A-Infos (en) France, OCL: A look back at the actions against the 2025 Internet of Things Show in Lyon (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

See online: Regional Anti-Arms and Militarism Collective 
https://craam.noblogs.org/ ---- Against SIDO and its world! ---- A look 
back at the actions against the 2025 Internet of Things Show in Lyon 
---- Wednesday, September 17, in the morning, at the Cité Internationale 
de Lyon Convention Center. ---- A good twenty individuals from several 
cities (Lyon, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne, Mâcon, etc.), responding to the 
call of several groups (Écran Total Lyon, Stop 5G Lyon, Grothendieck 
Group (Grenoble), Regional Anti-Arms and Militarism Coordination, 
Anarchist Federation Lyon, Stop Micro (Grenoble), Technopolice Lyon, 
Stop Arming Israel Lyon) are speaking out. For the third year, armed 
with placards, leaflets, banners, flags, slogans, and chants, they 
denounced the holding of the Internet of Things Show (SIDO), the 
"leading" trade show for digital technology and its world.

B2B (business-to-business) professionals, their ties, fitted suits, and 
win-win plans, were greeted with speeches, improvised chants, and a host 
of serious and humorous slogans, including the following:

"Water, not fleas! STMicro SIDO, accomplice!"
In Ukraine, as in Palestine, STMicro is murdering! SIDO, accomplice!
5G, 6G, AI, SIDO wants to kill us!
Augmented human, diminished humanity! Augmented human, robotic humanity! 
Better unemployed than startupper! Better unemployed than engineer!
With AI, with STMicro and SIDO, AI no more water, AI no more nothing!
Lithium, coltan, it's child slavery, it's the ravages of our Earth!
Who wants the mine, prepares for war! Who prepares for war, wants the mine!

This rally was the culmination of a series of actions carried out in 
September in Lyon:

Distribution of the leaflet "Always less for public services, always 
more for Tech & war! Come and protest SIDO with us" during the September 
10 rally in Lyon,
Public meeting on September 13 called by the Regional Coordination 
Against Armaments and Militarism (CRAAM), Écran Total Lyon, Stop Arming 
Israel Lyon, and the Stop 5G Coordination.
Around forty people came to listen and interact with the speakers:
Stop Micro, which is fighting against the doubling of 
STMicroelectronics' production capacity in Grenoble, its pollution, and 
the digital hell that is being created;
The Observatoire des Armements and Stop Arming on the current and 
profitable (economically and technologically) Franco-Israeli military 
cooperation;
CRAAM with two presentations, one on AI and its concrete consequences in 
public services, the other on Smart Cities, which are the realms of 
global surveillance on a daily basis. A back-to-school drink hosted by 
Marco and his acerbic and poetic songs concluded the evening.
This series of activities was part of the call "Why do we support the 
defendants of June 15, 2021?"» published on June 29 by supporters of 
those accused of June 15, 2021. This text calls for "a de-escalation of 
imposed digitalization and... to open spaces in which it is possible to 
publicly criticize digital technology. We also call for organizing to 
resist digitalization. To this end, let's join the protests at digital 
technology showcases:

- SIDO (Internet of Things Exhibition) in Lyon on September 17, 2025
- SIM (Mineral Industry Exhibition) in Orléans from October 15 to 17, 2025
- Tech&Fest in Grenoble on February 4 and 5, 2026
- Vivatech in Paris from June 17 to 20, 2026.
Eugene the Jeep
Reminder on June 15, 2021

On June 15, 2021, anti-terrorism crackdowns (SDAT, GIGN, PSIG) targeted 
several people in Limousin suspected of starting fires to protest the 
deployment of the Linky meter, then 5G. The charges are: destruction and 
damage to property by explosives or fire committed by an organized gang 
(Enedis vehicles, TDF and Orange antennas), harm to the fundamental 
interests of the nation (military antenna), criminal conspiracy, and the 
creation of an inscription, sign, or drawing resulting in only minor damage.
The penalties, depending on the charges, range from 5 to 20 years' 
imprisonment and a fine of EUR75,000 to EUR225,000.
The trial is pending and will likely take place in 2026.

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