For the Alternative Culture and Urban Space conference, but also for our foreign visitors, here is this map of Tűzoltó utca which has an interesting although not too apparent history of self-organisation. This is still a draft and once there is a version I am totally satisfied with it could go Hungarian since maybe not too many people know all of these. Also, the people who know more should add their bits! Certainly I missed out on some key spaces like an old gallery which operated before my time, and the future riots that will hopefully bring justice to the local population. :)

The Fire Tour explores the alternative history of Tűzoltó Street and Tűzraktér through visits to specific sites and discussions with key people who are/were involved in the various initiatives. Alternative culture in this particular sense is understood as the critical evaluation of the present conditions followed by practical engagement to improve the situation, ranging from armed struggle through social work in the local community to staging international exhibitions. For a reason not understood properly, Tűzoltó ("Fireman") Street has been the location of multiple such critical projects in the past and present, even though they failed to leave an impression on the face of the street itself. Thus, what we explore during the Tour may not be evident for the casual observer.

In case you are wandering the graphics was created with Inkscape, a free vector graphics application, and the sources are available in the cool W3C SVG format: foo bar

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Tada! Az első Morze Infoshop szórólapok magyarul és angolul, leginkább az újság és folyóirat terjesztésről. Több helyi anyagra van szükségünk! Másrészt figyelni kell, hogy rendszeresen megkapjuk ezeket a jó anyagokat. Mindenesetre jövő héttől új periodikakínálattal nyitunk (csütörtök este 6-9), és egy adag új füzet is érkezik!

Nyomtatható A4-es PDF 4 db szórólappal terjesztésre: színe és fonákja.

(Bökj a képekre és kapsz egy nagyobb verziót.)

Tada! First Morze Infoshop flyers in English and Hungarian, focusing on the newspaper/journal distro part. We need to get more local materials. Also we need to make sure we have a steady line of supply from these gr34t mags. From next week, however, we open (Thu 6-9pm) with a whole fresh collection of periodicals and a bunch of new booklets are also coming in!

For printing and distribution, A4 PDF with 4 flyas: front and back.

(Click on the images to get a bigger version.)

Csütörtökön az infoshopban tartunk matrica/stencil/poszter bevezető workshopot, este 6-9-ig, utána az utcán spontán folytatódik.

Olyan kérdésekre kaphatsz választ, mint:

• milyen matrica papírok vannak, hol lehet kapni őket olcsón és mire jók?
• nyomdában illetve fénymásoldában hogy, hol és mennyiért lehet nyomtatni?
• hogy kell posztert ragasztani?
• fotóból hogy lesz stencilhez felhasználható kép?
• hogy kell stencilt vágni?

Nem egymást követő előadások lesznek hanem szabad közös munka ami közben egymástól tanulunk!

Beszélgetés a Morze Infoshopban
Tűzraktér, Hegedű utca 3., 1. emelet, folyosó vége
2009 február 4. 18:30

Alexis Grigoropoulos meggyilkolása múltév decemberében a diktatúra ideje óta a legnagyobb felkelés-hullámhoz vezetett Görögországban. Az állami erőszak és elnyomás ügynökei megöltek egy 15 éves fiút, amire a görög fiatalság kiterjedt zavargásokkal válaszolt, a nemzetközi szintéren pedig egykettőre kialakult egy szolidaritási mozgalom. A megmozdulások nem csak a konkrét gyilkosság ellen szóltak, hanem a kapitalizmus, a pénzügyi válság és a jobboldali kormányok számtalan barbársága ellen is.

Szeretnénk egy nyilvános vitát és információs estet rendezni a görög zavargásokról és az elkövetkezendő európai lázadásokról, illetve a görög radikális baloldali mozgalom helyzetéről és történetéről. Beszélnünk kell a görög fiatalság válaszáról a pénzügyi válság újkapitalista tényére, az erőszakosan terjedő munkerőpiaci és mindennapi bizonytalanságra, és a hasonló tényezőkre amelyek lázadáshoz vezethetnek.

Olyan kérdéseket szeretnénk megtárgyalni, amiket ez a mozgalom felvetett, mint pl.:

• "Mit jelent győzni a posztfordista nyugati kapitalista metropoliszokban?"
• "Milyen népi követeléseket állított a mozgalom a középpontjába?"
• "Hogyan működhetnek a horizontális szerveződési stratégiák a jelen körülmények között?"
• "Hogyan maradhatnak relevánsak a gyakorlati autonómia, a globális kapitalizmus helyi alternatívái, az önszerveződés?"
• "Az önszerveződés és a hálózatosodás milyen új formái segítségével lehet koordinálni a nemzetközi ellenállást a kapitalizmus ellen?"
• és IGEN!, hogyan lehetnek "újabb Seattle", "újabb görög zavargások", "új átmenetileg független területek", "új alulról szerveződő mozgalomak és győzelmek"?

Ez csak néhány kérdés a sok közül ami felmerült bennünk és még más dolgokról is szeretnénk beszélni. Jó lenne, ha áthidalhatnánk a különbséget az előadók és a fogyasztók között. Szóval készülj fel, hozd el a saját kérdéseidet és véleményedet a beszélgetésre...

Morze Infoshop

morze-infoshop@riseup.net

Info event at Morze Infoshop
Tűzraktér, Hegedű utca 3., 1. emelet, folyosó vége
2009, February 4., 18:30

The murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos last December initiated one of the more massive uprisings in Greece, from the era of dictatorship until now. The murder of the 15-year-old boy by the agents of violence and oppression from the state ignited a general insurrection of the greek youth, as well as an international solidarity movement. The solidarity movement was directed not only towards the actual incident of the murder, but also caused a number of actions and criticism against the innumerable capitalistic barbarities, financial crisis and the right wing government.

We call for a public info night including discussion about the Greek insurrection and the upcoming revolts in Europe as well as presenting/discussing the history of the Greek radical movements. According also with the current situation into the Greek youth during the ''new capitalist fact'' of the financial crisis , violent precarization and other related issues to that popular uprising.

We would like also to initiate a discussion about some questions and problems that this movement tried to make visible!

• "What does it means in the age of post fordist capitalist western or western ''inspired'' metropolis to win?"
• "Which popular demands are again in the surface of the movement?"
• "How horisontality can function successfully in the anticapitalist movements of the modern world?"
• "How can practical autonomy and local alternatives to global capitalism and self organization remain relevant?"
• "Which new forms of organization and networking are necessary to coordinate successfully the international resistance against capitalism in our daily lives?"
• and YES! for establishing again "new Seattles", "new greek revolts", "new temporary autonomous zones", "new grassroot movements and victories?"

These are only some questions related to the Greek insurrection but we hope to discuss more. Our aim is to avoid the gap between presenters and consumers. You are definitely welcome to add your questions and statements to this debate...

Why was I nervous all day if I use privacy tools all the time? Because of specialisation. Professionals use professional tools, so they can be very stupid when it comes to empowering people who have only 3 hours to spend on a thing. We already discussed this in Dijon: system administrators simply don't log into the webmail interface their collective provides as a service because it's a lame and clumsy thing to do: they have their own 1337 mailreaders. Yesterday I was talking a Riseup person about their web interface: if it provides PGP support or not. He was not sure about it since he never uses this, but most users use it every day. That's why Riseup introduced a ticket system through which users can help each other: as the example above shows, sometimes the novices can learn more effectively from the advanced users than from the administrators. We had a similar dynamic in today's workshop about online privacy: the participants who achieved one task helped out those who struggled with it, and we went forward like this, step-by-step together like a swarm.

PGP or Pretty Good Privacy is a way to encrypt (and sign) your emails. It does not provide anonymity, just encryption and authentication, so your social network and communication habits are still public. You need to use anonymous remailers if you want anonymity as well, but they constitute a lore more obscure. So with PGP the Subject of the mail, the time and the addresses involved are up for grabs, but at least the body is encrypted.

The most fascinating thing about PGP is that is uses an irreversible mathematical algorhytm. Everybody has two keys: the public key for propagation and the private key which is a personal secret not to be shared with anyone even if they ask. A signed and encrypted message will be jumbled using a combination of the recipient's public key and the sender's private key, and restored using a combination of the recipient's private key and the sender's public key. Because of this you need to exchange keys with your partners, which is a fascinating social ritual, like in a Stevenson novel. At one point the United States government banned it from export because they categorised it as ammo.

So we spent one hour talking and doing a walk-through and then two hours in two small groups. We went from creating an account to exchanging encrypted messages. Of course there were problems, typically about people forgetting their passphrases just after they created their keys, and in one case we couldn't figure out what was going on until the end. The rest is nonexact statistics: at least 6 new email addresses with radical technology collectives, 8 PGP keypairs generated, 2 new Tor users on the block, and around 10 people all-in-all at the workshop. I repeated our mantra "There is no perfect security." enough times that some people asked for further explanations, so we will have a smaller workshop next week and another big one at the end of February. Another bad day for the authorities, another day when people share knowledge and arm themselves with it.

• 2008-01-29 18:00
• Sirály, Király utca 50.
• Titkosított levelezés
• Anoním Internetezés
• Hozd el a számítógéped!

Vigyázz a seggedre a kibertérben és alázd meg a társadalmi kontroll mindenttudó isteneit! A műhely során elsajátíthatod az Internetes lopakodás alapjait, mint a PGP használata titkosított levelezéshez és az anoním szörfölés Tor-al. Az említett technológiák hatékonyabb alkalmazása érdekében azt is megtanuljuk, hogy hogyan szerezzünk kalóz email címet és hogyan futtassunk böngészőt pendrive-ról.

• 2009-01-29 18:00
• Sirály, Király utca 50.
• Encrypted emailing
• Anonymous browsing
• Bring your computer!

Watch your back in cyberspace and defy the omniscient gods of control society! The workshop covers the very basics of online stealth like email encryption with Pretty Good Privacy and anonymous browsing with Tor. In order to take more advantage of these technologies we will learn how to get a pirate email address and how to run an Internet browser from a pendrive. No special prior knowledge required.

Why is it necessary to operate an infoshop?

An infoshop is a free place of self-organisation, information exchange and public debate. There are many similar institutions like public libraries, pubs, universities, art galleries and the like. However, almost all of them have been set up by an official and hierarchical organisation which seeks to advance its economic and/or political interests through framing the discourse in a particular way. The infoshop should be different for three reasons. Firstly, the interests that call into existence and maintain it are nonhierarchical and self-organised. Secondly, there is an open structure with weekly meetings where anybody can join in, so the power relations are not based on representation. Thirdly, it is a very lightweight infrastructure which leaves little place for abuse even if it happens. On the other hand, the infoshop is not a place for a public discourse based on pure rationality, unbiased by power relations. Maybe it would be nice, but it's impossible. Objectivity is just a functional part of the liberal ideology: every communication is shaped by the power structure in which it happens. There is no "free speech" as such, nor naked truth. A place where anybody can say anything they want -- that would be an empty discourse without mutual understanding and practical consequences. What an infoshop can offer is an inclusive environment where the discourse is based on the interest of the people without power. The development of such discourse is one necessary condition for revolutionary social change that introduced nonhierarchical power relations and self-organisation into everyday life on a massive scale.

An infoshop is a place where...

• You can hang out in a noncommercial environment, meet like-minded people, educate yourself and others.
• You can find the latest newspapers, periodicals, calls and announcements, leaflets, etc.
• Punks and professors can find rare academic books, hardcore fanzines, and do research against the system.
• People who come to Budapest for the first time can get in touch with the antiauthoritarian political underground.
• All horizontalist grassroots groups can hold open or closed meetings, debates, workshops, working sessions.
• You can browse the archive of materials (from flyers through thesis papers to books) on:

• Anarchism
• Class struggles
• Gender
• Antiglobalisation
• Climate change
• Animal liberation