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TAO COMMUNICATION HTTP://WWW.TAO.CA

DIVERSIFY THE CULTURE AND DISTRIBUTE POWER

who are we: Tao Communication is a regional federation comprised of local autonomous collectives and individuals. We
organize networks as a means of defending and expanding public space, exercising the right to self-determination. We
create knowledge through independent public interest research, and distribute it freely through participatory education.
We actively promote the establishment of worker-owned and operated autonomous zones. Under the belief that intorma-
tion should be free, we operate against capital or market-regulated forms of political, economic and cultural organization,
and towards socially just, ecologically sound, international liberation. We advocate democratic exercise of the means of
production to help achieve these beliefs. We also create tactical arts intended for such practical and inspirational appli-
cation, as to encourage other autonomous groups and individuals to join us in our struggle for democracy and equal rights.

SERVICES: tao has been known to offer the following services, either on a pay-what-you-can basis, or under contract.
TAO workers are unionized with the WW, section 560. (Industrial Workers of the World.)
NETWORK SERVICES: COMPUTER SERVICES: CHILD CARE:
* linux shell * linux (install & maintenance) * single or group
* email addresses and lists * training * camp or activity based
* web sites (design and/or hosting) * general consultation * from computers to theatre play
* database design and development * destruction
* irc meeting space ORGANIZING:
* general server admin THEATRE: * meetings (facilitation and planning
* training * improv workshops)
* general consultation * street * conferences / fora
* custom design * script * workshops
* workshops * direct action
MEDIA SERVICES: * vegan feasts
* tactical RESEARCH: * therapy
* production * (anti)corporate
* publishing * network URBAN RENEWAL:
* writing and editing * media * public art

* general relations * activist strategy * gardening
* infiltration * agriculture
* landscaping

what can you do? in short, here are three immediate needs that tao communications needs to address:

1) HARDWARE:

have you any, or do you know of any, spare hardware lying around? we'd like to start stockpiling stuff (old and new) so as to
start building tao boxes that we can either sink into the network, or distribute to those in need. please take the effort to look
in your cellars, ask your neighbours, comrades, and friends, and really try to dig up what you can, and email us at
tao@tao.ca so we can arrange collection. this will be a big plus in helping us distribute and stabilize the access we enable.

2) BANDWIDTH

if we're going to start building tao boxes, we need to find free, or at least extremely cheap, places to put them throughout
the nets. again, ask your friends, co-workers, union buddies, techies, telecomnauts, and anyone who may have access to
a LAN (local area network) which we could install a box in, adminster remotely, and then connect into our own emerging
WAN (wide area network) that resides throughout the internet. we intend on organizing this on the email list
matrix@tao.ca, although it has been quiet there of late. look for tao boxes to bloom with spring, and help create a secure
and autonomous network for us to organize effectively.

3) FUNDRAISING

the simple reality is that we need money. we need to be able to pay labour, we need to establish work space in toronto
(where much of the labour resides), and we need to be able to pay travel costs so that we humans can break out of the
chains of email communication, and remind us who the humans are behind the moveable type. this is not simply a call for
you to personally contribute funds, but rather a call for labour to help organize something locally, regionally, or wherever
you fee! comfortable, helping to raise financial support for tao.ca. if you know of any potential grants, funding opportuni-
ties, deluded capitalists willing to part with money, or any other leads, please let us know, but even better, please consid-
er contributing the labour necessary to help us conduct this patchwork of a poor folks’ fundraising campaign. contact
tao@tao.ca with organising efforts, suggestions, and ‘where can i send the cheque’-type messages.

TAO COMMUNICATION HTTP://WWW.TAO.CA