[Noisebridge-discuss] Techno-activism, every third monday?

Danny O'Brien danny at spesh.com
Wed Dec 19 20:13:28 UTC 2012


Okay, I got a couple of the best EFFish FOIA peeps to come along
(hullo Marcia and Nate!). We'll meet up at Noisebridge at 7 on 1/21,
do  a Want/Offer Wall and a Goals/Wish List Wall, and then brainstorm
some FOIA requests of our own (bring your ideas). Then we will go eat
somewhere DELICIOUS

I will send reminders closer to the date...

(For those following along at home: OpenITP (http://openitp.org/) are
some extremely smart people who work on open source tools and
resources for activists and journalists, and who are mostly based out
of New York, where there's a growing community of such people. We're
talking about spinning up an equivalent to their monthly meet-up and
hacking session. FOIA == Freedom of Information Act requests, which
are a fascinating and eldritch way to map out the capabilities and
practices of, for instance, the surveillance state. A good resource
for how to do it yourself is here:
https://www.eff.org/issues/transparency . Want/Offer is where we put
up a big pile of post-its on a wall saying you want something or you
have something to offer and... ohhhh that would be a good permanent
thing to have at Noisebridge, wouldn't it?)

d.





On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Morgan Mayhem
<informationwarfare at gmail.com> wrote:
> A few of us that were recently at the Surveillance and Human Rights Camp in
> Rio have been discussing starting FOIA club. This might not be a bad venue
> for this.
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ari Lacenski <alacenski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Roll call for causes under discussion?
>>
>> I have a new political hobby-horse, that dear trope of de-escalation
>> within "public" services. Unfuck The Police, maybe I'll call it.
>>
>> Brainstorming in re: that theme is therefore interesting to me.
>>
>> Ari
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
>> > Morgan Mayhem just suggested that we do a San Francisco version of this:
>> > http://wiki.openitp.org/techno-activism_3rd_mondays
>> >
>> > I very badly want to do this. The next one would be on inauguration
>> > day *and* MLK day,
>> > so that seems timely.
>> >
>> > Anyone else in?
>> >
>> > d.
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