Gregoire Seither
Encyclopedia
Gregor Seither is a franco-German journalist
, graphic designer
, interpreter and Internet activist
, founding member of the 1984 network liberty alliance
, a loose international cyber network of free speech and privacy activists. He is the founder and administrator of the now defunct French hacktivist Bulletin Board System
Pom-Pom [telnet://pompom.rebelalliance.net:2002] as well as the anti-censorship information compound Libertes & Internets (all info compiled by Zikiupdate)
Since 1998 Seither heads the francophone office of IES News Service (Intelligence Economique et Strategique), an international network of intelligence analysts that publishes various custom-tailored, subscription-only newsletters. Since December 2007, IES News Service has joined forces with other news outlets to form IES Media Cooperative.
Seither has also worked as graphic designer and iconographer for Aquent Partners as well as a free-lance interpreter and translator for Peachpit Press, Pearson Education
, Apple Inc. and Microsoft
.
In November 1984, Gregoire Seither was among the conveners of a "debriefing" workshop of the European Peace Marches
on the Hartmannswillerkopf
in Alsace
, France, following the struggle against the installation of Pershing II and SS-20 nuclear missiles in Germany (Mutlangen
). Among the many initiatives that emerged from this meeting, was the foundation of the 1984 network liberty alliance
in (ironic) reference to George Orwell
's novel 1984 and to the Rebel Alliance
of the movie Star Wars
.
Other founders are Dov Lerner, computer graduate at MIT and disciple of Saul Alinsky
, the French philosopher André Gorz
as well as Frauke Hahn who had led the woman's resistance ('Commons Women') at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
, David Szwarc from the Israeli Peace movement
and Adama Drasiweni, computer graduate from the University of London
, future founder of N'DA, Africa's first independent telecom company. Other members joined later on, all active in various social movements and peace initiatives in Europe and the USA.
He also works as a volunteer interpreter for Babels, an international network of volunteer interpreters, translators and language diversity activists.
Seither has organized and taught on a volunteer base, community interpreting courses for NGOs working with the refugee community in Kibera (Kenya), Bamako (Mali) and Calais/Sangatte (France).
Seither manages KANAKY ONLINE (http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanaky/) http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanaky/ the officiel mailing list of the KANAK INDEPEDENCE MOVEMENT as well as KANEKA DJ (http://www.live365.com/stations/kanekadj) http://www.live365.com/stations/kanekadj, the only Internet radio station devoted to KANEKA
Music, the melanesian contemporary music style of New-Caledonia.
From 1990 to 1994, Seither has worked for the state-funded JEAN MARIE TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE
/ AGENCY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF KANAK CULTURE
(Agence de Développement de la Culture Kanak)http://www.adck.nc/.
From 1994 to 1997, Gregor Seither was Head of Design and Production for DPOD Digital Print On Demand in Auckland
, New Zealand. He is a partner of Hexaprint, a printing and gravure specialist in Tel-Aviv and Singapore
.
Seither is co-founder and manager of the information compound Libertés & Internets - http://libertesinternets.wordpress.com/ (http://libertesinternets.wordpress.com/), (http://www.libertes-internets.net/archives/) http://www.libertes-internets.net/archives/ sent to subscribers by email, and dealing with privacy issues, surveillance and propaganda in the information age.
Seither coordinates the weekly French edition of TidBITS, a weekly newsletter devoted to the Apple Macintosh and the Internet, published by Adam Engst out of New York.
Seither is a member of the European Committee against Modern Slavery http://www.ccem-antislavery.org/ and publishes the monthly magazine of the French section "Esclaves Encore !".
Seither also designs and manages the publication of magazines for the French Green Party
, notably : "Le Vert Paris"http://paris.lesverts.fr/article.php3?id_article=207, "Le Chemin Vert" http://lesvertsparis18.ouvaton.org/ and "La Souris Verte"Village intergalactique au contre-G8 d'Annemasse and OGM : ferme ta gueule, ouvre la bouche et fais confiance aux experts
of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP) (Arabic
: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Tahrīr Filastīn) is a Marxist-Leninist
, secular, nationalist
Palestinian
political and military organization, founded in 1967.
Former member of Hashomer Hatzair
and with close ties to old Mapam
(radical wing of the Meretz-Yachad
party, Seither has repeatedly advocated the Binational solution
(One-State-Solution) in his writings, calling for the normalization of Israel through the establishment of a new non-Zionist political entity based on democracy, equal rights between all citizens and secular values.
He has nevertheless supported initiatives that do not support this solution. In 2003 he participated in preparation of the Geneva Accord
initiative, together with Azmi Bishara
and Dov Lerner.
Along with former Israeli President Avraham Burg
and writer Yitzhak Laor
he has repeatedly defined Zionism as one of the last remnants of the euro-centric, white colonial ideologies that marked the XXth Century. As such, according to Seither, Zionism is bound to disappear, like Rhodesia, South African Apartheid, French New-Caledonia or like colonialism as a whole.
Seither is the author of books and manuals dealing with computers and the printing industry :
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, graphic designer
Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
, interpreter and Internet activist
Internet activism
Internet activism is the use of electronic communication technologies such as e-mail, the World Wide Web, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster communications by citizen movements and the delivery of local information to a large audience...
, founding member of the 1984 network liberty alliance
1984 Network Liberty Alliance
1984 Network Liberty Alliance is loose group of software programmers, artists, social activists and radical militants, interested in computers and networks and considering them tools to empower and link the various actors of the social movement around the world...
, a loose international cyber network of free speech and privacy activists. He is the founder and administrator of the now defunct French hacktivist Bulletin Board System
Bulletin board system
A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...
Pom-Pom [telnet://pompom.rebelalliance.net:2002] as well as the anti-censorship information compound Libertes & Internets (all info compiled by Zikiupdate)
Since 1998 Seither heads the francophone office of IES News Service (Intelligence Economique et Strategique), an international network of intelligence analysts that publishes various custom-tailored, subscription-only newsletters. Since December 2007, IES News Service has joined forces with other news outlets to form IES Media Cooperative.
Seither has also worked as graphic designer and iconographer for Aquent Partners as well as a free-lance interpreter and translator for Peachpit Press, Pearson Education
Pearson Education
Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools...
, Apple Inc. and Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
.
In November 1984, Gregoire Seither was among the conveners of a "debriefing" workshop of the European Peace Marches
European Peace Marches
From 1978 to 1992, this European-wide network of initiatives within the Peace Movement had mobilized millions of citizens, protesting the arms race, the growth of military spending and joining in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. It had many ties to the peace groups in the former German...
on the Hartmannswillerkopf
Hartmannswillerkopf
Hartmannswillerkopf, also known as the Vieil Armand or Hartmannsweilerkopf is a pyramidal rocky spur in the Vosges mountains of Alsace. The peak stands at overlooking the Rhine valley. At Hartmannswillerkopf stands a national monument of World War I for the fighting which took place in the...
in Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
, France, following the struggle against the installation of Pershing II and SS-20 nuclear missiles in Germany (Mutlangen
Mutlangen
Mutlangen is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, in Ostalbkreis district. As of 1 August 2007, Mutlangen has 6,548 inhabitants....
). Among the many initiatives that emerged from this meeting, was the foundation of the 1984 network liberty alliance
1984 Network Liberty Alliance
1984 Network Liberty Alliance is loose group of software programmers, artists, social activists and radical militants, interested in computers and networks and considering them tools to empower and link the various actors of the social movement around the world...
in (ironic) reference to George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...
's novel 1984 and to the Rebel Alliance
Rebel Alliance
The Alliance to Restore the Republic is an interstellar faction of the fictional universe of Star Wars....
of the movie Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
.
Other founders are Dov Lerner, computer graduate at MIT and disciple of Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky
Saul David Alinsky was a Jewish American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing, and has been compared in Playboy magazine to Thomas Paine as being "one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left." He is often noted...
, the French philosopher André Gorz
André Gorz
André Gorz , pen name of Gérard Horst, born Gerhard Hirsch, also known by his pen name Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher. Also a journalist, he co-founded Le Nouvel Observateur weekly in 1964...
as well as Frauke Hahn who had led the woman's resistance ('Commons Women') at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was a peace camp established to protest at nuclear weapons being sited at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began in September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the British...
, David Szwarc from the Israeli Peace movement
Peace movement
A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war , minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace...
and Adama Drasiweni, computer graduate from the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, future founder of N'DA, Africa's first independent telecom company. Other members joined later on, all active in various social movements and peace initiatives in Europe and the USA.
Interpretation and Translation
Since 1999, Seither has been working as a professional French-English-German conference interpreter and translator for language service providers in Paris (FR), London (UK) and Brussels (BE).He also works as a volunteer interpreter for Babels, an international network of volunteer interpreters, translators and language diversity activists.
Seither has organized and taught on a volunteer base, community interpreting courses for NGOs working with the refugee community in Kibera (Kenya), Bamako (Mali) and Calais/Sangatte (France).
Nouvelle-Calédonie (New-Caledonia / South Pacific)
From 1988 to 1995, Seither has worked in the French colony of New-Caledonia - :fr:Nouvelle-Calédonie (Nouvelle-Calédonie) in the South Pacific, for the publishing arm of the pro-independence KANAK LIBERATION FRONT -- http://www.kanaky.org (FRONT DE LIBÉRATION NATIONALE KANAK ET SOCIALISTE) - EDIPOP Publishing House, BWENANDO newspaper and RADIO DJIIDO radio station.Seither manages KANAKY ONLINE (http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanaky/) http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/kanaky/ the officiel mailing list of the KANAK INDEPEDENCE MOVEMENT as well as KANEKA DJ (http://www.live365.com/stations/kanekadj) http://www.live365.com/stations/kanekadj, the only Internet radio station devoted to KANEKA
Music of New Caledonia
The music of New Caledonia includes a folk music heritage in the Melanesian tradition. The Pacific Tempo is an important music festival, held every three years in Noumea; the biennial equinox is also an important celebration....
Music, the melanesian contemporary music style of New-Caledonia.
From 1990 to 1994, Seither has worked for the state-funded JEAN MARIE TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE
Jean-Marie Tjibaou
Jean-Marie Tjibaou was a leader of the Kanak independence movement and a politician in New Caledonia. The son of a tribal chief, Tjibaou was ordained a priest but abandoned his religious vocation for a life in political activism...
/ AGENCY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF KANAK CULTURE
Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture
The Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture is an administrative agency, established in 1989, to preserve and promote Kanak and Pacific Islands culture, art and heritage. It was formed on the first anniversary of the signature Matignon-Oudinot Ageement's to recognise and promote the values of...
(Agence de Développement de la Culture Kanak)http://www.adck.nc/.
From 1994 to 1997, Gregor Seither was Head of Design and Production for DPOD Digital Print On Demand in Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, New Zealand. He is a partner of Hexaprint, a printing and gravure specialist in Tel-Aviv and Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
.
Europe
Since 1998, Seither is the Paris Director of IES News Service (Intelligence Economique et Strategique, an international network of intelligence analysts that publishes various custom-tailored, subscription-only newsletter. IES News Service has offices in Auckland (New-Zealand), Panama City (Panama), Istanbul (Turkey), Kirkuk (Kurdistan / Iraq), Tel-Aviv (Israel), Ramallah (Occupied Palestine) as well as Beirut (Lebanon).Seither is co-founder and manager of the information compound Libertés & Internets - http://libertesinternets.wordpress.com/ (http://libertesinternets.wordpress.com/), (http://www.libertes-internets.net/archives/) http://www.libertes-internets.net/archives/ sent to subscribers by email, and dealing with privacy issues, surveillance and propaganda in the information age.
Seither coordinates the weekly French edition of TidBITS, a weekly newsletter devoted to the Apple Macintosh and the Internet, published by Adam Engst out of New York.
Seither is a member of the European Committee against Modern Slavery http://www.ccem-antislavery.org/ and publishes the monthly magazine of the French section "Esclaves Encore !".
Seither also designs and manages the publication of magazines for the French Green Party
The Greens (France)
The Greens were a Green political party to the centre-left of the political spectrum in France. They had officially been in existence since 1984, but their spiritual roots could be traced as far back as René Dumont’s candidacy for the presidency in 1974...
, notably : "Le Vert Paris"http://paris.lesverts.fr/article.php3?id_article=207, "Le Chemin Vert" http://lesvertsparis18.ouvaton.org/ and "La Souris Verte"Village intergalactique au contre-G8 d'Annemasse and OGM : ferme ta gueule, ouvre la bouche et fais confiance aux experts
Palestine
From 1984 to 1989, Seither was a contributing editor of the francophone Palestinian monthly newsletter and radio-show Al-Haddaf /Voix de la Palestine, with close ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) - and notably to Al Hakim / George HabashGeorge Habash
George Habash also known by his laqab "al-Hakim" was a Palestinian nationalist. Habash, a Palestinian Christian, founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which pioneered the hijacking of airplanes as a Middle East militant tactic...
of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organisation founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization , the largest being Fatah...
(PFLP) (Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Tahrīr Filastīn) is a Marxist-Leninist
Marxism-Leninism
Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Marxism and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of a international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship...
, secular, nationalist
Nationalism
Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...
Palestinian
Palestinian nationalism
Palestinian nationalism is the national movement of the Palestinian people. It has roots in Pan-Arabism and other movements rejecting colonialism and calling for national independence. More recently, Palestinian Nationalism is expressed through the Israeli–Palestinian conflict...
political and military organization, founded in 1967.
Former member of Hashomer Hatzair
Hashomer Hatzair
Hashomer Hatzair is a Socialist–Zionist youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine...
and with close ties to old Mapam
Mapam
Mapam was a political party in Israel and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Meretz party.-History:Mapam was formed by a January 1948 merger of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party and Ahdut HaAvoda Poale Zion Movement. The party was originally Marxist-Zionist in its outlook and represented...
(radical wing of the Meretz-Yachad
Meretz-Yachad
New Movement-Meretz , previously known as Meretz, then Yachad, and then Meretz-Yachad is a left-wing, Zionist, social democratic political party in Israel....
party, Seither has repeatedly advocated the Binational solution
Binational solution
The one-state solution and the similar binational solution are proposed approaches to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Proponents of a binational solution to the conflict advocate either a single state in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or a single state in Israel and the West...
(One-State-Solution) in his writings, calling for the normalization of Israel through the establishment of a new non-Zionist political entity based on democracy, equal rights between all citizens and secular values.
He has nevertheless supported initiatives that do not support this solution. In 2003 he participated in preparation of the Geneva Accord
Geneva Accord
The Geneva Initiative, also known as the Geneva Accord, is a model permanent status agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on previous official negotiations, international resolutions, the Quartet Roadmap, the Clinton Parameters, and the Arab Peace Initiative...
initiative, together with Azmi Bishara
Azmi Bishara
Azmi Bishara , a former member of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, is a Palestinian intellectual, academic, politician, and writer.In 2007, Bishara fled Israel and resigned from the Knesset after being questioned by police on suspicion of aiding and passing information to the enemy during...
and Dov Lerner.
Along with former Israeli President Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg
Avraham "Avrum" Burg is an Israeli author; he was formerly a member of the Knesset, a chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and a Speaker of the Knesset.-Biography:...
and writer Yitzhak Laor
Yitzhak Laor
Yitzhak Laor, is an Israeli poet, author and journalist. He is the author of . He is mostly known for his poetry of political protest, particularly about the Lebanese War of 1982 and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories...
he has repeatedly defined Zionism as one of the last remnants of the euro-centric, white colonial ideologies that marked the XXth Century. As such, according to Seither, Zionism is bound to disappear, like Rhodesia, South African Apartheid, French New-Caledonia or like colonialism as a whole.
Publications
Seither has translated a number of books from US-English and German into French - mainly computer books (Pearson Education, Peachpit Press, Microsoft Press and Apple Certified Training Series) but also some literature (Nigel Barley, Joe R. Lansdale, Ben Wiltmore, Jenny Whitcouls...)Seither is the author of books and manuals dealing with computers and the printing industry :
- Adobe Acrobat (Edition ENI - France),
- PDF Workflows (CG Press - France),
- Mac Maintenance w. Christopher Breen and the French TIDBITS Team - French Edition (Peachpit Press/Pearson Education France),
- Final Cut Pro - Apple Certified Training Series (Peachpit Press / Pearson Education France)
- DVD Studio Pro - Apple Certified Training Series (Peachpit Press / Pearson Education France)
- Filemaker Pro - Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press / Pearson Education France)
- Introduction to using computers - Pearson CampusPress France
- The Tao of Going to Print (AEI Press - Sydney - 1997),
- The Mac Fix-It Handbook (AEI Press - Sydney - 1998),
- InDesign for Quark Xpress users (AEI Press - Sydney 2003).
External links
- Personal website : www.seithoz.com
- Libertés Internet Blog : Libertés-Internets
- Articles on VOLTAIRENET : VOLTAIRE
- Articles on WIKIO : Gregoire Seither
- KANAK LIBERATION FRONT Kanaky Online