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Get FISA Right: Proposed 2009 strategy

Dec 9, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing

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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jon

in political, social computing

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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jon

in political, social computing

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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jon

in Personal

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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jon

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

Nov 24, 2008

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jon

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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jon

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

Nov 17, 2008

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jon

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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jon

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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jon

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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jon

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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jon

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?…
Showtime for election protection and citizen journalism!

Nov 3, 2008

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jon

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…
Voter Suppression Wiki action alert: preparing for election day

Nov 3, 2008

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jon

in Uncategorized

The Voter Suppression Wiki has issued our second action alert, this one focused on preparations for election day at the polls, along with a video that’s already been featured by YouTube. As Baratunde Thurston says in our media release, “All of the debates, research, organizing and enthusiasm can be undermined if people don’t head to…
Protecting the election by “leveraging” office printers

Oct 30, 2008

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jon

in Uncategorized

cross-posted on Pam’s House Blend, OpenLeft, and MyDD and Oxdown Gazette, with various differences due to HTML incompatibilities but some cool polls to make up for it. Executive Summary: Print out election protection documents on Friday and Saturday, at work (unless you’d get fired) and at home (if you have a fast printer): My Vote,…
Media release: Voter Suppression Wiki workshop highlights last-minute opportunities for reducing voter suppression

Oct 30, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Cyberspace — A diverse group of bloggers, community organizers, media professionals, technologists, and voting rights activists have issued a report with several last-minute recommendations to reduce voter suppression in the upcoming US Election.Â Some of the most significant opportunities involve increasing awareness of resources like the non-partisan Election Protection hotlines at 1-866-OUR-VOTE/1-888-VE-Y-VOTA, engaging the tens…
Update on the Workshop on Last-minute strategies for reducing voter suppression

Oct 27, 2008

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jon

in political, social computing, Tales from the Net

Update: w00t, w00t, Voter Suppression Wiki is mentioned in Noam Cohen’s Casting a Ballot, and a Wary Eye in the New York Times — and I’m quoted (â€œThe interesting challenge â€” the story in progress â€” is how do we coordinate our effortsâ€)!Â Â Mom will be proud 🙂 We’re roughly at the midpoint of the…
Radio, radio. You’re gonna hear me on your radio. Tonight!

Oct 26, 2008

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jon

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

On Saturday, Jon hosted a major organizing conference call that became a strategy session for countering voter suppression nationwide. And, so, in a bit of marvelously self-reflexive irony, with Jon’s help, we’ll be using that same approach to make this hour of our show into a kind of national town meeting of the air, by…
Announcing a last-minute workshop on “Last-minute strategies for reducing voter suppression”

Oct 24, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social sciences, Tales from the Net

Heading into the last ten days before the election, it’s clear that is there are still huge opportunities to reduce voter suppression.Â How to make best use of this time?Â There are so many groups doing great stuff here that there are lots of opportunities for synergy; at the same time, there’s also a lot…
Live from Madison this Sunday: social network activism and the Voter Suppression Wiki

Oct 23, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social sciences, Tales from the Net

I’ll be appearing on John Quinlan and Harry Waisbren’s show Forward Forum this Sunday from 8-9 CDT, on the air in Madison and streamed live at WTDY.Â I met Harry working on Get FISA Right, and so we’ll be discussing social network activism in general, looking at some of the experiences I discuss in Reflections…