Information liberation. Challenging the corruptions of information power

http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/Schweik_cbe/). The group is named after the fictional character Schweik (or Svejk), a soldier who created havoc in the Austrian army during World War I by pretending to be extremely stupid. See Jaroslav Hasek, The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War. Translated by Cecil Parrot. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974).

Footnotes to chapter 6

1

In Australia and the US, perhaps one out of five suits goes to trial: Michael Newcity, “The sociology of defamation in Australia and the United States,” Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 1991, pp. 1-69.

2

Eric Barendt, Laurence Lustgarten, Kenneth Norrie and Hugh Stephenson, Libel and the Media: The Chilling Effect (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).

3

George W. Pring and Penelope Canan, SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996).

4

David Bowman, “The story of a review and its $180,000 consequence,” Australian Society, Vol. 2, No. 6, 1 July 1983, pp. 28-30.

5

David Hickie, “Askin: friend to organised crime,” National Times, 13-19 September 1981, pp. 1, 8

6

Graeme Leech, “Lecturer drops suits against students,” Australian, 28 April 1993, p. 13; Andrea Malone and Sarah Todd, “Facts and fiction of the Waight saga,” Australian, 5 May 1993, p. 14.

7

Robert Pullan, Guilty Secrets: Free Speech and Defamation in Australia (Sydney: Pascal Press, 1994), pp. 27-28.

8

Avon Lovell, The Mickelberg Stitch (Perth: Creative Research, 1985); Avon Lovell, Split Image: International Mystery of the Mickelberg Affair (Perth: Creative Research, 1990).

9

Richard Ackland, “Policing a citizen’s right to expression,” Financial Review, 9 February 1996, p. 30.

10

http://www.mcspotlight.org; John Vidal, McLibel (London: Macmillan, 1997).

11

David Kairys, “Freedom of speech,” in David Kairys (ed.), The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982), pp. 140-171.

Footnotes to chapter 7

1

John M. Blatt, Dynamic Economic Systems: A Post-Keynesian Approach (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1983).

2

See, for example, Amritananda Das, Foundations of Gandhian Economics (Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1979).

3

David Dickson, The New Politics of Science (New York: Pantheon, 1984); Janice Newson and Howard Buchbinder, The University Means Business: Universities, Corporations and Academic Work (Toronto: Garamond Press, 1988); James Ridgeway, The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis (New York: Random House, 1968); Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918).