[sudo-discuss] Rally this Tue. 11/19: Against Oakland's Planned Surveillance Center! 5:30pm at City Hall!

Call to Action: Pack city hall & rally to stop the Domain Awareness Center in Oakland. (Please forward widely) Oakland City Council is building a surveillance center to aggregate video surveillance feeds from all over Oakland. The Domain Awareness Center<http://oaklandwiki.org/dac>(DAC);(DAC), as it's called, will include a computer system that aggregates information from surveillance cameras and license plate readers across Oakland, and in the future may include facial recognition software and social media data mining. On Tuesday 11/19, City Council will be voting on a resolution that will allow them to move forward with a new contractor for the project (after the old contractor was found to violate an Oakland law that prevents the city from doing business with companies that are in the nuclear weapons industry) without issuing a new request for proposal (RFP). If the resolution fails, Oakland will have to issue a new RFP & potentially lose Dept of Homeland Security funds for the center. The NY Times<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surv… the DAC national news, as similar centers are being considered in other cities. There's an opportunity to halt or slow down the construction of the DAC this Tuesday evening, so please join a planned rally at 5:30 and/or come to the City Council meeting itself. Meetings are open to the public & you can even sign up to speak<http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/Sp… is item #20). For more info: On the rally: https://www.facebook.com/events/409163039209928/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcom… email actionforprogress @gmail.com) On the DAC: http://oaklandwiki.org/DAC On twitter: #DAC || @oaklandprivacy <http://twitter.com/oaklandprivacy> &lt;actionforprogress(a)gmail.com&gt;