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

[Marcia Hofmann]

Absolutely! Cc'ing Geoff to loop him in.

(And Danny -- I deeply admire your use of the word "eldritch.")

On 12/19/12 12:27 PM, Morgan Mayhem wrote:
> 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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>>>> 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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