[Seattle-editorial] Re: [Imc-legal] I'm going to leave this list

[pinna]

  anarch3m wrote:
> Dear Pinna.
> 
> thanks for this note upon your departure.  Without your words, I would not know Diebold was of such import outside the united states, its citizens abroad and its military .  
> 
> Seattle IMC has a special interest.  A member is on leave working with a campaign (secretary of state)  and Diebold is the reason the man is running.  Bev Harris lives in a suburb here....
> 
> So I am writing you to get information about Italy and Diebold.  Perhaps a brief line and some citations would help us present a bigger picture of whats at stake .
> 
> That is my hope and humble request.
> 
> Walt
> a3m
> Seattle, Cascadia

Hi, Walt.
happy to read your message :)

Maybe, people at Italy IMC should have given more feedback to US IMCs 
that have been involved in the Diebold issue. I'm sorry this has not 
happened. I think it has been mostly because of the "particular" topic - 
not so many people are interesting in copyright questions, nor in 
e-voting machines. However, let's go on :)

Between 10 and 15 october 2003, Italy IMC edited/removed an article 
about Diebold on its newswire. Elsewhere, the whole server hosting the 
article could have been turned off, because of the legal claims sent to 
Rackspace ISP by Diebold. This is the URL of the article (it is still 
edited, but we're going to restore it):
   http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/398377.php
(I'm not 100% sure that our server would have been shut down. It is 
located in Europe, but the business is US-based (Texas)). However, we 
decided not to put other projects under risk, and we edited the article.

In the next weeks, a feature about the Diebold issue -and about related 
civil disobedience campaign in the US- has been written, published and 
updated on Italy IMC website. you can see it here (sorry, only italian 
language - the title could be "E-vote empire aims Indymedia. In vain"):
   http://italy.indymedia.org/features/ctrl_alt/#1029

I'm also involved in copydown.inventati.org project, an autonomous 
italian website about no-copyright, copylefted art, free file-sharing 
and censorship. News about Diebold have been published and regularly 
updated on its homepage (look at the center column) and on this page:
   http://copydown.inventati.org/news/2003/10/179.php

Other media also covered this issue; in the Indymedia feature you will 
find some links: "Il Manifesto" is a national communist newspaper; 
"punto-informatico.it" is one of the most interesting and independent 
tech-related news website; "quintostato.it" is another interesting 
italian information website about technology society.


Please write me again and -if you need it- tell me what topics
should I explain you more deeply.


solid,
pinna