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Fw: [oaklandprivacyworkinggroup] Activists are poised to sue Oakland over creepy spy center

by eddan.com

For wide distribution. On Monday, January 27, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Miguel Vargas wrote: > This is the press release that just went out. Brian is delivering the Cease and Desist letter to city hall personally this morning. > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Miguel Vargas <unroar(a)gmail.com (mailto:unroar@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > Oakland Privacy Group Press Release > > Contact: Brian Hofer > > Cell: (510) 303-2871 (tel:%28510%29%20303-2871) > > Email: brian.hofer(a)gmail.com (mailto:brian.hofer@gmail.com) > > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > ACTIVISTS POISED TO SUE CITY OVER CREEPY SPY CENTER’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS CONTRACTORS > > > > The Oakland Privacy Group today demanded through counsel that Oakland city government immediately Cease and Desist building the Domain Awareness Center and stop working with military contractors in violation of Oakland’s Nuclear Free Zone ordinance or face a lawsuit. > > > > City staff is currently urging city council to move forward with building the DAC by signing a contract with military contractor Schneider Electric. Signing such a contract would be a clear violation of Oakland’s Nuclear Free Zone ordinance.The council's next vote on this issue is on Tuesday, January 28. > > > > In their recommendation, city staff states that they are satisfied that Schneider Electric is not in violation of the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance based on their Google searches. Yet it is hard to believe that city staff missed the many webpages where Schneider markets their nuclear weapons experience. For example, Schneider states on their Naval Technology page (http://www.naval-technology.com/contractors/electrical/schneider-energy/%20) http://www.naval-technology.com/contractors/electrical/schneider-energy/ > > > > Our main application domains include: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Weapon launching control system for nuclear submarines > > > Nuclear weapon handling system > > Oakland has a long tradition of taking strong progressive stands on national issues with legislation such as South African divestment, establishing the City of Refuge (anti-ICE raids), leadership on cannabis normalization, standing against Arizona’s racist anti-immigrant law, and many others. > > > > It is from this proud tradition that the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance originates. Oakland has for decades declared that it will in no way be complicit in building nuclear weapons and has refused to work with any nuclear weapons contractors. > > > > These are Oakland values. > > > > Unfortunately, it seems that our current crop of city leaders do not share these values. > > > > Since the beginning of the DAC project city staff has been looking for ways to use nuclear weapons contractors to build their vision of an all-knowing Orwellian surveillance apparatus. > > > > The city’s first contractor to work on the DAC, military giant SAIC, was removed from the contract after it’s work on nuclear weapons became public. SAIC also perjured themselves by signing a statement that they did not violate the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance. But public records request documents indicate that city staff knew all along that SAIC was in violation of the ordinance. When they were found out staff were searching for ways to help SAIC bypass the ordinance, they then helped SAIC finish building a major phase of the DAC project and paid them the full $2.6 million for their illegal work before the contract was ended. > > > > The Oakland Privacy Group believes city staff are attempting similar maneuvers with Schneider Electric to get the spy center completed in violation of the Nuclear Free Zone ordinance. > > > > If the city moves forward with these plans legal action will be taken to stop it. > > > > About the Oakland Privacy Working Group > > The Oakland Privacy Group is a grassroots community organization concerned with the encroaching threat of high-tech surveillance. It has been organizing the swelling grassroots opposition to the DAC since the issue was first noticed at a city council meeting in July of 2013. They have an online presence Twitter @OaklandPrivacy and at http://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com/ > > > > About the DAC > > > > The DAC is a multi-million dollar data and video spy center funded with federal anti-terrorism dollars originally intended for the port but then turned against the residents of Oakland. The most comprehensive information on the DAC is available on Oakland Wiki at http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center > > > > > > > > > >

12 years, 2 months

Mayoral Candidate exploratory committee (Invite only)

by Shake Anderson

Morning Sudo Room, Shake Anderson (invite only) Mayoral Candidate exploratory committee meeting tonite at 6pm @ Uptown Studio 1738 Telegragh Ave. Oakland,Ca ...pls come -- Shake Anderson OMY Enterprises 510.221.7609510.221.7609510.221.7609510.221.7609 Omy.ent(a)gmail.com

12 years, 2 months

sudoroom projector during meetings: bringing the world to SudoRoom

by Romy Ilano

Hey I had an idea... during meetings, when not using the projector for powerpoint-y stuff, why not project walk throughs and non-narrated videos from around the world? Especially anything non narrated, with atmospheric sound It would be a way to bring the world "Closer to SudoRoom" and realize we are part of a larger orange besides the orange slice we currently live on Stuff is blowing up in Ukraine and Cambodia right now: - a walk through Guadalajara City in mexico during one of their bike days - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZlr8dTcu8&feature=share&list=PLIXYZQ--adya… - riot police put down a peaceful protest - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHCNuyCYiX0 - uncommented walk through other hackerspaces in New York, Berlin, the world... What do you think? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

12 years, 2 months

gnucash review

by J Clark

I saw that you're looking at bookkeeping software, including Gnucash. I've been using it for a good couple+ years and wanted to offer my thoughts. I love it generally. Pretty easy to use double-entry system, kind of like Quicken. Make sure you have your accounts set up to match your tax and reporting requirements, and so that anyone putting entries in will understand which account includes what kind of expenses. Easy to reconcile with bank statements. It's not a "connect to my bank" kind of system like Quicken used to be (and may still be) to update your account and reconcile all at once, but if you keep up with your entries, end of month is a breeze. Nice reporting once you figure out what you need to know and which menu choice does it. It's apparently really easy to screw things up and not notice. By the end of every year I have had to go back and re-balance at least one or two of my bank statements because some transaction disappeared somewhere and balancing against a statement becomes a problem (tho' prior balances have worked out fine). Because of that last point, I'm considering another option this year. j.

12 years, 2 months

super focus club

by Romy Ilano

well my point wasn't that I would come to SudoRoom and do only working and not talk to anyone. I would like to have a super focus area so that we could isolate ourselves for short bursts, then come back like half-naked pearl divers coming up for air out of the ocean, our diving knives in our teeth, so that during breaks we could flop around and relax supine on the couches, just as divers would half-naked in the bright sun... before diving down into the depths again, the depths of hyperfocus, clad only in loinclothes, searching for pearls of wisdom. >> Message: 8 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:13:56 -0800 From: Max Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com>1" I've come to accept that this is not possible at sudo. I tried the "I'm busy" sombrero, and the corner. Sometimes the problem is that I distract myself too. But I still want focus. Super focus, without the anonymity or expense of the coffee shop, and the separation from my house. The way I imagined the happening was renting one of the other rooms next to sudo and making "SUPER FOCUS CLUB". It'd be very minimally run, and cost to go in (I think paying for it would also help bring ones self to superfocus). So it'd be a spartan "coworking" space, which you can have as premium feature to sudo's freemium model. I kind of was thinking about trying this out for a month starting in April when I also plan to quit my job and shake my life like a purse and I was looking for keys. -notconfusing ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

12 years, 2 months

Sudo room trailer

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Hey all, Thanks to Mackenzie and her housemate, sudo room has a new trailer, already tagged and ready to roll. The hitch attaches to your rear triangle, near the rear wheel dropout, should fit on most bikes, even with some crud in the way. Please bring it back, don't leave it out or at your house, it's an invaluable resource for everyone to share. // Matt

12 years, 2 months

media / outreach contacts?

by David Keenan

Im trying get ahold of existing media / political group contact lists to build Oakland Privacy Working Group's for our outreach purposes. Does sudo have, or know anyone sympathetic who has, such a list? Ie, mainstream and alternative print, tv, radio contacts, as well as at unions, leagues, or other political groups like democratic committes/clubs, etc? Such a lost could help sudo and baps' outreach as well - Sort of a compressed timeframe, so any help is hugely appreciated. Best, David

12 years, 2 months

Regarding the event on Egypt Friday

by tahmina mahrzad

Hi there, This is Shimaa again, I haven't heard from anybody since I communicated with you. Can you please get back to me? The event is Friday and I want to make sure you're still on. I invited people already and spread the word out about it. You can also give me a call on my cell phone: 917-615-8899 Shimaa https://www.facebook.com/events/424246587705844/

12 years, 2 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Quiet work area

by David Keenan

concur - -d On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote: > concur - > -d > > On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Gregg Horton <greggahorton(a)gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'greggahorton(a)gmail.com');>> > wrote: > >> This >> On Jan 22, 2014 10:03 AM, "Romy Snowyla" <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote: >> >>> Did anyone start a quiet work area at SudoRoom? This is ideally a table >>> where people can focus, not be interrupted, or people near this area would >>> be mindful & not talk too loudly. >>> >>> I think I witnessed something like this one afternoon. >>> >>> Noisebridge has a similar set up.. I like it a lot, >>> >>> I'd like to go to sudoroom and have a small mindful area free of >>> people's phone conversations, or be interrupted by someone pitching their >>> political movement or solar energy start up. >>> >>> (I've been interrupted constantly in the past this way and this is a >>> constructive idea to solve that problem) >>> >>> To the folks who had a quiet mindfulness area: could we do this again? >>> It's a good idea and in alignment with sudoroom values;: "a hackerspace is >>> for hacking " >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> _______________________________________________ >>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>> >>

12 years, 2 months

Meeting Minutes 1/22

by Jenny Ryan

Reposted for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-01-22 ==Intros== Q: What are you currently hacking on? A: Mac is hacking sewing machines, making a hat rack, and bikes, and fixing sudo sewing machines!; Arnas is currently not hacking on anything; Chris Bee is currently hacking sound (all of it); Matt is hacking on his camper trailer, and fixing sudo sewing machines!; Daniel hacking on Cisco switches; Nathan is hacking on Indian food. and the public school system; Ryan hacking on a fuel tank. with fiberglass. and sanding.; Sam is hacking on automation; Gaurav hacking on his laptop here; Jordan hacking health; Jenny hacking on networks; James hacking on modules ==Announcements== * Calendar https://sudoroom.org/calendar * #Jan25: Daylong educational event on the ongoing Egyptian revolution - this Friday starting at 3pm * This Saturday's Today We Learned involves building compost toilets! * Machine Learning Meetup at noon in Berkeley on Saturday. (Now on the sudoroom calendar) * Stop the Domain Awareness Center event - Feb. 4th @ Oakland City Hall * Next Omni meeting is Thursday, Feb. 6th from 7-10pm * Oakland Makers meetup was today; organizing the makers of Oakland ==Past Action Items== * Ink donation jar - Juul - not done * Investigate integrating Stripe and/or Balanced Payments [Jenny, Bill] ** Seems Stripe is better for recurring billing (Balanced's recurring billing system is still in beta: https://github.com/balanced/billy) - this is essential for us. Let's try Stripe!) * Look into other hackerspaces'<3 accounting system [Jenny] ** GNU Cash looks most interesting - otherwise not much in the way of FOSS tools for finances: http://www.gnucash.org/ * Get new lease for 2141 Broadway (update to sign with "sudo room" as an entity) - Matt - pending response from George * Reword proposal on problematic non-members (Jenny, Brendan) * slay zombie events that show up when importing from calendar * follow up on the stuff here https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles ==Fiscal Solvency== * $204.11/week from Gittip! * Minimum membership dues: $2.50/wk; Recommended: $15/wk; Endless gratitude: $25/wk, high-fives from a million angels: $100/wk. * Current balance: at least $7700 * Daniel suggests a visual aid to show visitors our fiscal needs and current status ==Amendments to Articles of Association== 1. [Postponed] Final consensus on yar's filming proposal, which was unanimously approved on Dec. 18th meeting: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Filming_at_sudo_room *Discussion around the wording of #1B (alternative wordings in the link above) *Philip suggests looking into the 'Right to Delete' policies of various European countries - + tight windows for keeping data - Privacy by Design The following were not discussed this week, but will go on the agenda for next week: 2. [Postponed] That members don't ever have to show up in person if they don't want voting rights. *Brendan proposes to strike this as unnecessary 3. [Postponed] To empower members to deal with problematic non-members, non-members can be thrown out at any time by a member if that members feel they are being a problem, _unless_ some other member present in the space is willing to vouch for the member as a guest. Non-members being asked to leave must be told that they can further discuss the incident at a Wednesday meeting or on the mailing list. *We need to have a policy on this, but should be written in a more nonviolent manner. 4. [Postponed] Non-members can use the space as much as they want when other members are present, but cannot access the space when no members are there and have to leave when the last member leaves. *Not enough members to reach quorum, push to next week ==conflict resolution== == new members== * Mack [cleaning, organizing, fixing sewing machines] * Gaurav [Gittip] ==Discussion== *Yar suggests we rotate bureacracy meetings with hacknights! *Jenny suggests we add a 'New Members' section to the meeting agenda - Matt done *Calendar situation *Jordan suggests a 'sudo diff' approach to hacking the Articles of Incorporation [delete liberally, add succinctly] ==Action Items== * Move to Stripe [Jenny / Matt] * Poke Laurie re: new lease [Matt] * Reword proposal on problematic non-members (Jenny, Brendan) * fill out statement of information sometime soon https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/ [Jenny, ?] * finish setting up bank acct [Matt, friends] * Publish the new member minimum dues policy to the Articles of Association on-wiki. [Mack] - DONE * Hack on Bylaws / Articles of Assoc [Mac / Jordan / Marina, friends] --------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com

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