Protest.Net is a collective of activists who are working together to create our
own media. By publishing a public record of our political activities on the web
we are taking a stand against the established media. We are standing up and
showing that serious activism is alive and well at the dawn of the 21st century.
Everyday from Kansas to India activists are meeting, organizing, and protesting
to demand a better world for all. When the corporate media takes note of our
activities it is only to spit upon our struggle. We are accused of being misinformed
bleading heart hooligans with nothing better to do than march up and down blocking traffic.
Yet the rich get richer, and we are told to be complacent, to wait for our due. They
say the environment isn't being destroyed, it's ok to kill millions of Iraqi's with
vindictive sanctions, that the billions living in slums just need to work harder,
that global domination by a corporate elite is the only way. Activists around the
world are fighting for a better world. We can't rely on the media establishment to
cover our movements. We will rise up and seize the means of communication!
Protest.Net has started setting up syndicated versions of the site. The version for Z Magazine's Znet
is up at ZNet.protest.net, IGC, and Rage Against The Machine.
We can also setup syndicated activist calendar for your site. It takes
us some work, but if you can help reach a new audiences or can contribute some fiscal support to protest.net then we're
interested in setting one up for you.
Send us a note at support at protest.net if you are interested.
Protest.net has been highly praised in the press, the NY Times even went so far as to say that Protest.Net "could bring new volume to civil
disobedience in the future." For that to happen we need your help. There are three ways you can help us:
You can join the events team which works to add events to the site that are emailed to us. There are thousands of actions that we know about but
don't have the time to post. Members of the events team agree to spend a couple of hours each week adding events to the site. It doesn't require any
special technical knowledge, just a computer and a net connection. Events team volunteers get an account on the Protest.Net server which includes an
email address and space to host their own webpage. If you are interested please send email to evan@protest.net
with Events Team in the subject.
Quotes About Protest.Net:
"Protest. Net, your gateway to 21st century global activism. The site sports
Team Anarchy 2001's official colors--black background, red headlines" -
American
Spectator
The Mouse That Roars - Third Eye
"Where angry activists go" - Rolling Stone "Best College Websites"
"Right hand on mouse, left fist in the air!" - Netscape What's New
"Rebels with rather to many causes" - NTK.net
"It's like finding the protest du jour" - David Ronfeldt, senior social scientist at RAND.
"[Police] are wondering whether one side-effect of the information age is going to be an upsurge of civil disobedience....
[Protest.Net] schedules campaigns for groups in much of the world.... Perhaps someone should tell the police. "
- The Economist
"Protest.Net is great!" (Or something along those lines) - Lots of people via email
"One of the coolest things I have heard in a long time." - Brian Dominick
"Almost enough by itself to disprove the myth that activism is dead in the `90s" -
Sojourners Magazine
"A central source of information for activists on many issues." - The Atlantic Monthly
"Not Your Father's Antiwar Movement" - The Atlantic Monthly
"The militants' internet activities are being closely monitored, according to Peter Ryan, chief of the New
South Wales police, and Australia's secret service is in close contact with MI5 and the FBI.... These include
ProtestNet, Ruckus..." The
Sunday Times - London August 6th 2000
"Excellent website... You are performing a very useful function. If only we had the internet &
protest.net during the Vietnam War, the Kent State rebellion,
the national student strike of 1970, etc. Keep up the good work!"
- Alan Canfora
(One of the protesters shot at Kent State on May 4th 1970)
"Au nombre de ces communautés virtuelles, les activistes figurent en bonne place.
Lesquels ont des usages d'Internet qui leur sont parfois spécifiques. On s'en fera
une idée en visitant le Protest Net, vaste nomenclature constamment mise à jour des
actions militantes se pratiquant un peu partout dans le monde et vous invitant à y
prendre part." - Le Devoir
Articles About Protest.Net
Sometimes articles about protest.net are positive. They talk about how we're
an example of the net becoming a democratizing force in the world and how activists
are using this wonderful new invention to change the world. Others accuse Protest.Net of
organizing violence and being a bunch of pinko tree-hugging bleeding heart commie
nationalist fundamentalist anarchist anti-capitalist longhairs. Those are my words not theirs,
but you get the gist. ;-) Some folks like what we're doing others don't. We are always
in favor of people making up their own mind but if you want to read what the media establishment
has to say about us here you go...
Philadelphia Inquirer, June 24, 2000
With Republicans on the way,
activists take to the Internet
MSNBC, April 15, 2000
Mobilizing protest on the Web
Economist, August 14, 1999
Organising Violence [Civil Disobedience] on the Internet
Wall Street Journal, August 5, 1999
Web Becomes a Cybertool For Wired Political Activists
Le Devoir, April 19, 1999
Kosovo, l'autre couverture
Washington Post, April 15, 1999
Waging War on War
The Atlantic Monthly, April 14, 1999
Not Your Father's Antiwar Movement
Le Devoir, December 7, 1998
Cyberactivisme et cybercitoyenneté
Sojourners Magazine, November, 1998
Betcha Wonderin' How I Knew?
NY Times, September 2, 1998
Protest Portal Unites Activists Under One URL
Anyway
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best anyway.
-- Meditations From A Simple Path -- by Mother Teresa
"In Germany they first came for the communists and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for
the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they
came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoller
Awards:
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| Nominated for Activism 2000 & 2001 |
 Cool Sitings award on March 31st, 2000 by Netscape What's Cool.
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Protest.Net can be reached via email at
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