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

[Danny O'Brien]

If I make you king of FOIA club, Geoff, will you forgive me for being
an appalling email-replyer? Also are you free on MLK day?

d.
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Marcia Hofmann <marcia at eff.org> wrote:
>
> 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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