sudo-discuss March 2014

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by Danny Spitzberg

Friends, I have an intention to install a sunset panorama camera up near the Lawrence Hall of Science that would post a handful of photographs every evening to the www. Ideally, this woul couple with an interactive element, such as a disclaimer that says this is not what the sunset actually looks like - and perhaps a filter that enhances the photos to get closer to real-vision. Anyone have any input or feedback on this public gimmick initiative?

10 years, 9 months

Fwd: [sfchalkboard] Actors & Extras Needed Monday: Anti-DAC Skit!

by Vicky Knox

8] If you're interested I can send you this person's contact. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ... Date: 2014-03-01 11:58 GMT-08:00 Subject: [sfchalkboard] Actors & Extras Needed Monday: Anti-DAC Skit! To: sfchalkboard <sfchalkboard(a)lists.riseup.net> Hi Folks! We have recently launched our production company and blog, Aberrant Films. The goal of Aberrant Films is to raise awareness about social issues in an entertaining way. The blog will include both articles/journalistic pieces on things happening in our community, and entertaining fiction, videos and short films with powerful messages inspired by things happening in our community and culture. We've recently been getting involved in the fight against the Domain Awareness Center that the Dept. of Homeland Security is trying to build in Oakland. If we don't speak up, it could end up being a city-wide surveillance hub which has 24/7 surveillance on Oakland and surrounding areas. There are so many things wrong with the DAC and what it could mean for the privacy rights of everyone in the Bay Area. We recently attended a meeting at Oakland City Hall, which was officially the one chance for the public to voice their concerns and opinions about a privacy policy for the Domain Awareness Center, and to get questions answered. The meeting itself was honestly quite comical, in terms of how obvious it was that no one with any decision power was listening to us and the answer to every single question was a very upbeat "I don't know." *There were many very tragic yet funny elements about the meeting, and we'd like to shoot a comedic skit which both makes fun of the way that meeting was handled, and raises important questions about the DAC that people should be asking.* For more info on the DAC, here are some links: http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center http://publicintelligence.net/tag/domain-awareness-center/ http://occupyoakland.org/ai1ec_event/dont-sell-people-oakland-dept-homeland… The big vote and protest on the DAC is on Tuesday the 4th and we'd like to get this skit out by then. *We will be shooting the skit on Monday (3/3), 12pm-4pm near 18th and Mission in San Francisco. We unfortunately cannot offer pay for this project, but it's going to be a lot of fun, for a great cause that affects our community, and a lot of people are going to see it.* *The roles we need to cast are:* *-- The Moderator: An upbeat good-looking middle-aged man with a gameshow host attitude and absolutely no knowledge or decision power on the DAC. Must have a suit and tie.* *-- Two more City Council Members: Both men, middle-aged, serious looking, did very little talking aside from the occasional "we don't know" and hid in the shadows of the audience. Preferably one latin and one black as it was at the real meeting. Very few lines if any, but plenty of screen time. Must have a suit and tie.* *-- Five Anti-DAC Speakers: Largely members of Occupy Oakland, regular citizens, protestors, etc. who spoke in opposition of the DAC. Each speaker will get several lines. Casual or semi-professional wear.* *-- 10+ Anti-DAC Audience Members: Anti-DAC people who attended the meeting but do not speak in the skit. Casual or semi-professional wear.* If you're available and interested, please contact me and we'll give you more details. And if you know anyone else who might be interested, whether they would like to play a role or just be an audience member, please send them our way. Thanks! Sincerely, ... Aberrant Films

10 years, 9 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] [Food Crisis] Planned food safety rules rile organic farmers

by Eddie Che

Fuck.... seriously? On 3/2/14, Rudy Arredondo <hola_5(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Planned food safety rules rile organic farmersLocal growers are discovering > that proposed FDA regulations would > curtail many common techniques, such as using house-made fertilizers and > irrigating from creeks. > http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-food-safety-20140223,0,6831660.story#ix… > > > > > > HUSTONTOWN, Pa. -- Jim > Crawford was rushing to load crates of freshly picked organic tomatoes > onto trucks heading for an urban farmers market when he noticed the > federal agent. > > > A tense conversation followed as > the visitor to his farm -- an inspector from the Food and Drug > Administration -- warned him that some organic-growing techniques he had > honed over four decades could soon be outlawed. > > "This is my badge. These are the fines. This is what is hanging over > your head, and we want you to know that," Crawford says the official > told him. > > > > > Crawford's popular farm may > seem a curious place for the FDA to move ahead with a long-planned > federal assault on deadly food poisoning. To Crawford's knowledge, none > of the kohlrabi, fennel, sugar snap peas or other crops from his New Morning > Farm have ever sickened anyone. But he is not the only organic grower to > suddenly discover federal inspectors on his land. > > In 2010, after a years-long campaign, food-safety activists persuaded > Congress to give the FDA authority to regulate farm practices. > The next year, an outbreak of food poisoning that killed 33 people who > ate tainted cantaloupes put pressure on the FDA to be aggressive. > > Now, farmers are discovering that the FDA's proposed rules would > curtail many techniques that are common among organic growers, including > spreading house-made fertilizers, tilling cropland with grazing > animals, and irrigating from open creeks. > > Suddenly, from small family operations nestled in the foothills of > Appalachia to the sophisticated organic-grower networks that serve Los > Angeles and San Francisco, the farms that celebrity chefs and > food-conscious consumers jostle to buy from are facing an unexpected > adversary. > > They're fighting back. Even though full enforcement of the rules is > still years away, they are warning customers that some farms would have > to close. > > "They are going to drive farms out of business," said Dave Runsten, policy > director for Community Alliance with Family Farmers in Davis, Calif. > > "The consumer groups behind this don't understand farming," Runsten > says. "They talk out of both sides of their mouth. They demand these > one-size-fits-all regulations, then say, 'I don't want to hurt those > cute little farmers at the farmers market. I shop at the farmers > market.' It is frustrating." > > Many farmers who take part in the locally grown food movement argue > that contamination is a problem of industrial-sized farms and that some > of the practices the FDA might ban actually make consumers safer. > > Food safety advocates have urged regulators to hang tough. "We don't > believe large facilities are the only place where outbreaks are > happening," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the Center > for Science in the Public Interest in Washington. Farm-to-fork growers, she > said, need to accept that emerging strains of E. coli > and other bacteria can just as easily seep into the produce sold at a > farmers market as into the batches of salad bagged at giant processing > plants, and they need to tweak their methods to protect against it. > > "At the end of the day, consumers will be paying a little bit more > for this. But a few cents here may help avoid a severe illness," Smith > DeWaal says. > > Congress passed the landmark Food Safety Modernization Act amid > alarming reports from public health agencies about widespread food > contamination. Tens of millions of consumers are sickened by tainted > food each year, and some 3,000 die annually as a result, according to the > Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. > > Parents of children who died from drinking contaminated juice or > eating unsafe spinach rallied lawmakers with horrifying stories. > Concerns about bioterrorism also played a role. The new rules are meant, > in part, to make the nation's food supply less susceptible to > tampering. > > The century-old FDA has ample experience breaking up unsafe > pharmaceutical factories and food processors but is still finding its > way around family farms. At a recent congressional hearing, Rep. Marsha > Blackburn (R-Tenn.) seized on one draft set of rules in which the FDA > declared kale is "never consumed raw." > > "I was going to offer to make a kale salad for you," she said to > Michael Taylor, a deputy commissioner. "It causes you to wonder if those > who are writing these rules have ever set foot on a farm." > > Over the summer, the owner of the last working farm in Akron, Ohio, > which had been supplying produce to locals for 117 years, said he was > throwing in the towel and blamed the FDA's new rules. Don Bessemer > told the Akron Beacon Journal that he was up for fighting pests and > even drought, but not bureaucrats. Thirty workers lost jobs. > > Federal regulators have been scrambling to find the right balance > ever since the draft rules set off controversy. The FDA has backed away > from some of its positions, and Taylor points out that thousands of the > smallest farms would be exempt from new inspections under an agreement > negotiated in Congress. > > "This is the first time that the FDA will have regulated produce safety on > the farm," he said in an interview. > > "It is understandable people have concerns and questions," he added. "We > have learned a lot during this last year." > > Regulators have been poring over comments from some 20,000 groups and > individuals. On listening tours at farms, they have gotten an earful > from growers such as Judith Redmond, one of the owners of the 350-acre Full > Belly Farm > in the scenic Capay Valley northwest of Sacramento. Redmond says she is > bewildered by proposed restrictions on compost that could make it > impossible to use on some crops. > > "We think they should be encouraging people to use compost," she > said. "To consider it dangerous or potentially harboring pathogens is > the wrong message to be sending." > > While the FDA is striking a conciliatory tone, protest is sure to > follow when revised rules emerge this summer. That much is clear just > from listening to both sides on issues as esoteric as how long farmers > should be required to leave manure in a compost pile. > > Farmers say they simply don't have the facilities to do what food-safety > groups are demanding. > > Crawford, for example, fertilizes his farm with manure made from the > waste of his 300 chickens. Composting it for as long a period as the > draft FDA rules require would be impossible, he says. > > He worries, too, about rules requiring him to keep animals away from the > crops. > > The Center for Science in the Public Interest will be pushing the FDA not to > yield. > > "Necessity is the mother of invention," Smith DeWaal said. "Why not > create a cooperative whose sole job it is to truck this stuff to a > composting facility and truck it back? It's an expense, but way better > than the unexpected expense of a major recall and implications to your > farm if an outbreak is traced to your product. There are costs either > way." > > That might make sense to Crawford, the farmer, if he saw convincing > evidence the manure he is using is dangerous. But he hasn't. What he > sees is an added expense that will give another reason for farmers > operating on the margins to call it quits. > > "The public loves to love and idealize us little family farmers," he > said. "But the vast majority of us are hanging by a thread. Now, the > government is saying, 'We are going to put a lot more weight on that > thread.'" > > evan.halper(a)latimes.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-food-safety-20140223,0,6831660.story#ix… > > > The National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association > 717 D Street, NW, Suite 400 > Washington, DC 20004 > 202-628-8833-General > 202-628-1440-Direct > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Food Crisis" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to food_crisis+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to food_crisis(a)googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/food_crisis. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Eddie Miller, BU '10 eddiemill(a)gmail.com | 440-935-5434 Facebook.com/eddiemill | Twitter.com/eddiemill

10 years, 9 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] TONIGHT: Counter Culture Labs vs Sudo Room: No Competition!

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

I would typically love to participate, but will be attending a prior engagement listed on the sudo room calendar: the 1 year anniversary of VolxKuche (VoKuSF), a free dinner with entertainment, "peoples kitchen" project. https://sudoroom.org/calendar Perhaps we can gather again next month? // Matt ----- Reply message ----- From: "ahnon" <ahnon(a)ahnon.org> To: "cclabs" <counterculturelabs(a)googlegroups.com>, <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] TONIGHT: Counter Culture Labs vs Sudo Room: No Competition! Date: Fri, Feb 28, 2014 14:04 Tonight Friday February 28 7:00 PM Telegraph Beer Garden (which also has kombucha and coffee) 2318 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA Biohackers and hackers getting along splendidly and making things peacefully whilst sipping kombucha. Let's put an end to February with circuits and enzymes! Open to all - stop in and say hello, bend our ears with your latest idea, or just drink coffe and circuit hack a furby!

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