22 Jul
2013
22 Jul
'13
4:06 p.m.
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-surveill…
http://occupyoakland.org/2013/07/stop-the-oakland-dac-surveillance-city-spe…
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