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

[Morgan Mayhem]

Ok, so I know that Geoff King was keen to run FOIA club. So I don't want to
jump the gun here...

It might be good to contact him :)

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:

> 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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> lawful
> >> means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh
> them
> >>
> >
>



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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful
means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them
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