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

[David Keenan]

Jeremy - Of course! And we should.

what does the rest of sudo think?

On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Jeremy Entwistle <jwentwistle at cryptolab.net>
wrote:

> 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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