Very soon the issues of free speech , software patents , civil rights and surveillance became some of the major topics addressed by the Alliance , the group being accused of hacking and fork software . One of the BBS run by the group telnet : / / gaia.rebelalliance.net : 1800 ' Gaia rising ' , was accused by the German government of being a meeting point for radical environmental activists as well as anarchists . The Liberty Alliance was particularly active in the popular worldwide resistance to Multilateral Agreement on Investments ( MAI ) in the mid-1990s , networking multiple groups and providing " open cyberspaces " for activists to share information and experience . In the summer of 1998 the first '' alternative media centre '' was set up in a bus in Birmingham , United Kingdom during the Global Street Party , an international day of protest and festive actions coinciding with the 24th G8 Summit . The alternative media centres also provided interpretation and language services to international militant meetings , like during the July 1999 '' ' Global Carnival against Capitalism ' '' , or '' ' J18 London ' '' , a giant rally and party in the heart of the London City , meant as a counter-summit to the 25th G8 Summit in Köln , Germany . Members of the team travelled to the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle to set up an '' ' alternative media centre ' '' during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity . The project joined with that of other media activists and , out of the necessity to bypass the corporate media and report on a WTO conference but also to show how one could bypass corporate software ( Windows ) , the independent media agency Indymedia was born . Language diversity and the lack of interpreters led a number of activists to start thinking about a way to help militants from around the world to bridge the language barrier . Three years later , during the 27th G8 summit in Genoa , Italy , this would lead to the creation of the Babels network of volunteer interpreters and translators for linguistic diversity and social change
27th G8 summit
27th G8 summit
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