Dyne:bolic 2.1 - code name DHORUBA - has been released on Metamute's Public Library Bittorrent server http://pl.metamute.org. You can visit the Public Library, download the file and run it live on your computer's CD drive without effecting your existing OS. Dyne:bolic contains all the tools you need for creating and distributing, video, audio and multimedia works. 

This is a curious piece of political positioning - a radical curator, Chris Gilbert, has resigned from Berkeley Art Museum after the museum's directors demanded that he neutralise his statement of revolutionary solidarity that accompanied a show on Venezuelan media 'along the path of the Bolivarian Process'. Gilbert delivers a stinging admonishment to institutional hypocrisy (the duplicity of its brief to serve the 'people' while servicing its bourgeois paymasters etc.) - and it makes for a rollicking read.

The Survival Scrapbooks are a series of six books published in the early-1970s covering different aspects of autonomous living from a practical perspective.  Several authors contributed to the series, often with additional input from others.  The titles in the series, and their authors, were:

volume 1: Shelter, 1972 - Stefan Szczelkun
contents: different forms of wild, mobile, or simple-to-build accommodation including caves, hand-made tents, wooden huts, and vans.

Whatever happened to tactical media? David Garcia, one of the genre’s early formulators, takes C6’s recent publication DIY Survival as an opportunity to reflect on the general state of cultural politics after its net propelled reinvention in the `90s. Concerned with the commercial cannibalisation of tactical media, he identifies a need to connect its ‘hit and run’ ephemerality with more permanent stuctures of resistance

The Live8 concert may have been a spectacular recuperation of the anti-globalisation movement, but anti-capitalist protestors outside the G8 summit in Gleneagles were still trying to get the revolution televised on their own terms.

In April 2004, the seventh Italian Hackmeeting (AKA HackIt) took place in Milano. Here, members of the Milan Hacklab reload and activist information networks ECN and Autistici give an overview of the changing experiences of Hacklabs and the Italian hacktivist scene