Cyberactivists brought down the the web site of the World Economic Forum in a "virtual sit-in." The attack was coordinated by the Electronic Disturbance Theater, Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Federation of Random Action.
The activists have been urging people to help with the attacks on www.weforum.org. At Indymedia.org. messages from those groups took credit for the crash.
Charles McLean, the forum's communications director said, "We regard it as a nuisance. We hope the site goes back up soon."
This was just one of many non-violent activities protesting the globalization summit in New York.
Helen Caldicott has been an anti-nuclear activist for decades. In her new book, she details the Pentagon's latest strategies for war and combating terrorism, and how these strategies are shaped by the needs of the Military/Industrial Complex and politicians, rather than the American people.
Especially frightening is how close we are to a nuclear holocaust at this time in history thanks to Bush's foreign policies, a revived nuclear weapons program and America's obsession with weapons of mass destruction.
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The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
