Re: [Mesh] PLEASE RESPOND for 2018 Grant from the People’s Life Fund

w00t! this is for the grant app <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bv5qjzsAPexpmIAEUj_ddQe50nsHUz9jy4paAxfjbWE> I wrote up last month to the People's Life Fund (No War Tax Grant) for funding a combo-project of disaster.radio, the laptops project, the hackpack project and the BYOI workshops. please reply here if you'd be interested in helping to facilitate a workshop on digital literacy, digital security, hardware and/or electronics hacking - a component of the hackpack project <http://hackpack.me> juul and i initiated some years ago to distribute backpacks with all the basic tools and equipment one needs to hack the planet ^_^ it's be great if we could have an equal number of participants and instructors / helpers! additionally, our check from Mozilla finally arrived!! let's order some gear :D -- Jenny Ryan People's Open Network <https://peoplesopen.net> *Building a community-owned and -operated wireless network in Oakland, California!* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martha Cain &lt;mcain7(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; Date: Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 7:11 PM Subject: PLEASE RESPOND for 2018 Grant from the People’s Life Fund To: &quot;jenny(a)peoplesopen.net&quot; &lt;jenny(a)peoplesopen.net&gt; On Sunday, April 1, 2018 11:38 AM, Jonathon Marley < marley(a)stanfordalumni.org&gt; wrote: Dear Jenny, The People's Life Fund (PLF) is pleased to award Sudo Mesh a grant of $2,500 for your work in 2018. We request the honor of your presence at the PLF Granting Event on Sunday, April 15 (details below) to receive your check. One of our priorities is to fund groups that include in their leadership the people impacted by the work of the organization. Thus, we invite you to bring participants to help receive your organization’s grant award. Please *Reply All to this email by April 9* to confirm that your group will accept this grant and to let us know the name(s) of the person(s) who will attend to receive the check on behalf of your organization. We would like them to make a one-minute statement about the project for which the grant will be used. *When:* Sunday night, April 15, 2018 6:00-6:30 Potluck (please bring something to share) 6:30-8:00 Granting ceremony 8:00-8:30 Dessert & Networking *Where:* Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA <https://maps.google.com/?q=1924+Cedar+Street,+Berkeley,+CA&entry=gmail&source=g> (eight blocks from North Berkeley BART station) The People’s Life Fund is a project of Northern California War Tax Resistance. The funds for PLF grants come from interest earned on a pool of income tax dollars that activists refuse to pay to the federal government because they cannot in good conscience support the government’s use of these taxes for military purposes. Instead they choose to re-direct them to community organizations through the PLF. We encourage you to spread the word that war tax resistance is happening in the U.S. and that the dollars not paid to the IRS are being used positively by groups like yours to promote social justice and peace, for the health of the planet, and to move our world toward a new sharing economy. Specifically, we request that Sudo Mesh lists us among its funders as: “War Taxes Redirected by the People’s Life Fund.” Finally, *we would greatly appreciate hearing from you no later than December 1, 2018* regarding how your project is progressing. Please send us a short report – no longer than one page, please! – describing how the funds were used and what impact they have made on the work you do. Feel free to call or email with any questions you might have. We appreciate your commitment to justice and peace and thank you for giving us the opportunity to support your valuable work. Kind regards, Jon Marley People's Life Fund P.O. Box 2422 Berkeley, CA 94702 (510) 842-6124 NoWarTax(a)riseup.net