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

Mon Feb 3 00:07:16 PST 2014

Hi all..

I know there hasn't been much activity on this thread, but I was wondering
if I could up the ante. Because sometimes, life's just like that.

Would we (sudo) be willing to entirely host this event? Without BAPS..

I ask because the event's organizers would really like for there to be a
simple donation box somewhere off to the side in the space, for folks to be
able to donate directly at the event. This money would go to Oakland's
Anti-Repression Committee and National Lawyer Guild's Legal Workers (the
non-lawyer workforce part of the NLG).

Within BAPS, there has emerged some reservation amongst organizers that
having any other group (that is not BAPS) accept donations at an event BAPS
hosts, might abrogate our statement of financial principles that there be
no solicitation at the event. There's a confusion here that can't work
itself out until our next general meeting at the earliest, which isn't for
a while, and in the meantime.. the event needs to be promoted and have a
home that is assured.

So having Sudo solely host this event instead of BAPS, would solve a real
headache for us.

Are we down for this? I've already set the speakers and logistics up.. we
just need a home, and hopefully, be able to put it on Sudo's facebook.

alla best,
David

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:05 PM, johanna faust <female.faust at gmail.com>wrote:

> i agree awesome idea. and second the mention.   keenly watching this
> thread.
>
> On 2/2/14, David Keenan <dkeenan44 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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