<nettime-ann> [ann] AntiWar404: Movement not found?

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AntiWar404            GetPeaceful.org/AntiWar404 

>> Perceive what's gone missing from the web. <<

Since the start of the World Wide Web thousands
of anti-war and pro-peace projects have already 
come and gone.  Now GetPeaceful.org presents a 
first-ever collection of its kind documenting 
the traces of anti-war movements that have 
disappeared among the sponsored links, spams,
and twittering machines of today's infoverse.  

Contemporary search engines have a tendency to 
make dead websites disappear quietly. AntiWar404 
counteracts some of the resulting amnesia. It 
offers a concise record of the peace movement 
forgotten by Google, resurrecting pages and pages 
of war resistance that you won't find in your 
search engine results. Documents re-found! 

Maybe this is a good time to rediscover the 
Anti-war Movement?  While many in the U.S. voted 
for Barack Obama to end the hawkish foreign policy 
of the Bush era, so far the investments in Bush's 
wars have only increased. April was the deadliest 
month this year for both Iraqi civilians and 
American soldiers. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, 
aerial bombardments of villages -- and allegations 
that the U.S. has used white phosphorus weapons -- 
have further diminished sympathy for the U.S. 
presence in the region. Yet the demand for an 
immediate end to Bush's wars is barely audible 
in the din of American media.  As the military 
misadventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan escalate, 
the role played by independent media in the lead 
up to the war in Iraq is now "not found." 

GetPeaceful.org is a non-profit media initiative 
that uses online media to highlight peace advocacy 
across the globe.  Two high-profile GetPeaceful 
assets -- the Anti-War Web Ring and Anti-War 
Directory -- have handled more than a million 
queries since 2002.  They feature hundreds of 
sites dedicated to peaceful conflict resolution, 
ending ongoing wars, and raising awareness about 
the cyclical aspects of warfare and related 
business. The core inspiration for AntiWar404 
came from the maintenance of these information 
services, and the recognition that many of the 
sites listed in the Directory were disappearing.

In addition to providing information about anti-war 
efforts around the world, GetPeaceful presents 
original online art that concerns war. During the 
various wars of the past decade, earlier projects 
developed by the founder of GetPeaceful, Andy Deck, 
have been featured in publications around the world, 
such as El Pais, the New York Times, der Spiegel, 
Nokta, and Eleftherotypia. These include Withdrawal 
Wizard (2004), Commission Control (1999), and 
PsyOP-Art (2003). Mr. Deck specializes in online 
media. His work with participative Internet media 
has explored the limits and possibilities of the 
Internet as an artistic medium.
 
For more about these and other projects, please visit 
the website GetPeaceful.org

http://getpeaceful.org/antiWar404/press/antiWar404.html

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