sudo-discuss June 2013

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by Eddan Katz

New neighbors. > From: Hub Oakland <info(a)huboakland.net> > Date: June 6, 2013, 4:37:42 PM PDT > To: <eddank(a)aya.yale.edu> > Subject: HUB Oakland's June Jump-Off! > Reply-To: Hub Oakland <info(a)huboakland.net> > > > Use this area to offer a short preview of your email's content. > View this email in your browser > > > Party People in the House! > WOW what a great party - We DID IT! Big love and gratitude to all of our backers, new members & community peeps who joined us at Era Bar & Lounge last week for our Kickstarter celebration! Y'all really know how to celebrate! Special thanks go out to Alfonso Dominguez, Kevin Best & Gary Jacques who opened up their venue to us, and the amazing staff who graciously helped us and served us! Yummy shout outs also due to: House Kombucha, Fearless Chocolate, Brilliant Elixers, and Moussa at Billy's Deli for making it all delicious! And of course, big ups to DJ Ron Tofanelli who worked us on that dancefloor!! Lastly, but never ever the least, we thank our fabulous VOLUNTEERS who expertly executed every task with beauty and grace. HUB Oakland will only continue to move forward with the continued gifts of service from our community - we love you and thank you for coming alive with us! More parties to come! > > Here We Come! > Meanwhile, we are working hard to create an amazing space for you to connect, collaborate and grow…starting with opening our doors for co-working at 1423 Broadway on June 26 (woot!). If you are one of our 73 Pop-Up members from Kickstarter, stay tuned for a communication about our member on-boarding process (and if you want to get in on the Pop-Up co-working action but didn’t go through Kickstarter -- please hang on until early July when we will know our capacity for new members, but drop us a line now to get on the waiting list). The last piece of big news is that we’ve also begun construction in our Uptown space at 2323 Broadway, so it’s all happening...! > Looking forward to seeing you soon at all the awesome events...and growing this vibrant community called HUB Oakland, together. > > > > > > Where to Find Us This Month > > Friday, June 7, 5-10pm > Assata Teach-In > Learn how and why Assata's status affects us all! > HUB Oakland > 1423 Broadway, Oakland > FREE > > Produced and curated by HUB Oakland, Betti Ono and Kin Folkz (Spectrum/Sankofa Events) and hosted by HUB co-founder Ashara Ekundayo. > > On Thursday May 2, 2013, the FBI announced that it was increasing its bounty for the capture of Assata Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron) from 1 million to 2 million dollars. The agency also included Assata on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list, the first time that a woman has ever appeared on the list. Forty years earlier, a shootout occurred on the New Jersey Turnpike, which left Assata wounded, a state trooper, Werner Foerster, and her companion, Zayd Shakur, dead. > > HUB Oakland will be live streaming the event. If you can't make it down, stay tuned for a link. > > Monday, June 10, 6pm > "Occupy Love"-The Movie, Oakland Premier > The New Parkway > 474 24th st., Oakland > $10 Tickets > > HUB Oakland and Fierce Love Films present the community screening of Occupy Love--which explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The film connects the dots in this era of rapidly evolving social change, featuring captivating insider scenes from the Egyptian Revolution, the Indignado uprising in Spain, Occupy Wall Street in New York, Indigenous activists at the Alberta Tar Sands, the climate justice movement, and beyond. > > Woven throughout the action oriented backbone of the film is a deep exploration of public love, and compelling stories of an emerging new paradigm. It features some of the world’s key visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability, and empathy, including Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Jeremy Rifkin, bell hooks and Charles Eisenstein. > > Tuesday, June 11, 6pm > Black Girls Code Film Premier & Indiegogo Party > The New Parkway > 474 24th st., Oakland > Free, RSVP Required > > Join Hub Oakland and our community partner Black Girls Code for the launch of their crowdfunding campaign to expand their Summer of CODE 2013 to bring their award-winning mobile lab to 10 new cities and reach 2,000 more girls! Plus see the documentary film on them w/ filmmaker Shanice Johnson in-person! > > Wednesday, June 12, 6-9pm > ICA's All In Party > Fox Theater > 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland > HUB Oakland members: $25 tickets with the code ICAHUB > > Inner City Advisors (ICA) All In 2013 is an epic celebration of mission-driven entrepreneurship and job creation. ICA is rallying the region's most passionate business, community and political leaders to invest in the growth of local entrepreneurs as an effective job creation strategy. The grand vision is to build a Bay Area economy that works for everybody. > > Tuesday, June 18, 5-6pm PST > Live Webcast w/David Korten: Exploring Sacred Activism > Free, Register Now > > The Pachamama Alliance in collaboration with HUB Oakland and YES! Magazine is presenting a live video conversation and book club series. > > We hope that you can join us for this rare opportunity to engage in a live interactive dialogue with one of the foremost visionaries of our time. The video conference will be moderated by HUB Oakland co-founder, CEO Konda Mason. > > To foster a deeper conversation, join the book club! Check out David Korten' s essay, Religion, Science, and Spirit: A Sacred Story of Our Time before the call. > > Make your way to HUB Oakland at 1423 Broadway to participate in a group setting for this extraordinary event! HUB Oakland will be projecting the live video conference and encouraging group dialog after the call. You can also participate in the privacy of your own home…it just won’t be as much fun! > Cultivating Inspiration & Innovation, > > Konda, Lisa, Ashara, Zakiya, Kristin, Edward, Ahmed & Jeff! > (HUB Oakland co-Founders) > > > > Copyright © 2013 HUB Oakland, All rights reserved. > Our mailing address is: > info(a)huboakland.net unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

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EFF on NSA | EFFector 26.14

by Eddan Katz

For those of you who are not signed up to receive the EFFector, you might want to consider subscribing today. > View as a web page > > > > > In our 641st issue: > > In most issues of EFFector, we give an overview of all the work we're doing at EFF right now. This week, we’re taking a deep dive into a single issue: new revelations of a massive domestic surveillance program leaked to the Guardian and Washington Post. > > > Last night, we received confirmation from a report in the Guardian that the National Security Agency (NSA) is currently collecting the call records of every Verizon customer in America. The NSA order forces Verizon to provide "on an ongoing daily basis" all call records for any call "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls” and any call made "between the United States and abroad." > > And that’s not all. Today, the Washington Post and the Guardian published reports based on information provided by a career intelligence officer showing how the NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies. The government is extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time. > > Mounting Evidence of the NSA Warrantless Surveillance > > EFF has so much evidence of the surveillance now that we've created a timeline. > > In brief, America first learned about the secret surveillance in a 2005 New York Times exposé which disclosed one aspect of the NSA’s domestic surveillance program. We learned that the Bush Administration had been illegally tapping phone lines in the U.S. without warrants or court permission immediately following the 9/11 attacks. President Bush himself admitted at least some of what the government was doing. > > In early 2006, EFF received photos and blueprints from former AT&T technician Mark Klein. These undisputed documents show that AT&T installed a fiberoptic splitter at its facility in San Francisco which sends copies of all AT&T customers’ emails, web browsing, and other Internet traffic to the NSA. > > Later in 2006, USA Today and a number of other newspapers published a story disclosing that the NSA had compiled a massive database of call records from American telecommunications companies, which included AT&T, Verizon, and Bell South. This was confirmed by a number of members of Congress. > > Information has continued to trickle out over time. In 2009, the New York Times reported the NSA was still collecting purely domestic communications in a "significant and systematic" way after the FISA Amendments Act was passed in 2008. > > Section 215 of the Patriot Act and Verizon > > The news of the last few days has confirmed the records portion of the surveillance, and gave us some additional hints about the government’s arguments in support of its actions. The secret court order issued to Verizon was a Section 215 order (50 U.S.C. sec. 1861), a controversial legal instrument greatly expanded when George Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law on October 26, 2001. It allows the government to seek "any tangible things" in connection with an authorized investigation and is often known as the "business records" provision of FISA. > > > Section 215 allows for secret court orders to records that are "relevant" to a government investigation – a far lower threshold and more expansive reach than a warrant based on probable cause. The list of possible "tangible things" the government can obtain is seemingly limitless, and could include everything from driver’s license records to Internet browsing history. > > We've long suspected that the government has been using Section 215 to conduct dragnet surveillance. Now we have incontrovertible evidence. Senator Ron Wyden has warned that "when the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry." > > Senator Wyden is right. > > What EFF is Doing > > First of all, we're leading the charge to stop the NSA’s domestic surveillance program in the courts. Since 2006, EFF has challenged the NSA surveillance in two landmark lawsuits, Hepting v. AT&T and Jewel v. NSA. These cases, in which we represent AT&T customers, include both the wiretapping claims arising from the fiberoptic splitter that Mark Klein found and the scooping up of communications records referred to in the Verizon order. We also have fought back against other PATRIOT Act surveillance abuses, including bringing a case that resulted in National Security Letters being declared unconstitutional -- which is currently on appeal to the Ninth Circuit. > > We’re also fighting for transparency. In 2011, we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records about the government’s secret interpretation of Section 215. Last week we submitted a brief to the secret FISA court itself in that case. > > And we're pushing for legislative reform. We've organized tens of thousands of concerned citizens to speak out against the surveillance powers in the PATRIOT Act and the FISA Amendments Act, and now we’re calling on the public to demand a full, public accounting of the government's surveillance programs. > > Join the Fight > > We're asking individuals to email Congress right away to tell them in the strongest possible terms that you do not consent to dragnet domestic surveillance. Tell your elected officials that you object to this mass domestic spying program. Demand that they initiate a full-scale, public investigation immediately with the results of the investigation made public as much as possible. Demand that the public officials responsible for this program are held to account. Click here to speak out now. > > > > And we’re also asking individuals to support our work. Become an EFF member today and join the fight to defend fundamental liberties in the digital world. > > Learn more > > NSA Spying Overview > > Timeline of NSA Spying > > Frequently Asked Questions > > State Secrets Privilege > > Washington Post story on Internet surveillance > > Guardian story on Internet surveillance > > Guardian story on phone record surveillance > > Supported by Members > > Our members make it possible for EFF to bring legal and technological expertise into crucial battles about online rights. 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13 years

Hacktivists For Science!

by Lisha Sterling

Hi Sodoers! “Hacktivism is a form of political activism, also referred to as being part of cyberactivism. It is a hybrid expression linking both hacking and activism, whereby hacktivists make use of the internet ... Political hackers are thereby trying to achieve a certain political and societal change, shift, statement, or behaviour by using technical mechanisms against e.g., political parties, governments, organisations, etc. by using this technological tools." There is a young lady named Leonie who lives in Belfast and is working on her Master's Thesis at Queen's University there who would like to talk to some hacktivists to help her understand what hacktivists are, what we do, and how we see ourselves versus how people outside our group see us. This is good research IMO because it helps break down the images of "hacktivism" as being about destruction of websites and DDoS attacks -- concepts that were part of her initial working definition of "hacktivist" when she applied for her human subjects permit a year ago. When I think of "Hacktivism" I think of many people, but I ESPECIALLY think of sudoroom. You guys are super activists in all the ways that I hold dear, so I hope that some of you will reach out to Leonie and take part in her research. You can reach her at Leonie Tanczer <ltanczer01(a)qub.ac.uk>. If you wish to send her encrypted email, her public key is posted on http://pgp.mit.eduand the fingerprint that I have for her in my own keychain is 3AA3 3037 6DF0 A649 63BC FB22 3417 15C5 FF72 36C2 - Lisha PS I miss you guys! -- http://www.alwayssababa.com/

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NSA: All your calls belong to us

by Eddan Katz

The NSA has obtained an FISC order to have Verizon turn over phone data records on all customers until July 19th. Here's the court order: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-d… The gist of it from EFF Deeplinks post (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-america…) In a report by Glenn Greenwald, the paper published an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (or FISC) that directs Verizon to provide “on an ongoing daily basis” all call records for any call “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls” and any call made “between the United States and abroad.” In plain language: the order gave the NSA a record of everyVerizon customer’s call history -- every call made, the location of the phone, the time of the call, the duration of the call, and other “identifying information” for the phone and call -- from April 25, 2013 (the date the order was issued) to July 19, 2013. The order does not require content or the name of any subscriber and is issued under 50 USC sec.1861, also known as section 215 of the Patriot Act.

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Meeting Tonight at 7PM: Add to Agenda

by Marina Kukso

Hi everyone, Trying another refinement of the agenda that is hopefully clearer than last time (for those who were there last time, there was confusion about discussion vs action items, so I've separated it out a bit. I've also brought forward items from last week, so if they are resolved, let's delete them. Please feel edit, remove, and add things!). Agenda is here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudoroommeeting I am not at the space right now, so can't coordinate dinner, but there should be dinner stuffs in the fridge! - Marina

13 years

Outreach Media

by Ryan

Hey all, Curly here. I remember there being a brief discussion around outreach scripts and things some weeks back, but dunno where it went. I want to re-open the topic. With logo work coming to a close (see presentation today, and vote!) I am ready to start working on an outreach piece again. Specifically, I want to compose something that speaks to the big vision for the group, and hopefully even think of how to storyboard that in print or film media. I don't think we can ever talk about our mission too much, since it's such an exquisite thing. I got inspired by this short film <http://vimeo.com/66839079> about a Detroit hackerspace. It's not a crowdfunding thing, but it could be. Most importantly, it brushes the dust off our image of Detroit's greatness, and reconnects its precarious future to its mighty emergence as a city of makers. I think we can do this as well for Oakland, especially with a good camera...

13 years

Fwd: Demo Night, (this) First Friday! (6/7)

by Jenny Ryan

substack had suggested we have a demo night, in the european tradition. an informal show-and-tell. do tell! let's share what we've all been up to, and drink the most recent (and best yet!) subiir<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Subiir>(actually on v.5.0)! for anyone who'd like to demo, please shoot me an email and we can all meet up, potluck and plan from 6-6:30 *Friday the 7th, 7-10pm* *There will be projector *There will be pews *Informal and super-high [low]pressure to [high]fun ratio **Get good shut-eye for the rad “*Today I Learned: Infographics: Convince with Pictures*<https://sudoroom.org/sat-june-8th-today-i-learned-infographics-convince-wit…>” workshop on Saturday at 2pm! Hack the planet! Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

13 years

Kids reading original narratives at radio.sudoroom.org ^_^

by Marina Kukso

this is all. - marina

13 years

Fwd: [spaghettinight] HoeDown Hootenanny An Urban Barndance Benefit for PLACE - Sat June 8th - 7:00pm - Midnight

by Marina Kukso

FYI! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Youtt <jyoutt(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:57 PM Subject: [spaghettinight] HoeDown Hootenanny An Urban Barndance Benefit for PLACE - Sat June 8th - 7:00pm - Midnight To: spaghettinight(a)tentacle.net * Greetings folks, If you have not had a chance to see PLACE for Sustainable Living, you should consider coming on out this Saturday to support Oakland's very own collectively managed center for teaching urban sustainability. We look forward to sharing a meal with you in the future, but for now you can enjoy some cob oven pizza and some great bluegrass music. In community, Jonathan Saturday June 8th HoeDown Hootenanny An Urban Barndance Benefit for PLACE 7:00pm - Midnight Come throw down at our hoedown, a monthly benefit for PLACE happening EVERY 2nd Saturday. We feature local bluegrass, old time appalachian, hillbilly, and jugband sounds! Always great music, a firepit, and home-made cob-oven pizzas. Bring your friends and your dancin' shoes (or stompin' feet)—good times are 100% guaranteed. https://www.facebook.com/events/488145597925169/ Featuring: Canyon Johnson Canyon Johnson is a dynamic bluegrass band based in the San Francisco Bay Area, drawing from the rich traditions and timeless themes of the music's founders while making it fresh and relevant to the present with intricate arrangements, soulful harmonies, and tasteful picking.From the hard driving tunes of Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers and Red Allen to the poignant songs of Hazel Dickens and the enchanting melodies of traditional fiddle tunes, Canyon Johnson will get your feet tapping and put a smile on your face. http://canyonjohnson.org/ http://facebook.com/canyonjohnson.org <http://facebook.com/canyonjohnson.org> Beauty Operators San Francisco string band playing bluegrass, alt-grass, punk-grass, cry-in-your-beer-grass & the occasional 80s cover. Laid-back & fun with a front-porch kind of sound. High-lonesome harmonies mixed with original musings about modern life in San Francisco. https://www.facebook.com/BeautyOperators http://www.youtube.com/thebeautyoperators<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fthebeautyope…> <http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fthebeautyope…> Joshua Lowe and the Juncos Moving from traditional bluegrass into the world of “acoustic” music, The Juncos originally began as a duo with Josh Stacy (cello, guitar, and voice) swapping the singing and songwriting duties back and forth with Lowe. As time passed Stacy went his own way, focusing more on looping and experimental cello radness, while Lowe stayed true to the acoustic roots music feel. Over the years, “the flock” as Joshua calls it, has matured into a well-seasoned and amazingly talented group of musicians (see below). Regardless of the lineup on any given night, Joshua Lowe and The Juncos’ sound is steeped in American roots music. www.joshualowemusic.com<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joshualowemusic.com&h=lAQE…> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joshua-Lowe-and-The-Juncos/134637685384 * _______________________________________________ spaghettinight mailing list spaghettinight(a)tentacle.net Rabbit administers this list; email them at rabbitface(a)gmail.com if you have questions To unsubscribe send an email to spaghettinight-leave(a)tentacle.net https://tentacle.net/mailman/listinfo/spaghettinight

13 years

Sudo Kids tonight in the radio room :)

by Marina Kukso

Hi all, We are reconvening our kids' DJ show this evening, so drop by if you enjoy hanging out with kids, have kids you want to bring by, etc etc etc. if you can't make it, tune in sometime after 6PM at radio.sudoroom.org! :) - marina

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