Join the SwarmTheMinuteMen.com and Electronic Disturbance Theater Virtual Sit-In Against Anti-Immigrant Websites, from Tuesday July 20th -Thursday, July 22nd

To join, click here: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html

This, the second action coordinated by SWARM [1], is an attempt to move beyond the minutemen [2] - as one group of people working against migrants and migratory movement – to a systemic logic. This logic that pervades American society [3] is canonized in Academia and institutionalized in the US border Patrol. [4]

It is logic that ‘others’ migrant people and people of color in general. [5] It marginalizes migrants; dehumanizes migrants; Subjects them to unnecessary violence and persecution. [6]

The recent and broad-based recognition and legitimization [7] of these anti-immigrant groups is rooted in a much larger ideology that underpins white American identity. [8] It is an ideology that tells its history as if it is not a history of migrants, immigrants, and indigenous peoples some of whom suffered genocide in the face of European migration. [9] This attention has also re-invigorated even more radical and racist organizations [10] Though some may portray the Minutemen as simply “backward hicks’ – they share the interests and goals of academics like Samuel Huntington [11] , the policy makers behind NAFTA [12] and the US patriot act [13], and US nationalists. [14] The rhetoric of such policies has paved the way for Nazis and White Supremacist to rise again. This Racism is systemic within the US. It goes from the mouth of a Ivy League academic to the gun of a civilian border agent. [15]

This virtual sit-in is an attempt to disrupt the modes of communication and information dissemination that facilitate racist organizing. Over the next few weeks, the California Minutemen Border Patrol Auxiliary camp out in Campo, recommencing their summer long campaign of violence against Migrant people [16]. For this we will not stand – but SIT – IN – In conjunction with protests at the Minutemen camps [17], on their virtual domain – in the names of those who have died and will die as a result of their actions. The software we are using request files from the servers of the targeted websites that are not found – files like Justice, Freedom, and the names of those who have died crossing the border [18]. In effect you will see the error message – “files not found.