hi ed,

i think that this thursday will be a busy night at sudo room (a number of groups will be meeting and there will be an open knowledge foundation meetup), but your group is welcome to either come check it out on thursday (even though we won't be able to guarantee space for all of you to meet), or check out our calendar for a better night:

PS - not sure if you've seen yet, but you are welcome to add good information about the DAC to the oakland wiki entry about it: http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center

best,

marina

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Ed Biow <biow@riseup.net> wrote:

Hey folks, I'm new on this list, I first visited the sudoroom a month ago or so at the last Cryptoparty and became a member that evening. Some of you may have seen me around, I am a tremendously obese older bloke who generally sports stained suspenders. I have been working with Occupy Oakland for some time and I'm on their web committee, where I've worked with Bill B. & Will H. and perhaps some of the rest of you.

Anywho, as you may know last Tuesday the Oakland City Council tried to slip authorization to spend another $2 million bucks on to the supposedly non-controversial consent calender, but a number of us got wind of it and showed up to harangue them so the council set the meeting for next Tuesday, July 30th at 6:30 or so.
occupyoakland.org/2013/07/sign-up-and-speak-out-against-government-surveillance-at-city-council/
http://occupyoakland.org/2013/07/stop-the-oakland-dac-surveillance-city-speak-out-at-city-council-tuesday-july-30/

We are encouraging folks to sign speaker cards and speak out against funding this further movement towards a surveillance state, if you look at the second article towards the bottom you can see basic instructions about how to fill out a speaker card so you can tell the council what you think of tying all the cameras, license plate readers, and other sensors from the city, private security, the OUSD, BART, CalTrans, etc. together to keep an eye on the citizenry.

Occupy Oakland discussed also having a rally in front of City Hall, perhaps at 5PM before the council meeting to make a bit of noise.

We'd like to have a meeting Thursday to do a bit of research and plan a rally, I thought we might meet at the sudoroom commons area. I know there are already several events planned on an ongoing basis for Thursdays, the Oakland Wiki meeting as well as Wifi Mesh, Python & Javascript meetups. Do you folks think a few of us would get under foot or should I call the meeting for the Oakland Public Library Main Branch teen room or perhaps my fetid domicile? The OPL teen room is open until 8PM.

Solidarity whenever,

Ed

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