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NIN year zero: Open Source Resistance
Posted April 18th, 2007 by DJRhettMC
Hey team. It's no secret that I'm a Nine Inch Nails nut. You can read elsewhere about the 'websites from the future' mania that accompany their new album. Quite simply the Best Executed viral marketing campaign of all time. BUT.
Check out this part of it:
http://www.opensourceresistance.net
Users are encouraged to make stuff and submit THEIR version of the truth. I like! Some pretty dark/cool/creative stuff here.
Enjoy! FREE SPEECH LIVES! DJRHETTMC
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UPDATE: WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT
RESISTANCE MEETING TURNS INTO FREE NIN SHOW
Tonight a group of about 50 Art is Resistance members, including the select few from last week?s A.I.R. gathering in LA, were gathered using a series of cellphone calls and directed to an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles for a private resistance meeting and intimate live Nine Inch Nails show.
The entire meeting was caught on video and is now streaming live on Open Source Resistance.
Last week they received calls on their issued cellphones (read the report on that first meeting here) telling them to be available tonight for another resistance meeting.
Tonight they received calls again instructing them to go to Echo Park (north of LA) and await further instruction. A few minutes later another call came through directing them to this location where they met several resistance crew members who promptly frisked them of any electronic device and hoarded them into an unmarked van.
The van took them to an abandoned clothing warehouse. A few of the attendees, xaphor and cynicmuse, recited the experience on the Echoing the Sound forum:
Chairs were lined up facing a small makeshift stage.. We were confined to the left side with three sheets or red, white and black sprayed with the AIR logo broke the room in two. On both sides of the chairs about 5 crew members stood ominously overlooking the proceedings. Once everyone filled in our guide went behind a metal sliding door and a minute later a man in camo gear came out and took the stage.
He called roll and then lectured us on our stupidity in being seen at the mural meet receiving subversive material, willingly carrying the cell phone at all times allowing us to be tracked and herding on to a blacked out bus to an unknown destination. Had he been a government agency we all would have been dead. He then proceeded to mention our loss of rights and that we should wake up and use our voice?
He said ?Let?s move? and left behind the same metal door. We were then herded through the same door and up a tight wooden staircase and across to either a freight elevator or another steep staircase that took us to a darkened landing with the only light being that which filtered through the dust from above. Once everyone was down, there were lights in a room up ahead and to the left and then screaming and sudden rush as people jockeyed for front and center position as Trent and Co. broke into The Beginning of the End directly in front of us.
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RHETT's TAKE: Cool experience for the NIN fans, but also a good wake up call. When someone tells you something, THINK about what the repercussions of your act could be. Someone handing you a cell phone and telling you to keep it with you is usually not a marketing viral scheme from some band. Our experience with a certain guest should prove that everything is not always as it seems. Pay attention. Stay alert. Create things without fear that someone will censor you, but be smart about who is noticing you. Art is never safe. Fuck...the...Patriot...Act.... RM
Official Transcription 4/18/2007 Open Source Resistance Meeting
BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION:
[reads off names]
What the hell were you thinking? I just want to start by saying, you?re all dead! You were seen gathering around a piece of protest art. A shady guy in a van gave you resistance themed material, and you took it, in public, without knowledge of who they were. What if they were if FBI, NSA? We gave you phones; cell phones send a signal out to the network every 10 seconds or so. Remember after 9/11 there was a bio-terrorism scare some guy sending the anthrax [inaudible] through the mail, the FBI caught him by triangulating on his cell phone signal. So, you self identified as dissidents, you kindly agreed to carry tracking devices on yourselves, you showed up for a resistance meeting and you singed a waiver that gave us permission to do? ANYTHING. You allowed yourselves to be hustled onto a van, you let us take away any way of communicating with the outside world that you had. We could have drove you to an unknown location and led you down to this room; if this was Nazi Germany, I would walk out that door laughing , and fucking Zyklon B would start hissing out of the vents.
You learned a lesson, guys. In a real resistance, you don?t get a lot of second chances. Look. you?ve seen some scary website about what the future might become, me too. So let?s start by saying, you?re not crazy, I?m not crazy, and go from there. ?Cause like most people, I need a kick in the ass to change. I mean I was sort of politically aware, I guess, but mostly back then I read the Drudge report every now and then, and felt guilty. I might even get around to voting on Election Day. Then awhile back, some people I know, came across a.. uh? call it a transmission? uh? a few broken pieces of the future. That?s some scary shit, it shook my belief that it, you know, can happen. The other weird thing was, we thought we recognized a some things. Uh, a couple of names, uh, a certain style of a piece of art, the sound of the music. So we sent some of this stuff around to some people we thought we recognized. Obviously, we didn?t say, ?dude look, you?ve been beamed back from the future?, because none of us wanted to get [inaudible] a state psychiatric facility. What we did instead was, we sent a piece of work to the person we thought created it. [inaudible] Like hey, is someone trying to copy your style? Like that. For instance, we sent a music clip to a certain artist, and said, ?hey this sounds like something new, is it a uh bootleg or is it maybe somebody trying to leak something out of the studio on you?? A couple days later there?s something in my inbox from this artist, the subject line is, ?How the fuck did you get this?? Turns out he had written the exact words down in a notebook a few days ago, he hadn?t started working the song. The rest you know. We?ve been trying to find as many of these transmissions as possible, trying to get them out there. People are waking up to this shit! I mean they?re painting street art, they?re writing songs, I?m involved with a website, Open Source Resistance, maybe you?ve seen it?! [audience responds with muffled affirmations ] Yeah! Is this the future? I don?t know, but I sure as hell hope not.
Unfortunately, that future is closer than you think. Think about what you all have witnessed in the last few years, right here in America. In the aftermath of 9/11, the current administration has done unbelievable damage to civil liberties. If you are not a US citizen, and the government decides, God help you, that you are an enemy combatant, which that can define pretty much at will. They can throw you in jail and keep you there, FOREVER! Is there anyone here who is not a US citizen? [one audience member indicates yes] Hey! Just being here at this meeting might be sufficient cause to call you an enemy combatant. Ok, if we were the feds, we might have set this up to scare the shit out of everybody else, but you, you don?t go home tonight. You, get a one way ticket to Guantanamo Bay. What about those of us who are citizens? Tonight, you?re lucky, but what if there was another 9/11 attack? Big terrorist attack, something bigger even, something say, right here in LA soon. Lots of people killed, big chunks of the city evacuated. Do you seriously think the feds wouldn?t extend the Ashcroft laws to make catching terrorists a priority? Listen, I don?t wanna have my plane hijacked by Islamic terrorists either, I?m not crazy, but in the big picture there aren?t a lot of those guys and they don?t have a lot of money. The government has lots of money, and guns, and cops, and lawyers, you don?t want them to get in the habit of using that shit on ya. Keep them honest. Use your voice, be heard!
So what are the ordinary real things we can do to make a difference? Listen, you don?t have to be Gandhi to get involved. If politics seems big and vague, cut it down to size. You don?t have to stop the war in Iraq, look maybe you think you aught to give a shit about Iraq, but you just don?t. Listen, I grew up in Orange County, when they built state route 241 back in the ?90s, I didn?t pay attention. They said it would make the commute a lot easier, and I was all for that. Then they bulldozed it, right over the Laguna hills, they literally cut the top of the hills and dumped the fill dirt in the valleys. They mutilated it, the place that I grew up in. So then they want to build a southern expansion to 241, they wanna bulldoze it right through the San Mateo Creek watershed, which has 11 federally recognized endangered species. They want to run it up to San Onofre State Park and the Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy, and they want to wipe out the last piece of pristine coast in southern California. Which by the way [inaudible] Do I look like a surfer? But I joined the Surfriders association because those are the guys who are fighting the hardest against this thing, because it?s local and they give a shit. [audience member ?Yeah!?] Yeah! The last attorney general threatened to sue the TCA if went ahead with the 241 extension. If you give a damn, when you go home tonight, send an e-mail mean bean Jerrod Brown, our new attorney general, and tell him the exact same thing, that?s all you have to do, to start. Does that make sense? Look, I?m not asking you to be Gandhi. I?m just asking you to stop, and recognize what matters to you and make a seeing effort to actually change your world and other people who didn?t vote on their guy. All I want is this: WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT! Open your eyes and pay attention, don?t just swallow the spin, everyone?s fucking spinning, governments, gangsters, fortune 500s, the guy next door, do not swallow what they?re shoving down your throat. WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT! And for God?s sake please, do not blindly follow the line of bullshit I am giving you right now, I do not want you to buy what I am selling! What do I want? I want you to? [audience ?Wake up and give a shit!?] Nice. Do your own thinking; find out where you stand on things that matter to you. I had this really nice thing I was gonna say about how mad I was that you all showed up and all that shit, but let?s skip the bullshit. The future is ours to change, we better fuckin? get on it. It?s time to move....
Group herded to stage.
Nine Inch Nails plays 6 songs for 50 fans.
SWAT Team breaks down doors and disperses group immediately.