{"article":{"id":14543,"heading":"@rt-mark WEF strategies and anual report","author":"@rt-mark","created":"2002-01-31 00:08:41","modified":"2005-08-15 00:53:14","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:53:14","article":"
Jan. 28, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Release and Annual Report
NEW PROJECTS COMBAT CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT
In response to The World Economic Forum Meeting at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel in New York City (January 30 to February 3), RTMark investors
have sponsored several new projects to fight the corporate takeover of
public space and expression:
* The \"reaming\" of the WEF's website with automatic parody software
* \"Ready-to-revolt\" smart clothing
* Tear-gas tennis
* A virtual sit-in of the WEF's website
* Avoidance\/destruction of surveillance cameras
* Street-writing bicycles
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The World Economic Forum Gets Reamed
The Yes Men have released version 2.0 of Reamweaver, their automatic
website-parody software, and have set it loose on the World Economic
Forum website. \"We think http:\/\/world-economic-forum.com is more
forthright about the WEF's goals than their real site is,\" said Andy
Bichlbaum of the Yes Men.
The free, open-source software (http:\/\/reamweaver.com) was first
released when the World Trade Organization tried to shut down Gatt.org
in November. \"The WTO tried to capitalize on the post-9\/11 climate by
attacking any kind of dissent,\" said Cue P. Doll, one of the
Reamweaver coders. \"By automating the parody process, this software
scales web dissent from a small group to a global network, ensuring
the WTO's kind of tactics will never work.\"
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The World Economic Forum Gets Sat Upon
The Electronic Disturbance Theater is releasing a virtual sit-in
(denial-of-service) tool specially tailored for the World Economic
Forum website. Users are invited to join the cyber-protest at
http:\/\/www.thing.net\/~rdom\/ecd\/fools.html.
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New Ways to Avoid or Destroy Video Surveillance
Two new projects help citizens regain some of their privacy by helping
them to avoid surveillance or destroy it. The Institute for Applied
Autonomy's iSee (http:\/\/www.appliedautonomy.com\/isee\/) is an
interactive map that shows walkers the path of least surveillance
between any two points in Manhattan. And for those who want to take
the direct route, an anonymous group explains how to disable
inappropriate cameras (http:\/\/rtmark.com\/cctv\/).
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Bikes Paint Messages As You Ride (Project BIKE)
An anonymous investment of $500 has allowed the distribution of a
tool that turns any bicycle into a street-writing device. Bradley
Pitts (mailto:bmpitts9@hotmail.com), a spokesperson for the group
that created the tool, calls it \"an efficient way to get a message
out on the street... over and over and over again.\"
(http:\/\/architecture.mit.edu\/~atmarcus\/bikewriter\/writer.html)
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