It's summer! Hooray! And that means that it's hot in San Diego, and that lots of people are traveling to various protests like the G8 in japan and the upcoming RNC/DNC protests. Also, people are moving in and out of the Free Skool, so thinkgs are a bit in flux.

Basically, right now we only have one volunteer to cover sundays and open the lab and that's not enough to stay open. We've been here for a year and regularly have kids from the neighborhood come to use the computers. It helps if you speak spanish, but its not necessary at all. We're so in need that we just need someone to open the doors and be here from 1-3pm. If there's another time that works for you, we can check the calendar and put out signs and open when you can come, but we have people who regularly come on sundays, so that's best.

We are creating the world we want to see instead of asking for it or waiting for it. Help us do that!

If you can help, please email us at sdhacklab A+ lists d0t riseup d0t net, or call the city heights free skool at 619-528-8060.

More info at http://sdhacklab.org and http://cityheightsfreeskool.org or click "read more" or the article title for more details...

Here's our recent call for volunteers:

WANTED: RADICAL PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PLAY WITH TECHNOLOGY

The borderlands Hacklab is looking for radical people of all persuasions anticapitaliste - queer, anarchist, autonomist, zapatista, freeskoolers, bikelovers, radical pornographers, anti-corporate-media-makers, conjurers of worlds, artists, pagans, vegans, freegans, geegans, gardeners, monsters, cute dancers...

to be part of the borderlands Hacklab network! we play with technology adn try to make new worlds with blinky lights and try to help more people be able to play with technology.

we work with the city heights free skool and have open lab hours on sundays at the free skool from 1-3pm. for that, we need folks who can teach people how to use a mouse, windows, scroll bars and email, or (open)office programs like word and excel.

do you want to be part of this network, being part of creating new worlds out of the technological garbage left over from capitalism? helping to bring down walls and corporate boards and imperialist websites with tens of thousands of people? helping your neighbors and neighborhood radicals be more technologically empowered?

if so, email

sdhacklab

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lists

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riseup

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net

or check out http://sdhacklab.org

or send me a myspace msg!

digital kisses...

lotu5
one member of the borderlands hacklab network

more about the borderlands hacklab:

The borderLands hackLab is based in San Diego, California.

Our goals are to:

* provide technology for radical groups in san diego
* work towards technical self-sufficiency within our radical community
* challenge the tradition of racism, sexism and homophobia in technical education
* educate people about free software ideals and the usage of free software
* utilize our privilege as people in the U.S. to share technology with people who don't have the same level of access

Generally, our goals are to create more radical technology in san diego and provide tech solidarity abroad, specifically to the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico.

The borderlands hacklab is a network of hackers, artists and activists in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. We are creating a space for autonomous technology, that is, technology within autonomous social movements, operating outside of the State or the traditional forms of the left such as political parties or unions. When we say radical above, we generally mean anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-authoritarian, or pro-decentralization of power.

"For years, months, days, we networks and communities of individuals have been exchanging knowledge, designing worlds, experimenting with gizmos and devices.

We are the expression of a thousand thoughts, we are migrants across the City and the Net; we are searching for a place where our commonalities and practices can open up space-time discontinuities.

We want to hack reality, and we need a lab to reassemble its basic elements. In a metropolis scared by unreal securities and too real fears, we yearn to give birth to a site of full of imageries made flesh, of bytes resurrecting metal.

Our collective mind is replete with digital/analog technology, info-communication, knowledge-sharing, meme-spreading, participation-catalysis, and much much more.

The four cardinal points are no longer sufficient coordinates. As Mars is closer to Earth than ever in history, there is no better time for a new reticular constellation, for a new geometry of relations that can freely recompile low-entropy bioware, stunning and getting stunned by vivid special effects and lively affects.

Reload, Hacklab Milano, Sept 14 2003"