<html><head></head><body>Save everyone a lot of trouble and make it a Skype call.<br>
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warning: This message was written in the past and may no longer represent our best understanding of reality.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">girlgeek <girlgeek@wt.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif">I'd be all for it.<br />but<br />Considering the lengths that Assange has gone to to stay OUT of the US, <br />this all sounds highly improbable. I think that this question has more <br />to do with<br />Jesse than Julian, and I don't appreciate it.<br />-Claudia<br />On 7/25/2012 7:13 PM, jim wrote:<br />><br />> I don't see how Julian speaking at Noisebridge should<br />> be dependent on any other issues: that would be presuming<br />> guilt, for one thing, and regardless of his guilt of<br />> whatever (I'm certainly guilty of a number of whatevers)<br />> freedom of speech and his efforts for wikileaks both<br />> recommend his talking at NB.<br />> It seems less than honorable or rightly courageous to<br />> be fearful that Julian might be guilty of some charges as<br />> well as less than practical to think that an official<br />> conviction or
clearance of charges would necessarily be<br />> meaningful.<br />> I don't see any way his coming to NB or speaking at<br />> NB presents any danger to those who attend, either<br />> directly through a personal attack or indirectly through<br />> association. For one thing, given a scheduled date, each<br />> person can make a choice whether or not to attend.<br />><br />> On a somewhat different note, I'm curious to know more<br />> about the experiment Rubin is performing.<br />><br />><br />><br />> On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 17:35 -0700, Cameron Hackett wrote:<br />>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin@starset.net> wrote:<br />>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br />>>> Hash: SHA1<br />>>><br />>>> If Julian Assange offered to give a talk at Noisebridge, would you be:<br />>>><br />>>> All for it!<br />>>> Against it!<br />>>&!
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no fucks!<br />>>> Other?<br />>>><br />>>> This is more of an experiment to see what the community response is,<br />>>> and I have no idea if Julian Assange wants to give a talk at<br />>>> Noisebridge or not.<br />>> I had heard a rumor about Julian being arrested, and heard about there<br />>> being trouble in Sweden.<br />>><br />>> Here's the Wiki page:<br />>><br />>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_Authority">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_Authority</a><br />>><br />>> I would like us to talk this over at the next meeting.<br />>><br />>> I'd like to directly ask Julian to agree not to come to Noisebridge while<br />>> he deals with these charges.<br />>><br />>> Because I want us all to be able to make good decisions about our safety<br />>> and about recommending Noisebridge !
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place for others to come to, I<br />>> felt it is important to say this in public and get it out there as<br />>> information for everyone involved with Noisebridge, rather than to rely<br />>> on people spreading the word through backchannel gossip.<br />>><hr /><br />>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br />>> Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<br />>> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br />><br />><hr /><br />> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br />> Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<br />> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br />><br />><br />> -----<br />> No virus found in this message.<br />> Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br />> Vers!
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