out all life into a homogeneous, manipulable mass. Be it advances in surveillance technologies, the ability to disable neural transmitters and break apart DNA strands by remote control, artificially create ‘workaholism’ in labourers, or ‘stamp out’ physical and mental difference, nanotechnology puts mind control, body control, social control and control of the natural world more firmly in the hands of the state, the corporations and the ruling elite.

Just as biotechnology was sold to us as a green technology that would feed the world, so nanotech is being heralded. Both instinct and reason tell us to take action against these new technologies before we lose our last liberties to them.

* These are easy targets

FURTHER INFO ON NANOTECH:
for those who, like many of us, have buried our heads in the sand about this new technology, but have decided it is time to learn and to act, the following information should assist:

 http://www.etcgroup.org - campaigning but non-radical group with info on nanotech
 http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC_frontmatter.pdf - info from the "other side"
 http://www.leedsef.org.uk - earth first! website with an 8 page nanotech article somewhere on it!

Anne Bonney.

anne bonney

Comments

Display the following 11 comments

  1. Education is supposed to eradicate ignorance. It has obviously failed. — sceptic
  2. we can't ignore nanotech — nano geek!
  3. You know, — sceptic
  4. skeptic — reader
  5. Aggressive and defensive? — sceptic
  6. microelectronics... — questiontechnology
  7. Trying to stop this is masturbation — evil techno droid
  8. Nano Response — Nano Scientist
  9. Destructive efforts are futile. — Michael Wilson
  10. Open Source nanotech — anarchonano
  11. Top result for nanotech leeds — potential leeds nanotech PhD student

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