Month February 2003

Smart mobs and antiwar protests

Smart mobs and antiwar protests Smart Mobs is a book and website by Howard Rheingold. It’s about how technology allows fast, distributed organizing with no apparent leaders. Sounds like the peace movement, eh? Rheingold explains the theory: “Smart mobs emerge…

Pssst, the war HAS started

Pssst, the war HAS started “US and Britain pound Iraqi defences in massive escalation of airstrikes. Iraq has been ordered to destroy dozens of missiles which violate UN limits, but the US and Britain are not waiting to see whether…

L.A. alert

L.A. alert When the war starts “officially” (yes, I said when, not if), assemble at the Westwood Federal Building at 5 pm if a weekday or noon if a weekend. That’s the basic plan. However I suspect there will be massive…

Destroying missiles would be to…

Destroying missiles would be to ‘sign death warrant’, says Iraq “An increasingly cornered Iraq complained yesterday it might be signing its own death warrant if it obeyed a United Nations order to destroy dozens of missiles at the moment the…