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Indymedia Switzerland--OFFLINE |
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by ML
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17 Feb 2002
Modified: 18 Feb 2002 |
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This looks bad. Swiss IMC has apparently been shut down. |
My German is rusty, but perhaps someone else can offer a translation. All you see now when you go to
http://switzerland.indymedia.org/
is a page that says "Offline" with and explanation in German.
A little more info: |
See also:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=136575&group=webcast
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More Interesting Info |
by ML
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Current rating: 0
18 Feb 2002
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There's more info in the comments to the post at this link:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=136970&group=webcast |
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Machination.org has more complete info |
by Paul R.
paul (nospam) mediageek.org (unverified) |
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18 Feb 2002
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From http://www.machination.org :
Swiss IMC Forced To Give Into AKDH's Legal Pressures, Shuts Down Website.
~0200 GMT 18.02.2002
The Swiss IMC webpage was shut down today, probably by its own team consensus, after legal pressures from the AKDH became too much. AKDH is a Holocaust survivors/relatives group, aligned with so-called "conservative" or "right wing" politics of the Israeli state.
While there was no definite legal mandate to shut the site down, given cultural norms and the unique intensity of the situation, the Swiss team chose to put up a splash page and kill the site while trying rational discussion with the complainants offline. The "Children of the Holocaust" did file suit under Swiss law.
A cartoon, one from many in a series called "We Are All Palestinians", by a radical Brasillian cartoonist named Carlos Latuff is what caused the conservative uproar. It depicts a Jewish boy, in a Nazi Germany era ghetto, a Star of David sewn into his clothes, proclaiming "I am a Palestinian." This particular series depicts many icons of oppressed peoples throughout the world today and in popular history proclaiming that same statement as icons of solidarity with the people of Palestine. The cartoon in question is being declared "Anti-Semitic."
The cartoon is among many articles of varying opinion and content posted to the open publishing newswires on Independent Media Centers all over the world, which anyone can post to and which have limited editorial control. It is an open forum for breaking news, opinion and is clearly declared such. It is apparent that even rumor makes it on and is regulated as the public IMC policy dictates. Despite this, it is the Swiss IMC team that has come under pressure, even though they appear only to be one element of a global grassroots network maintaining a somewhat autonomous news service.
Palestinians, the vast majority of which are not the stereotypical militant "terrorists" in western media, are under heavy assault and illegal occupation by Sharon's controversial Israeli Defense Force, which is backed with arms trading from the U.S. in violation of United Nations directives.
Recently, mainstream media has reported that even the Israeli people are not unified behind Sharon's tactics. Thousands protested for peace in Israel while Sharon announced he will retaliate to every act of violence; his bulldozers, F16s and M16s against a fanatical and desperate few drawn from an widespread pool of antagonism by an even smaller cadre of militaristic and autonomous self-declared freedom fighters. Over 260 members of the IDF have refused to serve in the occupied territories. The CBS Evening News reported on 17 February that Palestinian women have come to join the men and boys in growing non-violent protests against the occupation forces. |
