{ synagogue in Hannover } … (1) On Nov. 9th in 1938, more than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps, roughly around 2,000–2,500 citizens were murdered ( incl. suicides ), over 1000 synagogues (and possibly as many as 2,000) were burned (95 in Vienna alone), and 7,500 Jewish stores and businesses were damaged or destroyed … and the pogroms that lasted 7 years were fully mobilized across Europe. (2) On Nov. 9th, 1989, the DDR fell ( or in eng, GDR ) and Germany was on its way to reunification ( treaty signed August 31, 1990 ).

… < Nov.8 > Aaron Swartz Day At The Internet Archive, 6pm On what would have been Aaron Swartz’s 28th birthday (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) , a planet-wide event begins today to honor his dreams of making the world a better place! To protest the injustices of his and others’ thuggish persecution. And to mobilize the movements further ! We finally had time to catch “The Internet’s Own Boy” in full, and it’s very emotional stuff, and probably best to watch and share it together with your friends + community … rather than absorbing it alone in the cubicle mode.

… { Part 2 of 3… Part 1 is here } work-in-progress … Analyzing Cory Doctorow’s Info-ex-centrisms We’re still processing the rapid-fire concepts of Cory Doctorow, who spoke at the JCCSF last week. The auditorium was oddly empty due to a scheduling mishap pitting a crucial discussion on the future of culture and technology ( in the land of silicon vulture capitalism ) against the un-worldly televised opiate spectacle of ( billionaire-franchised ) baseball. Everything about this presentation of his new book – Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free ” ( out in a couple weeks on McSweeney’s ) strikes us as being misaligned with addressing or resolving the sociological upheavals in the current climate of a voracious technocentric appetite.

… < Oct.29 > JCCSF Lectures w/ Cory Doctorow , with David Pescovitz Presented in partnership with Boing Boing (warning : expensive! ) Extract: ” Can lesser-known artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? Science fiction author, activist, journalist and Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of the U.K. Open Rights Group. His latest book, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age.

{ Radar and anti-ballistic missile bunker from Cold War 1.0 } … We’ve been using a slide w/ text from the Slow Tech Manifesto ( read in full here ) combined with an image of the Nekoma Safeguard Complex ( aka Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, which cost a mere $6 billion and was a total strategic and operational FAILURE ) for our latest CiTiZEN KiNO (#40) performances focused on analyzing and critiquing Technotopian ideology. Ranting about the misplaced and wasted resources by the Military Industrial Complex was also our theme for a show we did in Leipzig last summer.

… { snapshot from The Great Martian War, and a remix/edit by Plazma } … < Oct.10 > CiTiZEN KiNO #40.5 : Technotopia – All U Can’t Eat ! Scollan Ranch in Sacramento. ( afraid you’ll have to email us if you want directions ). By donation, to help cover our train costs. Yes, California has a few […]

… < 10.03.14 > NOiseBridge Reboot Party Rumor has it that vj podinski ( XLterrestrials + CiTiZEN KiNO ) will be added to the sensory inputs… among all sorts of other wild fun: Mock Church Audrey Spinazola (solo looper/Accordian/uke) Elipton (dark electronic powered by an Apple IIgs Project Euphorbia (aka “The Orbs”), etc… … … more coming soon !

~~~ Ironically this beautiful captured image of the Climate Action march of roughly 400,000 peeps in NYC was taken from a civilian-use drone. A fascinating and expanding Re-re-appropriation phenomenon of what began as a hacker hobby, went full-blown into military and surveillance industry , and now is frequently seen used by activists to get a selfie […]

~ `°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º° ~ XLterrestrials present CiTiZEN KiNO (#40) on THE CALI-CIDAL TENDENCIES TOUR ~ < SEPTEMBER > < Sept. 16 > Sudo Room / Omni, Oakland, Ca. – 7 pm < Sept. 18 > New Nothing Cinema, San Fran , 16 Sherman Alley (betw. Folsom & Harrison, 6th & 7th) – As part of Shaping SF Talks. 8pm - < Sept.19 > Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St., San Fran – 7 pm - ~ { Foto: remixd from Nadine and Nina at C-KiNO launch party in Berlin.

XLTerrestrials and CiTiZEN KiNO coming to a location near YOU ! ::: ~ XLT oN TouR ~ < AUGUST > < 11.08 > C-KiNO #40.1 + Afterparty at Morgenrot Cafe, Berlin 20:00h < 15.08 > Interference Festival / Conference , Amsterdam < 16.08 > Interference Party w/ dj Podmosis and many others at Binnenpret, A’dam ———————————– < SEPTEMBER > THE CALI-CIDAL TENDENCIES TOUR – CiTiZEN KiNO events - TBA - Left Coast Territories – Los Angeles / San Fran / Oakland / Davis

::: XLterrestrials On Tour * New * Please visit the new XLt Tour Page, where you’ll also find a PRESS RELEASE, and ways you can perhaps support us as we construct the itinerary. We plan to present CiTiZEN KiNO at a variety of events and spaces from NOW until Dec. 15, 2014. And we’re also looking further […]

::: ” The massacres continue after another short ceasefire… the footage we’ve just watched is the stuff of nightmares… it feels like civilization is unraveling, not just in Gaza… but in multiple war zones… Because there are no world leaders anymore, just blood-lusting, hand wringing and hand-shaking clowns, all with corpses in their closets, running from […]

:::: Correction : < 31.07 > < 30.07 > WEDNESDAY: CiTiZEN KiNOMATiCA #40 : All You Can’t Eat ! at Panke, Berlin 21:00h ( the fedbook invite ) < 10.08 or 11.08 > ( TBA ) C-KiNO #40.1 at Morgenrot Cafe, Berlin 20:00h < 15.08 > Interference Festival / Conference , Amsterdam < Sept.> The California Ideology Crash tour, TBA ::: The […]

* … … … #OKFest2014 scribbled notes: … Only 2 sessions thus far … And from the dark sides of the Chernobyl-ing Net Culture… 1.The Horrors of Open Data … and 2. E-Waste exploration: opening up our gadgets and looking into what happens when they die… Loads of great people around and about, but we wish we could be planting a garden together […]

::: { image from O Doutrinador by Luciano Cunha * } … < June12-July13 > CiTiZEN KiNO presente ! special edition WOrld Clip Interventions, read more HERE … online, and in Berlin, and beyond. Multiple Venues TBA. … < June21 > “Hacker treffen Harker. Commons Sommerfest” in Berlin am 21.06. … Technophiles, Slow Tech Movement, Free Software Foundation Europe, BerlinerLinux User Group, Freifunk, Solidarity Economy, Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie, Share peeps, etc etc… http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/hacker-treffen-harker-commons-sommerfest-in-berlin-am-21-06/ [ Eng below ] … < June 25 > CiTiZEN KiNO #39 : World Clip Interventions – Brazil focus, at Panke, Berlin ( the Fedbook invite )