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

[Jeremy Entwistle]

I think that's an amazing idea. How to do you feel about the mesh and 
our cryptoparty (2/23) being mentioned? As both are very practical 
methods of 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] https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/spied-upon-bay-area-premiere-baps/
> [2] http://thepublicschool.org/node/36455
> [3] http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center
> [4] http://spiedupon.com/
> [5] http://www.cair.com/
> [6] http://www.freethesf8.org/who.html
> [7] https://oaklandantirepression.wordpress.com/
> [8]
> http://araborganizing.org/campaigns-our-work/coalition-to-stop-political-repression/
> [9] http://www.nlgsf.org/national-lawyers-guild-mission-statement
> [10] https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com/
> 
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