as patrick lichty writes in "Hello, Katrina! So Much for New Media
Art (Questioning the Grid)" his current editorial in intelligent agent:

"The situation highlights the delicacy of the technological
structures on which "digitally oriented" people, including new media
artists, depend."

socially constructed disasters are underway that are also of critical
importance to New Media Artists as they threaten the same systems of
development, access + distribution of New Media Art that lichty
discusses in relation to Katrina.

the .US the Senate is in hearings for the COPE Act tomorrow aka
2006.06.13

IF you are in .US ++ you are committed to free + open access to
content online as well as public access to the networks (of the
internet + cable television) themselves THEN you should contact your
Senate rep's, urge them to vote AGAINST the COPE Act of 2006 (HR5252)
+ S.2686 ++ publicly say NO TO COPE. PROTECT NET NEUTRALITY AND SAVE
PEG COMMUNITY MEDIA NOW:

http://saveaccess.org/takeaction

for more nfo on Net Neutrality and PEG Community Media chex:

http://www.savetheinternet.com

++

http://saveaccess.org

as Amy Goodman stated on FRI 2006.06.09 on Democracy Now! the COPE
Act of 2006 (HR5252) + S.2686 may very well be deals between the
major .US based telecoms + the current .US gov, i.e. the
Administration, the NSA, etc…:

"AMY GOODMAN: Do you think this is payoff to the telecoms for
cooperating with the government and the N.S.A., and handing over the
phone logs of tens of millions of Americans?

ANTHONY RIDDLE: I don't want to sound cynical, but I think that's
absolutely what happened. I think, you know, the government goes and
they say, you know, we've got this massive legislation that's really
important to you, this is what you really want, you wrote it, we can
pass it, this is what we need of you. You bring up a really good
point, because what we're talking about is handing over the complete
communication system to people who have no regard for your privacy,
who will hand stuff over without warrant or anything. I think people
really need to be up in arms about this."

data.src:

title: House Passes Controversial COPE Telecom Bill, Rejects
Amendment to Protect Net Neutrality
dvr: Democracy Now! (Amy Goodman + Anthony Riddle)
date: 2006.06.09
uri: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid/06/09/1427218

but even so, these are critical issues for those of us, artists from
whom are work is so deeply involved in + inflected by these systems.

contact nfo for your Senators can be found here:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

calling as well as emailing is prolly for the best but whichever
forms of contact you choose do it now.

// jonCates
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