Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Greenpepper Magazine

"Information" Issue Call for Contributors

GREENPEPPER is an Amsterdam-based environmental and social justice magazine
focusing on direct and autonomist action. To co-incide with the World Summit on the Information Society to be held in
Switzerland in December 2003, the theme of the next issue of the magazine is
INFORMATION.GREENPEPPER is currently looking for contributions for the INFORMATION issue.
Topics to be explored include (but are not limited to) information control and
autonomy, participatory / community / pirate media, wireless and opensource
media tools, disinformation and public relations, regimes of biotechnology,
intellectual property and surveilance and the tactics of resistance against
them. For more ideas on possible contributions, see the draft structure
included below.

Contributions can be written text (800-1800 wds) or other visual/print media
and must be sent to us by 31 October 2003. More importantly, contributions
should be critical, generative of different ways of thinking about these
issues, and relevant to those engaged in political and cultural struggles
around information and social justice.

For more information or to send contributions contact gpinfo

If
you’d like to send us a contribution, please email a brief (50-100w)
description or synopsis to us by 14 October 2003. To find out more about
GREENPEPPER go to
Greenpepper

Draft structure for greenpepper information issue::
ideas for possible
contributions:

1. EMPIRE

-- introductory overview of wsis : neo-liberal trade agenda / countersummit /
communication rights

-- piracy : specific articles/interviews/case studies about information
piracy / reasons for piracy / response by state or regulatory bodies.

-- informational autonomy : what it means / what types of information practices
it includes / how and why this approach to information goes beyond the
discourse of 'communication rights' and ‘civil society' / importance of
informational autonomy as sites of cultural/political struggle.

-- community/micro media resistance : self-organised community experiments in
media practice / specific examples exploring how informational autonomy might
work.

BIOSPHERE

-- biotech and infotech : connections between the parallel development of
biotechnology and information technology / why contesting science and creating
resistant practices in this area is important for information activism.

-- biopiracy and bioinformatics : what are they / international networks of
biotrade / enclosure of the genetic commons / current and future developments
in this field / possibilities for resistance.

-- biotech and intellectual property : international developments in genecode
patenting and intellectual property regimes.

MEDIASCAPE

-- institutional disinformation : case study on recent war on iraq / role of
international intelligence in disinfo / scope for alternative information
channels

-- radio : the importance of the medium / specific pirate / self-organised /
internet radio experiments / methods of circumventing legal regimes / practical
d.i.y information about small scale transmitting

-- public relations and the production of knowledge : how PR works / the ways
activists can identify and expose pR practices in their struggles.

-- structures of participation : specific experiments that challenge and broaden
the scope of participatory media / ways of making different fields (organic,
financial, scientific etc) readable as information by different groups of
people.

-- wireless networks : developments in wireless networking / why wireless is
important / practical 'how to' information for groups on how to set wireless
networks up and use them.

-- opensource tools : free opensource media tools that can be used by different
groups for political practice / appropriation of opensource by infotech
corporations /

DATA CONTROL

-- data bodies : the concept of electronic bodies / importance of data bodies as
a means of altering debates in this area way from the usual liberal discourse
of privacy / relevance of this approach to understand contemporary surveillance
and/or border control systems / control of data as means of controlling
movement of people.

-- overview of s.11 surveillance systems and expansion of state power (new
laws) : role of the U.S government in co-ordinating extreme international
response / specific examples or contributions from groups being profiled and
targeted

-- digital profiling and social sorting : the concept and practice of digital
profiling / specific ways surveillance works by profiling and sorting people
into differing groups of dangerousness / specific examples of how surveillance
reproduces racism in targeting black/arab people and communities.

-- biometrics : a specific analysis of the U.S led worldwide push to introduce
biometric identification systems in airports / role of International Civil
Aviation Organization and other international regulatory bodies / how
biometrics work / who it effects and why / likely developments and consequences
of biometric surveillance.