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internet punditry industry -- especially when online advocacy is
reduced to a series of gestures (those calls to turn your Facebook
photo to Neda, in one very misguided moment) by those same
disconnected elites. But I'm curious about where the optimistically
skeptical middle ground is with info-activism: rather than get caught
in media hype cycles around "Twitter revolutions" I'd like to look at
more "ordinary" acts of resistance and truth-telling. What are people
who would never consider themselves activists doing? What really works
to make change vs. what plays well on Twitter? And when we're using
the internet to organize in ways that enable our surveillance, are we
fighting back against surveillance with more surveillance (or
sousveillance I suppose)? Or is that kind of "activism" really about
the vanity of activism? (And I don't knock vanity or sousveillance
here. I first got learned HTML so I could be a webcam girl as a
teenager.)

So looking forward the conference very much --

MGG

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Melissa Gira Grant / melissa at melissagira.com /

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Gabriella Coleman <biella at nyu.edu> wrote:
> fyi.
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Radical-techies] twitter, anarchists
> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:03:30 -0400
> From: Ivan Boothe <web at rootwork.org>
> To: Radical Techies List <radical-techies at lists.mayfirst.org>
> References: <4ACAC9E7.4050307 at mlcastle.net>
>
> This looks great Mike, I posted it on my Twitter.
>
> Democracy Now did an interview with Elliot Madison and his lawyer
> yesterday that had a few more details, including that the FBI seized,
> among other things, "Curious George stuffed animals." He was quite on
> point in regards to Twitter and police repression, when the host said
> they were the first activists to have been charged with crimes for use
> of Twitter to monitor police activity at protests:
>
> "We=92re not the first. We=92re the first in this country. During the
> Twitter revolution going on in Iran, in Moldova, in Guatemala, in the
> earlier newscast about Honduras, in all those cases, repressive
> governments have arrested folks for using Twitter. The only difference
> is, in all those cases the State Department, the US State Department,
> has condemned the arrest of these Twitter activists and had gone so
> far in the Iranian situation, the State Department, according to an
> article, asked Twitter to postpone its regular maintenance so as not
> to interfere with Iranian protesters to be able to send out their
> tweets. So the only difference is we=92re the first arrested here. But
> this is a=97over the past two years, repressive governments have been
> arresting people. The only difference is, the State Department has
> supported=97I=92m expecting the State Department will come out and suppor=
t
> us also."
> http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/6/twitter_crackdown_nyc_activist_arre=
sted_for
>
> Amy Goodman subsequently wrote an article in Truthdig, "Watch What You
> Tweet":
>
> "Rather than encourage and support the use of distributed,
> decentralized social networks to strengthen our democracy and dissent
> (remember, the Obama campaign itself relied extensively on these
> online and mobile tools), the government seems headed in the opposite
> direction. Los Angeles Chief of Police William Bratton recently won
> acclaim at the annual meeting of the Major Cities Chiefs Association,
> a professional organization of police executives representing 63 of
> the largest cities in the United States and Canada. Bratton has
> launched 'I Watch LA,' described as 'a community awareness program
> created to educate the public about behaviors and activities that may
> have a connection to terrorism.' The iWatch program, despite Bratton=92s
> assertion otherwise, is about spying on your neighbors and turning
> them in to the police."
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091006_watch_what_you_tweet/?ln
>
> Free Speech Radio also interviewed the head of the CDT about this, who
> said more or less similar things to Elliot's lawyer.
> http://www.fsrn.org/audio/activist-elliot-madison=B4s-twitter-case-
> sparks-criticism-police-and-fbi/5555
>
> Mikes site links to the EFF's posted versions of the search warrants
> and legal documents, if you haven't seen them:
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/man-arrested-twittering-goes-court-e=
ff-has-documen
>
> --ivan
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 12:39 AM, mike castleman wrote:
>
>> I'm not particularly sure it'll accomplish much, but do see my new
>> project:
>> http://twitterrevolution.us/
>>
>> Suggestions for improvements (content, code, design) with or without
>> patches much appreciated.
>>
>> mlc
>>
>> --
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>> http://mlcastle.net/
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