17th NOVEMBER HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENT
Prague, 17th November !1989 the Velvet revolution started as iron curtain of the cold war collapsed. The concrete walls and iron fences on the border were taken down, but many invisible walls and fences remained. Even new invisible walls were built and some we can call silicon curtains of the extractive affective platform economies. node9, without a name yet, was brought online three years after Prague S26, IMF and globalisation protests took place in 2000. Reported by Radio Jeleni with EngageTV and UnderCurrents. Large newspaper online portals were in the early stages and internet connection was mostly (if any) carried by 56 Kbit modem, permanent connection was available in academia. Independent Media Centers were appearing as a network for local reporting. Even though node9 did not originate in direct connection to those events, it originated from these ideas of independent media between political maps and movements, oriented in the art and networked art scene, which was taking shape in 2000 by large event of the festival Entermultimediale. New media was thought as enabling the civil society and democratic processes and it was still largely unknown how the political technology also quietly starts to build the invisible silicon curtains between us on many fronts. node9 grows from the tradition of cultivating media literacy as one of the disruption elements of the walls and curtains of undemocratic jails of censorship and propaganda. Military expenses alone would feed all the people of the world and we need technology be used for making people communicate, understand each other, collaborate and share resources sustainably.
https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0009/msg00249.html Revolting in Prague- IMF protests 2000
Riots, pink fairies, corporate men and money. An insight into the IMF/World Bank summit which activists shut down in 2000. 50,000 people traveled to Prague to stop the money men destroying our planet. http://www.undercurrents.org
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