From their
website (www.hactivist.com,
Where anarchy and technology fuck):
"The goal of Hactivist is to bring together the efforts of the CDL and CIC under a larger front. United, our efforts can be more closely linked. Knowledge distribution and free space discussion are a requirement. It is our hope for hactivist to grow to a large enough size that it will serve as a container for all the collective DIY efforts of its members. Our revolution will not be streamed."
Hactivist means a number of things. Firstly, it is the website which serves as a voice for the members of the band
Creation is Crucifixion and the
Carbon Defense League as well as serving as a
media distrubtion site for their various
projects. Secondly, a hactivist is a person who has the
goals of a traditional
activist but uses
technology and
counter culture to reach those goals. For example, the CDL recently used freely able
information on the net to write their own
Gameboy game and
produce the carts to contain that
code (if you listen to them tell it, though, it sounds more like they did it all themselves with a
paperclip and
gum). This
game is part of their
philosophy that
capitalist society has
brainwashed
adults to such an extent that they are unreachable and therefore only
children are really viable as
receivers of their
message. Therefore, the guys purposefully targeted a medium which is sold mainly to
8-12 year old males in hopes that the groups ideas would
influence them. Their other projects include
cell phone and
pager jammers as well as an interactive distributed
mapping system which allows whoever (in their minds, however,
squatters and
radicals) to
avoid the Man by collaboratively adding
patrol routes or the like. They also publish several
documents on topics that radicals would be interested in.
The band,
Creation is Crucifixion, is pretty
hard also, if you're into
power grind metal death explosion flaming skull rock. They played
two songs at the
show I saw and then broke for
15 minutes while the lead singer told us about his group's various
endeavours. They take their
technology positive attitudes into their musical stylings also. One band member does nothing but filter samples played by a laptop through some sort of
arcane mixer/
pitch bender. Other examples of their
pro-hacker ideals: they sell
tshirts with
ASCII skulls and
perl on them, their van has a
C++ sticker as well as a
Linux is the shit sticker (but ironically, their laptop was running
Windows) and they sell one tour single in
mp3 format on a floppy.