2024 activities moving here https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/8m-activities

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MARCH 8, 2024: TRANSNATIONAL ANTI-COLONIAL TRANS*FEMINIST COUNTER CLOUD ACTION DAY


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MARCH 8, 2023: INTERNATIONAL TRANS*FEMINIST DIGITAL DEPLETION STRIKE

Join local actions or organise your own :-)
Call to strike in many languages, hosted on many servers: https://donestech.net/8m/
Latest news: https://systerserver.town/@digitaldepletion

✨ STUTTGART ✨

Call For Zine: How would you Imagine a trans*feminist world. Creative 8. März Action https://transfem0711.hotglue.me/?start/

✨ AARHUS ✨

08/03 Collaboration with local feminist group on the International Women's Day 
WARM UP FOR THE EQUALITY MARCH//DEMONSTRATION PRE-PARTY // Cafe Mellemfolk https://www.ms.dk/en/mellemfolk
14:00-18.30
Talk about the Digital Depletion strike and why to talk about technology on the 8th March
Students show speculative designs for technology with trans*feminist values (made with https://www.transfeministech.codingrights.org/ ) 

Students translate the call into Danish. 

✨ BERLIN ✨

FLINTA* No-Cloud-CryptoParty at Heart of Code
11:30-13:00, Marielle-Franco-Platz / Mariannenplatz 2 A, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg 
http://heartofcode.org/8maerz

✨ TBILISI ✨

Pre-8M:
04.03 - 05.03 : collective translation >> community members get together and translate/discuss/publish International Trans★Feminist Digital Depletion Strike txt.

✨ BASEL ✨

11.00 - 12.00 A collective reading of Poetics of the Undercommons by Fred Moten for a tarot reading on counter cloud infrastructuring, plus a collective performance of Waiting for ice cream by Sergina. 

14.00 - 17.00 Join us in the Critical Media Lab space at HGK-Basel for 
THE GUIDE & #Sergina
a word               an act(ions)            a sound    an object               a body    a sun beam showing up dust    lands in a space   to be   inspected   by those who witness it : processed by and alongside, despite + inspite of: triggers, memories, emotions, judgements, moods, knowledges, assumptions, time zones, relationships 
                            hopes, 
       desires, 

Perhaps they will refuse and simply lie still on the floor and invite you to join (in). Perhaps this is the act/ion you have wanted to see all along. 

also possible to join or stream into your own space via    
https://bbb.constantvzw.org/b/hel-gnt-ooc-gni

more info on how to find us here https://criticalmedialab.ch/researching-in-two-acts/

✨ DUNDEE ✨

Meet-up in the Kieller center for collective cloud drawing and discussion.
https://neondigitalarts.com/international-transfeminist-digital-depletion-strike/

✨ BARCELONA ✨

Pre-8M:
02.03.2023 | 18.30h-20h: Pickets in the Cloud, a public call to strike and open conversation between Cristina Cochior, Karl Moubarak and Jara Rocha at Hangar.

✨ GHENT ✨

11:00-13:00 brunch + discussion @ Atelier De Zaal, 
KASK Ghent

✨ BRUSSELS ✨

A partir de 10h : lecture collective, création de pancartes et écoute radio. Si tu veux, laisse ton ordinateur portable et ton smartphone de côté <3 Nous rejoindrons la marche qui partira de la Gare Centrale dans l'après-midi. Accueil : Chaussee de Jette 388, Bruxelles (studio partagé et espace de travail collectif de e.a. Common room, TITiPI et Constant). L'espace est au rez-de-chaussée et l'accès est presque sans obstacles. Le jeudi 9 mars à 18h00, une vitrine spéciale conçue par des étudiants de l'erg ouvrira dans les bureaux de Constant au 5 Fortstraat. https://constantvzw.org/site/Constant_V-8-March-International-Trans-Feminist-Digital-Depletion-Strike,3709.html?lang=fr

Vanaf 10:00: samen lezen, spandoeken maken en radio luisteren. Als je wil, laat je laptop en smartphone thuis <3 Later sluiten we aan bij de mars die in de middag vertrekt van het Centraal Station. Welkom aan de Jetsesteenweg 388, Brussel (gedeelde studio en collectieve werkruimte van o.a. Common room, TITiPI en Constant). De ruimte bevindt zich op de begane grond en is vrijwel gelijkvloers. Op donderdag 9 maart om 18:00 opent in Constant's kantoor in de Fortstraat 5 een speciale vitrine, ontworpen door studenten van erg. https://constantvzw.org/site/Constant_V-8-March-International-Trans-Feminist-Digital-Depletion-Strike,3709.html?lang=nl

From 10:00: collective reading, placard making and radio-listening. If you want, you can leave your laptop and smartphone at home <3 We will join the march leaving from Central Station in the afternoon. Welcome at Chaussee de Jette 388, Brussels (shared studio and collective workspace of a.o. Common room, TITiPI and Constant). The space is on the ground floor and has almost step free access. On Thursday 9 March at 18:00, a special window display designed by erg students will open in Constant's office at 5 Fortstraat. https://constantvzw.org/site/Constant_V-8-March-International-Trans-Feminist-Digital-Depletion-Strike,3709.html?lang=nl

✨ LONDON ✨

Node name: FogHorn
10:00-12:00 — 'counter-cloud stories' — online etherpad get together -> https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/foghorn
14:00-18:00 - web server hacking at Goldsmiths with In-grid
19:30 — pub gathering @ Peckham Pelican 
+
Covert reporting from CLOUD EXPO at the Excel Centre in London
Stickers

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Dispersing the Cloud Workshop: Exploring Alternatives to Big Tech through Collaborative Zine-Making  @ LCC BA UXD Dept

✨ ROTTERDAM ✨

Dancing in the ruins of Big Tech / Dansen op de ruïnes van Big Tech
16:00-20:00 @ Varia, Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam
16:00-16:45 Discussion of the call to strike by the Breakfast Club
16:45-17:00 Chat & introduction to rosa, a feminist server
17:00-18:00 where_is_my_money.py
17:30-19:30 Ongoing activities in the space:
19:30-20:00 Hangout
https://vvvvvvaria.org/8M-strike.html

✨ COPENHAGEN ✨

A Videostore After the End of the World
The servers are down. The streaming has stopped. The cloud is gone. 
Welcome to A Video Store After the End of the World.

A Video Store After the End of the World  pops up at the space Collega as a window installation and collective action calling for a scaledown of extractive digital services. Rescued VHS tapes, a strike banner and a preview version of a "Mixtape of Counter-Cloud Strategies" will be on display.

Program
10.00 – 16.00 : Window installation is open
15.00 : Join for a toast to the ruins of big tech and carry a strike banner with us to the demo of the International Women’s Day on Rådhuspladsen.

Location: Collega, Flensborggade 57, 1669 Copenhagen, Denmark. (https://collega.dk/)
https://vhs.data.coop/

✨ LEICESTER ✨

Ludd walk
Join us for a Luddite walk on Wednesday 8th March. We'll meet at Two Queens, before setting off through the city, passing the Guildhall and other sites connected to the history of the Luddites as we walk out to Anstey, where Ned Ludd is memorialised in a street name and supposedly buried in St. Mary's churchyard.
https://bruise.in/8m.html

✨ NANTES ✨

https://mobilizon.fr/events/fed2c68c-c124-47a8-9b09-40ebfe58c720
Re-writing the kernel - server stories from a trans-feminist future. 
Online discussion and experimentation with server core languages that explore Trans*Feminist logic, methods, concepts. 

✨ PARIS ✨

https://club1.fr/8m-2023
https://mobilizon.picasoft.net/events/cf3801ca-0bd4-4ceb-a39c-6a2e361e6771
At CLUB1, we organize an open closet day around the home-server. A good time to discuss about our cloud addiction, exchange datas with USB keys and listen to each others internet stories.

✨ ANTWERP ✨

08/03 Live Radio Transmission from the Public Library with local feminist group "8 march collectief" on the International Women's Day 
guests - webgang/ooooo:: https://www.radiocentraal.be / 14:15-14:30 or   / LIVE STREAMING via  http://streams.movemedia.eu/centraal
Announce Digital Depletion strike + contextualize + / LIVE STREAMING via  http://streams.movemedia.eu/centraal 15:45-16:00 Greasy horses bike ride

✨ LINZ ✨

8/3 ++ Servus Counter Cloud Clinic ++ from 19:00 in Clubraum in the stadtwerkstatt
++ part of the program "feministisch wilde Wochen in der STWST" - https://newcontext.stwst.at/international_women_s_day
++ with demo + rally on main square + Feminist*innen lesen Feminist*innen + Radio Program from radio FRO https://www.fro.at/m8rz

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+ more to be announced in:
GRAZ
AMSTERDAM
EDINGBURGH
LIVERPOOL
AMSTERDAM
ZURICH
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