Join the SwarmTheMinuteMen.com and Electronic Disturbance Theater

Virtual Sit-In Against Anti-Immigrant Websites, from Tuesday July 20th

-Thursday, July 22nd

To join, click here: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

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This, the second action coordinated by SWARM [1], is an attempt to move

beyond the minutemen [2] - as one group of people working against

migrants and migratory movement – to a systemic logic. This logic that

pervades American society [3] is canonized in Academia and

institutionalized in the US border Patrol. [4]

It is logic that ‘others’ migrant people and people of color in general.

[5] It marginalizes migrants; dehumanizes migrants; Subjects them to

unnecessary violence and persecution. [6]

The recent and broad-based recognition and legitimization [7] of these

anti-immigrant groups is rooted in a much larger ideology that underpins

white American identity. [8] It is an ideology that tells its history

as if it is not a history of migrants, immigrants, and indigenous

peoples some of whom suffered genocide in the face of European

migration. [9] This attention has also re-invigorated even more radical

and racist organizations [10] Though some may portray the Minutemen as

simply “backward hicks’ – they share the interests and goals of

academics like Samuel Huntington [11] , the policy makers behind NAFTA

[12] and the US patriot act [13], and US nationalists. [14] The rhetoric

of such policies has paved the way for Nazis and White Supremacist to

rise again. This Racism is systemic within the US. It goes from the

mouth of a Ivy League academic to the gun of a civilian border agent. [15]

This virtual sit-in is an attempt to disrupt the modes of communication

and information dissemination that facilitate racist organizing. Over

the next few weeks, the California Minutemen Border Patrol Auxiliary

camp out in Campo, recommencing their summer long campaign of violence

against Migrant people [16]. For this we will not stand – but SIT – IN –

In conjunction with protests at the Minutemen camps [17], on their

virtual domain – in the names of those who have died and will die as a

result of their actions. The software we are using request files from

the servers of the targeted websites that are not found – files like

Justice, Freedom, and the names of those who have died crossing the

border [18]. In effect you will see the error message – “files not

found.” The sit-in will interfere with and slowdown the servers of

these various groups and individuals – much like a physical sit-in slows

down the movement of people in buildings or on streets. [19] More than

78,000 people sat with us in our first action against the Minutemen. As

our target grows – so will the resistance.

We have charted the movements of migrants, those who resist them [20]

and those who support them [21] – across the map of North America. We

have only included the lines chosen by nation-states solely as a

reference - not because we feel they divide us or define us. The paths

charted are only but a few of the infinite journeys traveled by the

migrating world.

To join, go to: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

For more information, go to: http://swarmtheminutemen.com

Thank you for participating.

1. South West Action to Resist the Minutemen http://swarmtheminutemen.com/

2. Minuteman Project

http://www.minutemanhq.com/project/

3. Zogby poll: Americans fed up on illegal aliens Majority against Bush

plan for workers, 81% think local police should help feds

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44154

4. The Persistence of White Privilege and Institutional Racism in US

Policy - http://www.arc.org/downloads/trji010417.pdf - COMPILED BY

TRANSNATIONAL RACIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE

What is institutional Racism? -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism

5. Definitions of Othering -

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/rww03/othering.htm

6. Photos of boder vigilantes humilating migrant people by Todd Bigelow

http://www.toddbigelowphotography.com/portfolio/photo_essays/vigilantes/vigilantes.html

7. San Diego Union Tribune -

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/editorial2/20050512-9999-lz1ed12bottom.html

CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/16/broken.borders/

8. "Hate or Heroism: Vigilantes on the Arizona-Mexico Border" – a

report by the Border Action Network

http://www.borderaction.org/PDFs/BAN-Vigilante%20Report.pdf

9. History of World Migration - History as Migration -

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Migration-(human)

10.'Aryan Resistance' http://resist.com/

11. Samuel Huntintion -

http://www.gov.harvard.edu/Faculty/Bios/Huntington.htm

Hispanic Challenge

http://discuss.agonist.org/yabbse/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=17351

12. "Neoliberalism, NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and

Migration: Their Impact on Labor Markets in North America"

http://www.alast.org/PDF/Marshall1/MT-VelascoArregui.PDF

13. ACLU reports on The USA PATRIOT Act -

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12126&c=207

14. For example, see the The Project for the New American Century -

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

15. "Nazis, racists join Minuteman Project" -

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=13

The Minutemen and the Media: Mainstream news overlooks vigilante group's

ties to white supremacists -

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=19008

16. For an example of the kind of violence vigilantes in the San Diego

region engage in, see:

http://www.toddbigelowphotography.com/portfolio/photo_essays/vigilantes/search_guard.html

17. "Stop the Border Vigilantes in Campo, July 15-19th"

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/109826.shtml

18. http://stopgatekeeper.org/English/index.html

"3,000 Migrants dead, does anyone care?" from the stopgatekeeper.org

website. The current number is estimated at over 3,500 migrant people

who have died.

19. "Just as the Vietnam War and the Gulf War brought thousands into the

streets to disrupt the flow of normal business and governance - acting

upon the physical infrastructure - future interventionist wars will be

protested by the clogging or actual rupture of fiber optic cables and

ISDN lines - acting upon the electronic and communications infrastructure."

http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/oecd.html

20. Websites and organizations targeted in this action are:

The Arizona Minutemen - http://www.minutemanhq.com/

California Minutemen - http://borderwatch.us/

Save Our State - http://www.saveourstate.org/

Border Patrol -

http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/border_security/border_patrol/

NAFTA - http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org

CAFTA - http://www.ustr.gov/

Samuel Huntington, Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies -

http://www.gov.harvard.edu/Faculty/Bios/Huntington.htm

21. Websites and organizations working for human rights for migrant

people which are highlighted in this action are:

Delete The Border - http://deleteTheBorder.org

Ejercito Zapatista Liberacíon Nacíonal - http://www.ezln.org

No One Is Illegal - http://solidarityAcross.org

Baldwin Park Demonstrations - coverage at http://la.indymedia.org/