Radical media, politics and culture.

Labour, cinema, P2P

---->> This is the appeal posted in my p2p community, both to solicit materials and generate interest in Mayday

Dear all,

May 1st is nearly upon us. Out of deference for what I'm sure is a plurality of political views present, I will spare you my rant, but not my petitition. The celebration dates from May 3rd 1886, when police attacked marchers for the 40 hour week killing 4. The following day an anarchist demonstration took place, at the end of which a policeman was killed by a bomb thrown at their lines. Eight people were subsequently arrested with no evidence; four were executed and one committed suicide. Irrespective of one's views on social organization this is an important date, to celebrate or loathe.

This year the week of April 24-30th shall also be a boycott called by p2p unite against the media industry. Not a penny from our pocket should pass to the music and cinema industry parasites during these days.

April 26th is International Intellectual Property Day sponsored by the World Intellectual Propertry Organization, a figurehead and rallying poiint historically for all those opposed to the free circulation of culture and knowledge; the monopolists, the censors, the charlatans and their enforcers.

My belief is that the fight for the free circulation of digital goods is part of the struggle for a new wave of rights: to create community (sharing), to create meaning (editing), to generate enlightenment (revealing and unmasking) and to free materials that those who work in the field of culture (film, music, text, software, games) can use to earn a living (think GPL, creative commons commercial sharealike) so as to to free our creativity from the yoke of the property owners.....

For all these reasons, I propose that the week before of May 1st we make an effort to post films and materials on the theme of the liberation of labour and creativity. I am preparing some rips myself and would ask other people to express their interest and suggested titles.

My first rip will be:

Live Nude Girls Unite (2000) which is a movie about unionization in the sex industry. http://www.livenudegirlsunite.com/

loooking forward to hearing from you,

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Mayday, the real labour day

http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/mayday.html

European Mayday initiative http://www.euromayday.org/

P2P Boycott of Media Industry April 24-30 http://www.p2punite.net/

Autonomedia http://slash.autonomedia.org