Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo! Wanna co-host this surveillance event?

Jeremy - Of course! And we should. what does the rest of sudo think? On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Jeremy Entwistle <jwentwistle(a)cryptolab.net wrote: > I think that's an amazing idea. How to do you feel about the mesh and

> cryptoparty (2/23) being mentioned? As both are very practical methods

> promoting secure and decentralized communications. > > On 2014-02-01 21:58, David Keenan wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> The Bay Area Public School has scheduled a surveillance awareness >> event on Friday 2/21 7-9pm in the common room entitled Spied Upon: >> Surveillance & Resistance. I was hoping we (sudo) could co-host this >> event with BAPS, because I think it'd be really cool if we start doing >> more events together. BAPS can do most all of the setup, but it'd be >> great if Sudo can do outreach too, since I think it'd be in the >> interest of both communities. >> >> What do you think? >> >> There's a twofold focus on informants and technological surveillance. >> Here's the Sudo Room calendar EVENT LINK [1]. Details are below - >> >> SPIED UPON: SURVEILLANCE AND RESISTANCE >> Join us Friday February 21st 7-9 pm at the Bay Area Public School [2] >> & Sudo Room >> 2141 Broadway (enter on 22nd), Oakland - three blocks from 19th St. >> Bart! >> >> Between the ever-present fear of informants to the profusion of >> metadata collection and the construction of the Domain Awareness >> Center [3] (DAC) in Oakland, the growing problem of surveillance has >> made it into the mainstream dialog, but the people and communities >> most affected are sometimes being left out of the conversation. >> >> Join us for an evening of ideas, discussion and questions about >> solidarity in the face of this intimidation. How do we support one >> another and our movements when being targeted by police, surveillance >> and informants? What are the legal, community and political responses >> that can best keep the larger "us" safe and allow our movements to >> flourish? >> >> - SPEAKERS - >> JASON KIRKPATRICK, filmmaker and activist, will show clips of and >> discuss his upcoming film, _SPIED UPON_ [4]. Interviewing activists >> across the world and telling his own personal story, Jason will take >> us on a journey into one of Europe's biggest political surveillance >> scandals, documenting growing movements of resistance to surveillance >> along the way. >> >> ZAHRA BILLOO, Civil rights attorney and Executive Director at the Bay >> Area COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS [5] (CAIR), speaks on the >> use of informants in a post-9/11 context, their impact, the >> community's resistance and lessons learned. >> >> RICHARD BROWN, Black Panther and member of the SF8 [6], will share his >> history with undercover police and surveillance, imparting the 'long >> view' of solidarity learned from a lifetime of activism. >> >> - PANEL DISCUSSION - >> Q & A with the speakers will follow in conversation with >> representatives from: >> BAY AREA ANTI-REPRESSION COMMITTEE [7] >> BAY AREA COALITION TO STOP POLITICAL REPRESSION [8] (at AROC) >> LEGAL WORKERS OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD [9] (NLG) >> OAKLAND PRIVACY WORKING GROUP [10] (OPWG / anti-DAC) >> >> All donations gratefully received will go to the Bay Area >> Anti-Repression Committee and the Legal Workers at the Bay Area >> chapter of the NLG - two groups long supporting the Bay Area radical >> community with legal and educational assistance. Thank you! >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1]