Symbiosis magazine

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Contents 1 Mandate & Objectives 2 On Originality 3 Geographic Location and Community Served 4 Brief History

[edit] Mandate & Objectives

Symbiosis magazine is an Open Expression Public Domain publication. All submissions to Symbiosis magazine must be given without restrictions, in the spirit of sharing and intellectual freedom.

[edit] On Originality

As stated in the DRAFT XI of Idiosyntactix Incidentalist Manifestos (http://symbio.trick.ca/HomeQuirkIncidentalistManifestos)

All words, colours, shapes, movements, sounds and all other forms of expressions belong to all that have perceived them or wish to express them. All expressions are extensions of previous perceptions. Even if an expression is intentionally duplicated, it will always be affected and changed by the new incident of expression. Even if an expression is purposefully unique, the artifacts of the incident and previous perceptions will always be present. While no expression can ever be exactly repeated, neither can any expression be completely new.

   * WHEREAS, all expressions are both original and derivative,
   * SO THEREFORE any attempt to claim ideas, knowledge or techniques as property is fraud. 

Symbiosis magazine is a publication of Open Expression content that is released to the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Share Alike License (http://symbio.trick.ca/CreativeCommonsShareAlikeLicenseLegalCode).

You are free:

   * to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
   * to make derivative works
   * to make commercial use of the work 

Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.

[edit] Geographic Location and Community Served

Symbiosis magazine is based in downtown Toronto, Ontario and serves the downtown Toronto community. Affiliate distribution (thus far) extends to: Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and western Europe. It is also being promoted worldwide via the internet: http://symbio.trick.ca/

[edit] Brief History

Symbiosis magazine was founded by Alexander Braun (sasha) in July 2002, while participating in the POPE SQUAT (1510 King St. W., Toronto) from July 25 to November 01, 2002. The Pope Squat is a direct housing action that was organized by OCAP (Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) and coincided with during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Toronto. The Pope Squat housed over fifty homeless and marginalized persons in a previously abandoned and neglected building under the jurisdiction of the Province of Ontario. Renovated by collective effort, with help from the local community and labour unions. On November 01, 2002, after operating for three months, with the first snowfall of the season, Toronto Metropolitan Police raided the Pope Squat and, using the pretense of fire safety irregularities, brought this housing initiative to an end. All this in spite of massive media attention and a great outpouring of support from individuals and collective organizations around the world.