Italian version
.hacktivism
17.12.02 Television sets liberated: televiewers on strike + Eterea, a meeting of street TVs.
The self-proclaimed "televiewers union" has organized on Friday, December 13th 2002, a National Televiewers' Strike, telling to those who want to adhere to leave their TV sets switched off and go out carrying the remote control with them. In Milan, particularly, there will be meetings on a bus (the number 30) and a party at the Ponte delle Gabelle with discounts for anybody who brings his remote control, with the slogan 'free everybody's free time... for becoming aware of what we don't see when we watch TV". The next goal proposed by the association is the 'Bill of televiewer's rights'. At the same time, at the TPO in Bologna, on December 14th, there will be the Eterea, general meeting of street TVs which, as well as reflecting on the mess that the italian public television has become, encourages to take the responsibility of disobedience by joining the many micro-stations which have already begun transmitting, from Trieste to the one of Termini Imerese, confiscated by the police some days ago, to the first one, Orfeotv in Bologna, which has brought together around the Telestreet project enthusiastic media-activists and technicians who have shared their knowledge for building their own communication infrastructures.