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El Primero de Enero "Escuela Secondaria Rebelde Autonomo
Zapatista" (ESRAZ)
is the first autonomous secondary school in Chiapas. It is located
in the educational and cultural center of the Zapatista movement
in Oventic, the second Aguascalientes.
150 students and 25 promoters are studying and working there.
Although there are no telephones nor connection to the Internet,
the school has some computers stocked, and this will be our
starting point..
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 Aims
of the project
First of all we are going to meet
a community. We're going to learn the way they build and live
their autonomous cultural and social spaces. We go there to
bring the help they've required, too. We're going to install
Linux on the PCs piled in the lab, and we're going to teach
them how to install it and use it, so that they will be able
to do the same and spread the knowledge.
To be autonomous is to be independent from the knowledge monopolies.
We're going to realize a local network (LAN), and install some
basic internet services (like web server, mail server, ...),
sharing the knowledge of how to do that with them. We'll teach
them how to build a web site.
All of the working phases will follow the workshop guidelines,
being inspired to the "learn by doing" methodology,
which is one of the possible instances of the zapatista slogan
"to walk by demanding"
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A step-by-step
project
The project will not end with this
first expedition. We'll work so that further cooperations will
be possible, estabilishing other objectives further in time.
Each expedition will be an opportunity to work together with
the Oventic community to select a new tool among those ranked
as the most useful and build it.
One of this future objectives, according to the community leaders,
as well, is the connection to the Internet. We'll try to contact
groups working on solidarity (?) projects with the Chiapas communities,
in order to connect them to the Internet.
As a first step, a laptop configured as a mail server will do
the job.
The computer could be brougth to S. Cristobal and connected
to the Internet, sending and receiving the mail messages for
the students and promoters of the schoool.
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An encounter
between communities |
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We hope this to be the kick-off
of a broader relationship between the Italian community revolving
aroundthe organization of the annual hackmeeting
(www.hackmeeting.org)
and the communities of the Aguascalientes in Chiapas.
The project does not exclude other participants,
but we think that the attitude the hackers community has to
build and share tools and knowledge avoiding to get power
out of it, is well suited with that of the zapatistas
to fight for their autonomy and choose their destiny.
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How to help
We need support at different levels:
- hardware - the computers in the lab are almost degradated
va meglio
-support - to buy what we'll need, and as a fund for the mainteinance
- ideas and advices - they're always welcome
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Hardware
All the materials can be shipped to:
Palomar New Media,
via Gustavo Bianchi, 7 - 00153 Rome
*UTP
cat 5 network cable
*Network cards PCI and/or ISA
*Hub 10/100
*Working Hard Disk
*Ram
*Video cards
*Cd-Rom drivers
*Laptops
*Scanner
*Printers
*Audio devices
Denaro
Donations can be sent to the following
account
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C.C.P. 61804001
Radio Onda Rossa
via dei Volsci 56
00185 - Roma,
specificando nella causale del versamento "progetto hacklab
in Oventic".
Idee and advices
can be posted to: ezr@autistici.org
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