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Get FISA Right: quick update

Dec 11, 2008

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Executive Summary Ideas for Change competition: currently #6; please vote for and help promote our idea. Cable TV ads: notes from last conference call are up; next call Saturday; script frozen by Monday.Â Update, 9:30 pm: draft scripts including “Better watch those nuns — and their friends too” posted.Â Feedback please! 2009 strategy planning: please…

Get FISA Right: Proposed 2009 strategy

Dec 9, 2008

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After discussions with people in Get FISA Right as well as others (including EFF, ACLU, privacy advocates, and journalists), I’ve put together a proposal for a 2009 Strategy.Â There’s also a Strategy Backgrounder, with a brief history, and a discussion of our strengths and challenges — as well as challenges for the anti-FISA forces in…

Three important posts on techPresident

Dec 8, 2008

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techPresident continues its recent roll, with three very worthwhile posts. Micah Sifry’s The Other Transition: Whither Obama’s Movement? contrasts the transparency of change.gov and the transition in DC with the top-down and relatively closed nature (so far) of the discussions about the future for the organizers network and my.barackobama.com.Â Excellent comments from folks like Wade…

Get FISA Right: Proposed 2009 communication channels

Dec 4, 2008

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In response to the consistent feedback that we need to simplify our communications mechanisms, there’s a proposal up on the wiki.Â A summary: to stay informed: check the website/blog at getfisaright.net OR get action alerts and daily(ish) newsletters on any one of the channels listed in the “Broadcasts” section below (email, RSS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)…

FISA: How will the Obama administration respond on immunity?

Dec 3, 2008

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Justice Department attorney Carl Nichols didn’t get through his first full sentence defending the constitutionality of retroactive immunity for spying telecom carriers before U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker interrupted to ask about President-elect Barack Obama. “We are going to have new attorney general,” Walker interjected in Tuesday morning’s hearing in a San Francisco courthouse. “Why…

change.org/MySpace “Ideas for Change in America” top 20

Dec 1, 2008

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in political, social computing

Updated info available at the top ideas list on the change.org site Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven project that aims to identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and 111th Congress can turn the broad call for “change” across the country into specific policies…. The top…

“A very special Ad Astra holiday” 2.0

Nov 25, 2008

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in Professional, Uncategorized

For those of you who have gotten to know me over the last twelve months, Ad Astra (Analysis and Development of Awesome STRAtegies) was a grassroots strategy/culture change project I led at Microsoft.Â Its positive focus, wiki-centricity, and network-oriented strategies foreshadowed a lot of work on Get FISA Right and the Voter Suppression Wiki; it’s…

Get FISA Right and Change.org’s Ideas site: Rupert Murdoch as civil rights sugar daddy?

Nov 24, 2008

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Nancy Scolaâ€™s Ideas for Change, and a Roadmap in techPresidentâ€™s â€œDaily Digestâ€ discusses Change.orgâ€™s Ideas for Change in America: The social-action hub has just announced that the project now has the backing of MySpace and a broad coalition of supporting partners, including techPresident, the Sunlight Foundation, Netroots Nation, VotoLatino, GOOD Magazine, Change Congress, Campus Progress,…

Creating the future: Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2009

Nov 20, 2008

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in privacy, Professional, social computing, Tales from the Net

From conference co-chairs Cindy Southworth and Jay Stanley’s Call for presentations, tutorials, and workshops: The 19th annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is now accepting proposals for panels, workshop sessions, and other events. CFP is the leading policy conference exploring the impact of the Internet, computers and communications technologies on society. It will be taking…

Obama and privacy: some early disquieting signs

Nov 18, 2008

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in political, privacy

Sarah Lai Stirland discusses Barack Obama’s Privacy Challenge on Wired’s Threat Level, focusing on the question of what’s going to happen to the huge amount of information that Obama, the Democrats, and firms like Catalist collected from during the campaign from all kinds of sources — voter files, commercial databases, phone and canvassing information, etc.…

#MotrinMoms: From Twitter to the NY Times in 24 hours.

Nov 17, 2008

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in political, social computing

Katja Presnal’s Motrin Ad Makes Moms Mad Motrin’s “viral” video making fun of babywearing mothers — timed for the start of International Babywearing Week — has, much to their PR firms amazement, led to a backlash.Â As Allyson Kaplan’s Motrin’s Pain: Viral Video Disaster on Fast Company’s Radical Tech describes: The viral video worked in…

Join the Impact: taking social network activism (and LGBTQ rights) to the next level

Nov 13, 2008

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Kate X Messer’s Young gay marriage activist leads national protests on 365 Gay profiles Seattle Amy Balliett, who started up the Join the Impact web site after a blog post and email by her friend Willow Witte.Â Amy’s 26, and her day job is as a search engine optimizer.Â It’s also an excellent history of…

A proposal for Obama’s new CTO: Require independent review by technical experts

Nov 12, 2008

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in political, Professional, Uncategorized

Yesterday my former Microsoft colleague Matt Lerner, now at FrontSeat (“software for civic life”) sent out mail about the new ObamaCTO.org site, a user-powered forum for gathering and prioritizing ideas for Obama’s new CTO.Â Anybody can register, vote on ideas, or submit your own; in a twist from digg-style rating, each person is limited to…

Online activism in response to anti-LGBTQ propositions

Nov 10, 2008

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in political, Tales from the Net

There’s a huge amount of activism going on in response to Prop 8 in California and the other anti-LGBTQ state propositions that passed.Â A few I know about: Join the Impact is focused on a national day of protest on November 15.Â Their Google Group and Patrick’s post on Pam’s House Blend have more. The…

Petitions are soooooo 20th century

Nov 9, 2008

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in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

I set up a petition here, and I’ll be sending the comments onward to John Podesta and Michael Strautmanis of the Obama transition team. — Matt Stoller, Larry Summers At Treasury: A Fox in the Henhouse, OpenLeft The first two replies to Matt’s post were JoelN: Is it still possible to start new ‘MyBO’ groups?…

Notes from underground: the weekend after

Nov 9, 2008

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in Personal

Psymbolic 4, at the Gingerbread House in SF.Â Liam Shy, Dr. Spook, Predators (with their CD as a bonus) … it had been a long week so we left at about 3 a.m. and missed the last few DJs, but a fine night nonetheless.Â As we said our goodbyes to Spook on the way out,…

Hope 1, Fear 0: YES WE DID!

Nov 4, 2008

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in Personal, political, social sciences

From Eluminatus: A change is coming Why be shrunk by fear when you can choose hope? Why be manipulated by hate when you can choose desire? Why settle for singularity when you can have multiplicity? Control is an illusion and influence is possible. Look for meta-level solutions. Avoid false dualities. Change is performative. Worship the…

Reminder: if you’re in line when the polls close, you can vote

Nov 4, 2008

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With long lines all over the country, the Voter Suppression Wiki is issuing another action alert with a reminder that as long as you’re in line when the polls close, you can still vote. “Voters who are in line before their local polling place closes must be allowed to vote,” says Lillie Coney of EPIC…

Why vote?

Nov 4, 2008

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in Personal, political

Why Vote? a Fib, by Gregory K. Vote. Why? Folks fight For this right. It’s not just a word: Vote! It’s how you make your voice heard. Originally published on Gottabook

Showtime for election protection and citizen journalism!

Nov 3, 2008

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in political, social sciences, Tales from the Net

They’re already voting in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, so Election Day has officially begun.Â Showtime! We’ve just finished our last minute polishing for the Voter Suppresssion Wiki, with a redesigned home page, aÂ Voter Suppression Documented summary with snippets of a dozen different examples, final touches to the Media Room, the Prepare for election day…

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