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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262626">Thanks for forwarding this, Ana and sorry to hear of these difficulties. I’m wondering if maybe Renate might need to moderate the post? That happened to me with my first post.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262626">Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ana Valdés <agora158@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 5:49 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Empyre Empyre Owner <empyre-owner@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>, "Gradecki, Jennifer" <j.gradecki@northeastern.edu>, Murat Nemet-Nejat <muratnn@gmail.com>, Renate Terese Ferro <rferro@cornell.edu>, soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Fwd: Next level the Zapatistas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all sorry of I spam you but my message sent yesterday seems not being distributed to the list. Jennifer was so kind to look at the archives I did it myself but either Jennifer or myself didn’t find it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since it’s a short week and I wanted so many as possible to participate in the discussions I wanted to be able to post more than one message!<o:p></o:p></p>
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From: <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ana Valdés</span></strong> <<a href="mailto:agora158@gmail.com">agora158@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 18:24<br>
Subject: Next level the Zapatistas<br>
To: soft_skinned_space <<a href="mailto:empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au">empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Continuing with my examples of how technology cam be used for the good I remember how the Zapatistas and his leader Comandante Zero used the digital space to crate a really liberated zone, a zone as the ones described by Hakim Bey in his
essay about autonomous zones far from the central axis of power.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our work with the people in Jenin can sees here <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The virtual room allowed people to exercise and perform their freedom and became a powerful loudspeaker.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Comandante Zero shared with the V hero from Vendetta his anonymity. Behind the mask the leadership could be exercised in a collective way and the cult to the leader be bypassed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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