<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi folks,<br><br>Just wanted to remind you that this event is tomorrow! If you're interested in learning more about privacy issues and/or are interested in helping folks secure your devices, you should come!<br><br></div>- Marina<br><div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sonnie, Amy</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ASonnie@oaklandlibrary.org">ASonnie@oaklandlibrary.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:41 PM<br>Subject: Know Your Digital Rights - Community Workshop - Dec 13<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon">*Share Widely - Flyer Attached*</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><h1><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Know Your Digital Rights: Fairness, Access and Privacy Online </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></h1><p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal">Saturday, December 13, 2014</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal"><br></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal">from 12-3pm</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal;font-weight:normal">Where: </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal"><br>81st Avenue Branch – Oakland Public Library</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal"><br></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal">1021 81st Avenue (at Rudsdale)<br><span>Oakland - FREE</span><br><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Internet is great because it belongs to all of us equally. It's a level playing field -- whether you want to promote your music, apply for a job, play a game or start a business. But that could soon change.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The web as we know it today is founded on the principle of </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">'Net Neutrality</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">:' The idea that "content" should be given the same priority no matter who it's coming from and who it's going to. Policymakers in the U.S. are currently considering whether or not to adopt rules that protect Net Neutrality. Millions of people asked them to. Even President Obama (<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/net-neutrality" target="_blank">http://www.whitehouse.gov/net-neutrality</a>).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Come learn more about your digital rights and what Net Neutrality means for you – and actions you can take!</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">* Speakers *</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal">We will have </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal">speakers from really cool organizations</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal"> who can talk about these issues and their impact.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal">MALKIA CYRIL</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> is founder and director of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) at the Center for Media Justice. For more than a decade MAG-Net's 175 member groups have worked together to expand media access and rights for marginalized communities. <a href="https://oaklegacymail.oaklandnet.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://mag-net.org/" target="_blank">http://mag-net.org/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal">JEREMY GILLULA</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> is a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he focuses on privacy and civil liberties issues arising from new and existing technologies. <a href="https://www.eff.org/" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:10.0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