[sudo-discuss] my transmitter design on the cover of a book
Ben Burke
benjaminburke at me.com
Fri Nov 7 13:44:05 PST 2014
Do you have a copy of the book that you can bring to omni for reading purposes?
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
> look at the cover of this book (you can click on the image)
>
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/low-power-people
>
> the text in the back cover says:
>
> Jake designed this transmitter with the help of wizened elders, to
> provide a reliable and repairable communications device for noncapitalist
> communities around the world. At that time, cheap and effective
> transmitters from China were not yet available on eBay, found by
> searching for ST-15B in "consumer electronics".
>
> you'll notice that there are pictures of Mandela and Ghandi on there. The circuitboards were fabbed eight at a time, so we put a transparency over the whole thing with EIGHT different pairs of dead revolutionaries:
>
> Mandela and Ghandi
> Nina Simone and Rosa Parks
> Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
> Rachel Corrie and Judi Bari
> Fidel Castro and Che Guevarra
> Emma Goldman and Mother Jones
> Ernesto Zapata and Ricardo Flores Magon
> Annie Oakley and Lyudmila Pavlichenko
>
> you might notice a pattern of dichotomy in rhetoric vs. direct action, that was accidental.
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