A non-profit network dedicated first and foremost to broadening political debate
and providing counter-information, the E.C.N. has file and conference areas
devoted to
a number of important social themes, including gender politics, AIDS, drugs,
current struggles,
the centri sociali and workplace politics. The network's most important
facet is its NEWS file
area, which in recent years has become
a central source for information about the activities and debates
amongst the various strands of Italy's 'self-organized' left.
The E.C.N. was born in 1989 as a Europe-wide project involving Italian,
British, German and Dutch comrades. Since that time, financial difficulties
have had the unfortunate effect of
loosening these international links, leaving the network to develop
primarily within each of the countries concerned.
In the meantime, the Italian ECN has established close links with the
xchange BBS in
Melbourne, Australia. Part of that
country's small but growing anarchist computer network (@net), xchange
mirrors most of the public messages broadcast on the Padova node.
Members of the two BBS are also jointly involved in a regular English and
Italian-language electronic discussion list concerning struggles against
the planetary work machine. To find out more, check out the AUT-OP-SY
Home Page at the Spoon Collective site. To join the discussion, send
the message subscribe aut-op-sy to the list
majordomo.
The E.C.N.'s Internet connection is currently in an experimental phase,
testing out basic services such as the distribution of
bullettins and ZINES through e-mail,
an FTP site where documents and news are available, an experimental
newsgroup connected
to the BBS network, and a number of simple WWW info-pages like this one.
Any comments or suggestions can be forwarded to hobo@freenet.hut.fi.
The European Counter Network has nine nodes in Italy,
based in the following cities:
Asti,
Bologna,
Brescia, Florence, Milan,
Monselice,
Padova,
Rome and
Turin.
Today, with the Internet becoming easily accessible to more and more people,
less haphazard links between the various European components of the ECN
(e.g. the English
ECN
and the ECN France)
are once again on the agenda.
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