And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This message is forwarded to you as a service of Zapatistas Online. Comments and volunteers are welcome. Write [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:59:33 -0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Marilyn Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Chiapas95 News Lists NEWSLETTER OF ZAPATISTAS ONLINE Table of Contents: The Mail Comes Through -- How the Chiapas95 Lists Came Back Up Who We Are -- Meet the Volunteers Look Like Fun? -- Join Us. What Does It Mean? -- Democratic News and its Implications ~~~ //.\\ ~~~ //.\\ ~~~ //.\\ ~~~ //.\\ ~~~ //.\\ ~~~ //.\\ ~~~ The Mail Comes Through -- How the Chiapas95 lists came back up Remember August 15 when the Chiapas95 lists ended? Remember one of the last messages, calling for volunteers to meet on a new list, and together we'd try to construct a mechanism so that the huge task of editing and producing the news is shared amongst more people, and not constrained by geography? It worked. The members of the new group, who eventually named ourselves "Zapatistas Online", now edit the news from Chiapas that you read each day. While before, Harry Cleaver and Tamara Ford shared the huge task on one computer in Texas, now there are four editor- volunteers, two technical support people, and ten computers sharing the various tasks involved in delivering your news. Here's how it works. The incoming email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and all news articles come into the system on that University of Texas machine. In Texas, incoming mail goes through a series of filters, fixing up the accent marks and deleting html code and stripping some headers. It is automatically sorted by language and then sent on to four "language stations" on various machines, donated by various ISP's. We have an English, Espanol, Italiano and Babel Stations; Babel gets all the submissions that aren't in the other languages. Our volunteer editors visit the stations by telnetting from their own machines. There they do the nitty, gritty work of deleting duplicates and irrelevant items, editing a bit, and forwarding the mail onto the Chiapas95 lists. We meet in a series of email lists run from "Rosa", the deliberate.com machine. These lists are equipped with "eVote", which allows us to take a vote when necessary, but mostly we make our decisions by consensus. .\\[[*]]//.\\[[*]]//.\\[[*]]//.\\[[*]]//.\\[[*]]//.\\[[*]]//.\\[[*]]//. Who We Are -- Meet the Volunteers Our volunteers come to the project from different perspectives and for different personal reasons, none of which we necessarily hold in common. Our only commonality is our desire to work together democratically to keep the news flowing out of Chiapas. Harry Cleaver is a Professor of Economics, concentrating on Marxist Economics, at the University of Texas at Austin. Harry is the originator of the Chiapas95 lists and edits the mail at all the language stations. For more about Harry's involvement with teaching and Marxist Economics, see http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/index2.html Pat Dreger is a graduate student, ABD Latin American Studies at the University of Akron. Her dissertation deals with church-indigenous relations in Chiapas, and liberation theology. She has traveled extensively in Mexico, and has spent time in Chiapas three times in as many years. She lives near Cleveland, Ohio. Pat puts in long hours editing on both English and Espanol Stations. Mario Galvan works with the Zapatista Coalition and Peace Action in Sacramento, California. The Zapatista Coalition is affiliated with the National Commission for Democracy in Mexico (NCDM). He is Chicano, and has traveled to Mexico and Chiapas many times. He works as a substitute high school teacher and free-lance graphic artist. Frank Shulse is our newest volunteer and is training to work on the Espanol Station. Frank teaches Spanish at a small college (Westminster) in Fulton, MO. He too has been to Chiapas a number of times over the years and identifies greatly (perhaps too much) with the plight of the marginalized. Welcome Frank! Kino comes from a background in communications and Audio Engineering. He spent last summer in Chiapas but is now living in Dublin, Ireland. Kino contributes to the technical side of the project as well as working on the English and Espanol Stations. John Jacq is an engineer in Melbourne, Australia and is fascinated by engineering, mathematical, and technical goodies and comes to the project through his involvement with eVote. John invented the software used for language-sorting and accent-stripping. He helps with training, learning and thinking. To learn about John's involvement with engineering, math puzzles, astronomy, celestial navigation and more, see http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jjjacq Marilyn Davis is a part-time waitress and teaches computer programming at UCSC Extension in San Jose, California. Marilyn invented the overall scheme at ZO and pieced together the network. She is the author of the eVoting software. For Marilyn, this is spiritual work, done in service to Kopilli Ketzalli, the Sacred Feathercrown of Montezuma. To learn more about the powerful Kopilli Ketzalli, and to sign a petition .to have it returned from Austria where it has languished since the time of Cortez, see http://www.deliberate.com/aztec .||o||.||o||.||o||.||o||.||o||.||o||.||o||.||o||.||o||.||o||.||o||. What Does It Mean? -- Democratic News and its Implications by Marilyn Davis "After so much silence, these indigenous speak of a boat, a Noah's ark, a navigable tower of Babel, an irreverent and absurd challenge." "Despue's de tanto silencio, estos indigenas hablan una nave, un arca de Noe, una torre de Babel navegante, un desafio absurdo e irreverente." . "Mensajes Del Me'xico" por por Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Julio de 1998 In response, we online Zapatistas and sympathizers, in our snug worlds in all corners of the globe, pull and push the news. We read it, we spread it. The Chiapas-consciousness we raise within ourselves and force onto the established news, brings disruption, and will bring solution. We're on to something big. Even Rand reports it to the US Army. At Zapatistas Online, we concentrate on the concept of "collaborative news", developing an electronically-assisted-collective-consciousness capable of bringing the old corrupted systems to their knees, and capable of carrying on even after the world comes to democracy, justice, and peace. We see a future with millions of volunteers, reading and rating the news. This human activity, with computer assistance, will produce democratically-edited news on all topics. In the future, we will no longer be held captive by a news industry that serves as a power lever for corruption. We will, as humans, redefine ourselves and our interests. Here at Zapatistas Online, we're making a small start. Wouldn't you like to be a part of it? If so, write to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Zapatista Online Editors -- To unsubscribe from this list send a message containing the words unsubscribe chiapas95 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher://eco.utexas.edu. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
