Hacktion

In preparation

What it is

A residents' group calls a rally. A tenants' union opens a defence office. An assembly organises a food distribution. All of that happens every day, and almost all of it stays inside the circle of people who were already inside.

Hacktion is the megaphone. We don't organise the action, we don't run it and we don't take credit for it: we publish it, put it on the map and connect it with the people reading this.

Why

The manifesto talks about looking for breaking points: concrete actions with real impact. Most of them already exist. Multiplying what others do is faster than inventing it from scratch, and a good deal more honest than putting our name on someone else's work.

It is also the branch that closes the circle: what OccupyBnB explains how to do, Hacktion shows who is already doing it.

You're a collective and you want to be here

Write to info@hackthesystem.eu telling us who you are, what you do and where. We aren't publishing anyone yet —the reason is below— but we want to know who's out there before we open.

Why no collective is published yet

This is the first section whose content we don't produce ourselves, and that changes the rules.

• Written admission criteria: what counts as a collaborating collective and what doesn't. Without them, the first time we say no there will be no way to explain it. And they have to cover leaving, too.
• Who decides: publishing some and not others is a political decision. It needs a name and a method.
• The legal limits of spreading someone else's call to action, which is not the same as reporting on it.
• The separation: every action will state who is calling it. We amplify; we do not organise.