Well i'm back down at ACCRC in oakland helping get some computers set up for schools in Afghanistan. The ones for Ecuador are still sitting on the docks but i have high hopes that once they do finally go we won't have too many problems getting them through customs.
Last week when i was fiddling with judi at the redwood peace and justice center in Arcata i ran in to some earth firsters. They've got some treesits which have been up for 6 months. That's long enough that the media starts paying attention. Remedy's been up there for that long and Wryn's been up there for 4 months. We got to talking and decided that we could her online. See from her tree there is line of sight to another tree on the property a friendly person. We're going to be running a phone line and power cable up one redwood. There we're going to have a dial on demand 802.11 access point and an antenna pointing across the valley at the sit. At this very moment we're going through potential kamikazi laptops. Once we get it setup we'll be able to have a treesit blog where the sitters will be able to publish their articles and journals about the process of putting their bodies on the line for months or years in treesits.
ok, now the tree-sit network just kicks ass. having a site and blog i think will allow for some very postitive communication and dialog about what the earth firsters are doing.
Posted by: mediageek at October 15, 2002 03:18 AMTurns out the location we were hoping to connect to doesn't have line of sight. But you can see down in to Eureka so with any luck we'll be able to find somebody with a dsl line who will let us put something on their roof. It's longer distance, between 5 and 10 miles, so we'll have to get a real antenna and not use some coffee can.
Yeah i can imagine once we get it setup it could make a little stir in the blogging community. Of course remedy and wryn probally aren't really in to techie stuff or computers. Hopefully they'll get in to it and at least understand the importance enough to keep it updated.
Posted by: rabble at October 18, 2002 10:17 PMMishka rules !
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