This has been a year of intense, great organizational activities, a year of our First Federal Cyberciruja Meeting and a community that does not stop its growing.
2023 will be remembered for several reasons, but for our community it will go down in history as the year in which Cybercirujas finished establishing itself as a group of grass-root techno-political and hacktivism, thanks to our First Federal Ciberciruja Meeting. In this Meeting, cybersurgeons from all over Argentina shared a territorial space, could see each other’s faces and necks, screw each other, bitch at each other, hug each other, settle differences and, fundamentally, improve their thinking and organizational practices. But all that can read that better in its corresponding post.
Delivered hardware balance:
Now, as we did with the previous balance, here we have the figures of equipment that we, as an Organized Community, were able to refurbish and deliver to those compatriots in dire need of working hardware to work, study or simply watch movies or enjoy video games.
This gives us a figure of 196 computers delivered, with a computer being understood as fully functional hardware ready to be used. In the case of the Córdoba Cell, they have broken down their deliveries in a more detailed form, that can be seen in this flyer. For operational reasons we made another breakdown, just as we did the previous year.
It is worth highlighting some points regarding Ciberciruja cells.
On the one hand, the Posada Cell is in formation, so we are looking for cybersurgeons in Misiones who want to join this new chapter. There is a lot of work to do there and given the current situation, our action is more than necessary. A similar situation occurs with the La Plata Cell, which is now ready to get a working space for action (this is been articulated with different sectors of society).
On the other hand, CABA’s Ciberciruja Cell had to be strongly restructured due to having lost its working space within the R-Lab. They are currently working at one of its member’s home, but for operational reasons, an own location is required, such as to have free access at any given day or time to be able to collect, repair and deliver hardware. If you know of such a place or want to help us to get a working space, do not hesitate to contact cybercirujas@disroot.org.
Balance of events
Once again this year was full of cybersurgery events. This time those had become more federalized than ever, and even transcended the borders of our South American homeland.
In Córdoba, as always, the classic “hardware hot pots” were held, counting as of December of this year, 20 consecutive uninterrupted meetings which can be seen in the high numbers of equipment delivered by the Córdoba chapter. Some videos of those meetings can be seen in this playlist. We invite Cordobans to share more audiovisual material to be uploaded. Also in Córdoba they participated in the Conference of the National Teacher Training Institute, where Nico and Cris presented their cybersurgery talks. Nor should we forget that the First Federal Meeting was held in Córdoba as we explained in the corresponding post.
Hackfun’s Rosarinx comrades, members of our community, also organized their event in cybersurgery: cyberpunk, recycled retrocomputers and retroconsoles got self-awareness to celebrate the anniversary of this group.
Finally, it was also a year of great events in CABA. The classic “Cybersurgery Club” event at the Mandril Theater began to be held in Tacheles with a total success in terms of attendance, not only from the public but also from cybersurgery projects perspective. Another totally successful, convening and highly influential event were the meetings held during the Buenos Aires winter holidays at the Kirchner Cultural Center, which allowed us to gain unexpected visibility.
Conclusions and final words:
It has been an arduous year of work and cybersurgeon activism in Argentina. We have had our frictions as a community, which is somewhat logical when a group begins to grow. But we have been able to navigate those differences during our Federal Meeting, which reinforced the ties that we had digitally woven and that we were finally able to anchor thanks to seeing each other’s faces and necks.
We have taken several more steps in the construction of a great federal hacktivist movement with a clear political tendency, which could be seen in our Federal Meeting, where the majority of attendees made it clear that Cybercirujas is a political group with no affiliation to any partisan structure. In that sense, the branch of feminist cybersurgeons planted its flag by formalizing its actions. We have made our line clear:
We fight against planned obsolescence,
We put in question the massive computer market that threatens the environment
We proclaim the right to repair and the techno-empowerment of civil society.
In this key, Cybercirujas also activated a Mastodon server, Rebel.ar, which is under complete cyberciruja administration, in Argentine territory, using renewable energies and available to anyone who wants to inhabit a fair, sovereign and free cyberspace, free of oppression and control algorithms.
Finally, it is public knowledge that our country is close to experiencing extremely difficult scenarios and situations. Today, more than ever, it is worth remembering the words that have already deeply penetrated the national idiosyncrasy: the organization conquers time and today we are more cybersurgeons than ever. Dark times are coming and we must rise to the occasion to collaborate with our compatriots in any way. Our actions today will be increasingly necessary.
Cybercirujas wishes you a happy holiday season. Let us continue in this fight and militancy, so that our Organized Community grows and flourishes everywhere so that we can collaborate with those who need it, not from charity, but from struggle and organization.
#Cybercirujas Balance of 2023
This has been a year of intense, great organizational activities, a year of our First Federal Cyberciruja Meeting and a community that does not stop its growing.
2023 will be remembered for several reasons, but for our community it will go down in history as the year in which Cybercirujas finished establishing itself as a group of grass-root techno-political and hacktivism, thanks to our First Federal Ciberciruja Meeting. In this Meeting, cybersurgeons from all over Argentina shared a territorial space, could see each other’s faces and necks, screw each other, bitch at each other, hug each other, settle differences and, fundamentally, improve their thinking and organizational practices. But all that can read that better in its corresponding post.
Delivered hardware balance:
Now, as we did with the previous balance, here we have the figures of equipment that we, as an Organized Community, were able to refurbish and deliver to those compatriots in dire need of working hardware to work, study or simply watch movies or enjoy video games.
This gives us a figure of 196 computers delivered, with a computer being understood as fully functional hardware ready to be used. In the case of the Córdoba Cell, they have broken down their deliveries in a more detailed form, that can be seen in this flyer. For operational reasons we made another breakdown, just as we did the previous year.
It is worth highlighting some points regarding Ciberciruja cells.
On the one hand, the Posada Cell is in formation, so we are looking for cybersurgeons in Misiones who want to join this new chapter. There is a lot of work to do there and given the current situation, our action is more than necessary. A similar situation occurs with the La Plata Cell, which is now ready to get a working space for action (this is been articulated with different sectors of society).
On the other hand, CABA’s Ciberciruja Cell had to be strongly restructured due to having lost its working space within the R-Lab. They are currently working at one of its member’s home, but for operational reasons, an own location is required, such as to have free access at any given day or time to be able to collect, repair and deliver hardware. If you know of such a place or want to help us to get a working space, do not hesitate to contact cybercirujas@disroot.org.
Balance of events
Once again this year was full of cybersurgery events. This time those had become more federalized than ever, and even transcended the borders of our South American homeland.
To begin with, Cybercirujas was invited to a discussion for the University of Glasgow, within the framework of "The Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing (LOCOS) where we talked about the Latin American perspective of technopolitics and hacktivism.
In Córdoba, as always, the classic “hardware hot pots” were held, counting as of December of this year, 20 consecutive uninterrupted meetings which can be seen in the high numbers of equipment delivered by the Córdoba chapter. Some videos of those meetings can be seen in this playlist. We invite Cordobans to share more audiovisual material to be uploaded. Also in Córdoba they participated in the Conference of the National Teacher Training Institute, where Nico and Cris presented their cybersurgery talks. Nor should we forget that the First Federal Meeting was held in Córdoba as we explained in the corresponding post.
Hackfun’s Rosarinx comrades, members of our community, also organized their event in cybersurgery: cyberpunk, recycled retrocomputers and retroconsoles got self-awareness to celebrate the anniversary of this group.
Finally, it was also a year of great events in CABA. The classic “Cybersurgery Club” event at the Mandril Theater began to be held in Tacheles with a total success in terms of attendance, not only from the public but also from cybersurgery projects perspective. Another totally successful, convening and highly influential event were the meetings held during the Buenos Aires winter holidays at the Kirchner Cultural Center, which allowed us to gain unexpected visibility.
Conclusions and final words:
It has been an arduous year of work and cybersurgeon activism in Argentina. We have had our frictions as a community, which is somewhat logical when a group begins to grow. But we have been able to navigate those differences during our Federal Meeting, which reinforced the ties that we had digitally woven and that we were finally able to anchor thanks to seeing each other’s faces and necks.
We have taken several more steps in the construction of a great federal hacktivist movement with a clear political tendency, which could be seen in our Federal Meeting, where the majority of attendees made it clear that Cybercirujas is a political group with no affiliation to any partisan structure. In that sense, the branch of feminist cybersurgeons planted its flag by formalizing its actions. We have made our line clear:
In this key, Cybercirujas also activated a Mastodon server, Rebel.ar, which is under complete cyberciruja administration, in Argentine territory, using renewable energies and available to anyone who wants to inhabit a fair, sovereign and free cyberspace, free of oppression and control algorithms.
Finally, it is public knowledge that our country is close to experiencing extremely difficult scenarios and situations. Today, more than ever, it is worth remembering the words that have already deeply penetrated the national idiosyncrasy: the organization conquers time and today we are more cybersurgeons than ever. Dark times are coming and we must rise to the occasion to collaborate with our compatriots in any way. Our actions today will be increasingly necessary.
Cybercirujas wishes you a happy holiday season. Let us continue in this fight and militancy, so that our Organized Community grows and flourishes everywhere so that we can collaborate with those who need it, not from charity, but from struggle and organization.