on-going spats. He quickly apologised and the site continues in its free form and often cantankerous manner.

At its best the list serve is a true life line for the thousands of Prison activists and families of prisoners out there waging
what has been lonely battles against powerful state and corporate apparati and the peculiar form of state slavery that has
evolved in this post Cold War World. The prison movement for many of us battle scarred lefties is the final battle: one
which looks at the true end stage of “free market" capital. We are looking at the face of fascism in America. We are the
enemy.

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Of course, the dream of abolishing borders is much older than the Internet. The myth of borders was always tied up with
the myth of pushing them back, overwhelming them, and moving the frontier forward. In the current process of globaliza-
tion, borders, at least those which encompass nation-states, seem to disappear in a way -- but for flows of money, goods,
and capital, not for people. Borderlands have become a laboratory for new control technologies, and the postmodern or
Post- national borderlines become the barrings of a worldwide apartheid system.

Nevertheless, the hype of the Internet is essentially based on the promise that the worldwide dissemination of new tech-
nologies might remove all barriers between people. Many critics have unmasked this rhetoric as an escape from real ex-
isting capitalism or as promotional campaign for neoliberal barbarism. However, there is a more dangerous mistake made
in the popular regard for the net as an ‘alternative' territory to the ‘real world,’ or as a place, where free and unfettered
communication might become a reality. In this view, borders become something you cannot see or touch, and the net and
the various networks became an arena for ‘new’ border policies.

Ironically, then, the iron curtain was replaced very quickly by these new borders, which consist of the strategic use of
modern observation and surveillance technologies. Thus we see the rise of huge decentralised databases such as
Schengen Information System (SIS) and its national supplementary counterparts called SIRENE, or the fingerprint database
in which personal data about asylum-seekers is stored. The relation? Along the German borderline with Poland and the
Czech Republic, border guards are armed with a wide range of high-tech gadgets: Global Position System (GPS) navigation
devices, thermo- and infra-red-cameras, and so on.

Thus, the former border is moving, folding in on itself: it is mapping the borderland and inner cities, the railways and main
arteries, and the communications networks, The borders are moving forward to neighbouring countries, expanding the
Control system toward a zone model, which includes the Schengenland as its center, surrounded by a cordon of countries
under intense surveillance. These efforts are marked as well by intense propoganda that stigmatises minorities, defames
migration and mobility, and co-opts or coerces the local populations into acting as collaborators and administrators of the
border regime.

But is there still a chance to take the promise of the net seriously and turn these misunderstandings to productivity? If so,
how can we claim for all what us permitted to only the very few with the resources to travel and settle freely? Free access
for all - in REAL LIFE -- is our goal: open borders and freedom of movement for everybody. These are not questions of char-
ity or compassion, but a matter of course and concern for all. This is no longer a naive dream but a reality for everyone:

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