Re: [Wikimedia Cascadia] Fwd: [ta3m-seattle-discuss] [ta3m-seattle-announce] announce: TA3M Seattle June: Community, Communications, Assholes and Infiltrators

Lisha, our speaker from last night needs some funding help. Please help if you can. Thanks! -----SNIP----- Please help Lisha Sterling and Joel Preston Smith get to the The Circle of HOPE conference ! Lisha will be giving a talk entitled "Tech Warrior Camp at Standing Rock: Lessons for Keeping The Lights On and the Livefeeds Streaming". Lisha and Joel will be presenting a workshop together called "Assholes and Infiltrators: A game for every activist" to help people learn how to deal with difficult or problematic members of a community to prevent damage to the core work of your group. Unfortunately, HOPE does not pay for speakers' travel, so we need YOUR help to get there. We need airfare for each of us (coming from different states), plus a place to sleep, food, and transportation in New York. Joel Preston Smith is the Director of Field Operations and Communications at Frontline Wellness United. Lisha Sterling is the Executive Director at Geeks Without Bounds and also a board member at Frontline Wellness United. Both do this work FULL TIME and neither currently receives a salary for the work they do. -----SNIP----- https://www.gofundme.com/get-joel-and-lisha-to-hope On 06/11/2018 05:26 PM, Lee Fisher wrote: > WHAT: TA3M Seattle (Tech Activism, 3rd Mondays) June meeting > WHEN: June 18th, 6:30-9:00pm (3rd Mondays) > WHERE: WeWork South Lake Union, 500 Yale Ave N > > Networking and food 6:30-7:00. Presentation starts at 7:00. Community > discussion after presentation. > > Food is pizza, pizza and 2 kinds of vegetarian salad, about 1/3 of the > pizzas are also vegetarian. Lesson learned from last month. > > ===== > > PRESENTATION: > > Community, Communications, Assholes and Infiltrators > By Lisha Sterling > > Over the past three years, Geeks Without Bounds (GWOB) has been working > on a number of community Internet projects -- from "Canoe Net" in the > Ecuadoran jungle to WiFi at Standing Rock. Along the way, we've learned > that communications technology is both a boon for low resource > communities and a potential weakness that allows powerful enemies of the > community to track and destroy the very things the community stands for. > Mobile networks are vulnerable to cell site simulators (aka IMSI > Catchers, aka Stingrays). An Internet connection opens you up to all > manner of possible attack. Social media gives the government and > corporations information that can be used against you. And yet, without > these communications tools low resource communities have little if any > chance to compete, engage in global discussions, or improve their local > situation. Learn about how we are working to help communities from India > to "Indian Country" connect to the Internet and each other, and how we > are helping them stay safe(r) once they connect. > > Lisha Sterling is the executive director of Geeks Without Bounds, a > nonprofit organization that supports open source technology in low > resource situations. She writes about cybersecurity for activists at > nonviolent-conflict.org. She is the board member in charge of > information security for Frontline Wellness United (a nonprofit > organization providing free medical, dental and mental health services > to activists and whistleblowers) and also serves on the board of Gods > and Radicals (a nonprofit cooperative Pagan Anti-Capitalist publisher), > where she has recently been writing about lessons learned while > coordinating the technology team at the Water Protector camps in > Standing Rock, ND in 2016-2017. > > ===== > > COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: > > We'll have dedicated time for community Q&A with the speaker and meet & > greet after the talk. We've had a lot of this at past meetings - let's > keep it going! > > ===== > > LOCATION: > > This month, for the first time, we'll be hosted at the South Lake Union > branch of WeWork. Thanks to Meetup.com and Michelle for arranging it! > > WeWork - South Lake Union > 500 Yale Avenue North > Seattle WA 98109 > https://www.wework.com/buildings/south-lake-union--seattle--WA > > Note: Try to get there on time. Building doors lock after hours. A TA3M > organizer will be waiting for stragglers until about 7:10, After that, > look for a yellow-sticky on door for a number to call to get someone to > get you in. > > >