A supporting picket action called by a US-based solidarity group was able, via instant communication with counterparts in Europe, to set off coordinated demonstrations at embassies in the West. Twenty days after the first Zapatista action, an international information network was in place and humming along merrily. It's a test case, but a deadly serious one for those on the front lines. It made this meeting most timely. Hands-on, heads up.
Participants leave with pages of e-mail addresses and visions of community in their heads.
It's more than visions, really. Just pulling the conference together created one group that will keep on communicating. Spunk pulled in more contributors to keep its archives growing, and cemented plans for interactive communications as well. The Spanish anarchists in attendance are already setting up a network of anarchist BBSes and figured out the best way to hook them up to the Internet from information received here. The Germans have a similar system running.