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Thursday, February 7, 2002 - 02:00
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52 [3]
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As activists gather here for marches and rallies protesting the meeting of the World Economic Forum, Internet provocateurs are planning a series of demonstrations of their own online. Groups including the Electronic Disturbance Theater, RTMark, and Federation of Random Action are counting on as many as 100,000 people to stage "virtual sit-ins" at the websites of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its corporate members. The idea is to "annoy" the conglomerates into a dialogue and draw media at...read more [4]

As activists gather here for marches and rallies protesting the meeting of the World Economic Forum, Internet provocateurs are planning a series of demonstrations of their own online. Groups including the Electronic Disturbance Theater, RTMark, and Federation of Random Action are counting on as many as 100,000 people to stage "virtual sit-ins" at the websites of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its corporate members. The idea is to "annoy" the conglomerates into a dialogue and draw media attention to concerns about globalization.

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