ABSTRACT
On 19 June 1999, messages and reports from the ‘June 18 project’ started doing the rounds across various Internet mailing lists. 18 June was the first ‘international day of action aimed at the heart of the global economy’, an international effort at organization that went on to produce major protests in Geneva, Seattle, Melbourne and Prague over the next eighteen months. The first international day of action had been organized by the British collective ‘Reclaim the Streets’, who mainly relied on the Internet to rally constellations of activist collectives around the globe. The protesters’ idea was that capital was now operating mainly at a virtual, networked and global level, and resistance to capital had to start from the same level, using decentralized, global network technologies, in order to target the hidden nodes of global command.
