The Geneva_03 project is organising WSIS? WE SEIZE!, an initiative that will serve as an open platform for interventions in, outside of, counter to, and as an alternative to the agendas and organisation of the WSIS.

WSIS? WE SEIZE! features three events: a strategic convention before the UN summit in Geneva comprising discussions, panels and presentations; a polymedia lab to share tools, skills, experiences, and knowledge; and a three day netcast which will follow the revolution of the earth, streaming independent media activism and community media projects from across the globe.

Geneva_03 was formed from a loose network of activists and artists hailing from diverse backgrounds (from indymedia centers to the no border-networks, from the Free Software movement to community media, from grassroots campaigns to hacker collectives). It aims to create autonomous physical and network spaces for diverse tactical, grassroots, activist and community media actions and discussions in and around the WSIS meetings.

Their issues at hand follow:

• Shaping and subverting the information technologies that are now part of everyday life.
• Refusing both war and infowar.
• Countering the exploitation of immaterial work and informalised labour.
• Resisting border management and digital rights management.
• Defending our commons of ideas, including indigenous knowledge, scientific data, free software, educational systems and creative expression against the immense pressures of privatisation.
• Fighting for freedom of movement and freedom of communication for all people, not just those who promote and benefit from capital.

The actions taking place at WSIS? WE SEIZE! will seek to promote new ways of communicating, what is communicated, by who and for whom: to create new social formations that can address the systems of domination that surround and inform our world.

The struggle, according to Geneva_03, takes place from the local, regional and global infrastructure (radio and TV spectrum, wireless frequencies, cable rights of way, satellite orbital paths) to the content that traverses those structures. These networks should be for the benefit of and use by all the world's people, organised to nurture and sustain social co-operation.

A further preparation meeting will be set by the group at the European Social Forum in Paris in November.

For all people interested in the Geneva-03 project, the open working list may be accessed at http://lists.emdash.org/mailman/listinfo/prep-l The official website is http://www.geneva03.org.