Okay guys, now’s where I can use your help.
If you can’t make the protests tomorrow, please FAX a letter to Nancy Pelosi or do whatever else you can to help.
Letters Up On Special Registration Protest Site
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Category Archives: Adventures in Hacktivism
Footage From Monday’s INS Detainee Protest In San Francisco
Chris Michael at the INS Detainee Protest, January 6, 2003 – San Francisco – (Med-res 41 MB)
Chris Michael at the INS Detainee Protest, January 6, 2003 – San Francisco – (Lo-res 23 MB)
Audio – Chris Michael at the INS Detainee Protest, January 6, 2003 – San Francisco – (MP3 – 4 MB)
Montage – INS Detainee Protest, January 6, 2003 – San Francisco – (Hi-res 12 MB)
Montage – INS Detainee Protest, January 6, 2003 – San Francisco – (Med-res 9 MB)
Montage – INS Detainee Protest, January 6, 2003 – San Francisco – (Lo-res 5 MB)
A Little Too Much Excitement For My Taste
I had the oddest encounter with a police officer today at the INS Detainee Protest in San Francisco at 444 Washington Street. (Note: protests going on from 11am-1pm all week long.)
Unfortunately, my camera wasn’t recording when he came over to start asking me questions (I really need to just start the thing rolling and leave it going) and I was paying to much attention trying to understand exactly what he was saying to me — and trying to figure out what exactly his concerns were — that it didn’t even occur to me to press the record button or anything. (Turned out my camera had already timed out.)
After all this happened, I was pretty much intimidated and didn’t feel much like filming too much more today.
I didn’t want to forget the details of what had taken place, so I had someone film me right afterwards while I had a fresh recollection…
Lisa Rein at the INS Detainee Protest, January 8, 2003 – San Francisco – (Hi-res 20 MB)
Lisa Rein at the INS Detainee Protest, January 8, 2003 – San Francisco – (Med-res 15 MB)
Lisa Rein at the INS Detainee Protest, January 8, 2003 – San Francisco – (Lo-res 9 MB)
Audio – Lisa Rein at the INS Detainee Protest, January 8, 2003 – San Francisco – (MP3 – 3 MB)
New INS Detainee Protest Site Launched
I’ve just launched my INS Detainee Protest website. It’s not too late to organize something for Friday in your town. Email me at lisarein@finetuning.com with any details and I’ll post them to my site.
It’s been a really interesting experience working with the ad-hoc group of concerned citizens over the last two weeks planning this protest. This is really the first protest that I’ve ever been involved in organizing. I’ll be writing more about all that soon.
For today, I’ll be fleshing out the FAQ and How You Can Help sections more over the course of day. (Sorry that those are still a bit rough — they’re like the most important pages, I know! There’s a ton of questions to answer and the letters need polishing and I just had to get some zzzz last night 🙂
If you have a specific question – please email it to me so I can answer it in the FAQ.
I just wanted to get this up in time to get the word out — If you’re here in San Francisco – we’re protesting out in front of the INS Building at 444 Washington everyday between 11am-1pm. Then the big protest is Friday from 11-1pm. There will also be a rally and a number of speakers on Friday.
Thanks for spreading the word and coming back to the site to check out the footage of the protest.
I’ve got footage from Monday and Tuesday going up this morning.
I’ve also posted a page of a lot more Footage from the December 23, 2002 INS Detainee protest in San Francisco. (And added the footage to my video index.)
MP3s of Speech from San Francisco Protest
Here are audio files of Farhan Memon, Legal Aide for the Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers — from the protest last monday.
Farhan Memon explanation 1 (6 MB)
Farhan Memon explanation 2 (6 MB)
I’m finishing up some nice compressed versions of more footage from monday, with MP3s of everything to match, and I promise they will all be up by this time tomorrow.
Sorry for the hold up. I know that Indy Media and some other media affiliates are actually waiting for this footage (a dream come true for me to have this stuff redistributed through as many channels as possible) — and I promise that I am putting the systems into place so that I can shoot footage of events like these and have the video and mp3s up on the web in hours rather than days so I can be of real use to the “real” media outlets. (That’s what I’m here for — to help you guys report on this stuff!)
So pardon me while I figure out my equipment and software and get my cataloging act together!
INS Roundup Protest Today!
Come down to the protest in San Francisco this morning at 11:00 AM — that’s Monday, December 23, 2002 at 11:00 AM — at the INS building at 444 Washington Street, San Francisco.
Here’s a map to the event
Here’s a gif of that map if the mapquest link above doesn’t work.
444 Washington is sort of in between the Embarcadero and Montgomery St. BART stations (a couple blocks west of market street ).
From Embarcadero BART Go south on Market (away from the Ferry Building) and make a RIGHT on Drumm street. Then make a LEFT on WASHINGTON St. to the INS building at 444 Washington.
From Montgomery St. BART, take Montgomery St. to Washington and make a RIGHT on Washington to 444 Washington.
Otherwise bring $5-$10 to park in a parking garage somewhere.
I will, of course, be filming the event, so if you can’t make it, check back here for footage tomorrow afternoon.
Send An Anti-TIA Letter To Somebody Who Might Care
I just send a letter to Orrin G. Hatch (Judiciary Comittee Chair) via the EFF’s Action Center asking him as chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, to permit either the Technology and Terrorism Subcommittee or the
full Judiciary Committee to hold oversight hearings on Total Information Awareness. A copy was also sent to my Representative, Nancy Pelosi.
I timed it and it took me less than a minute. (Including having them send me a new password.)
Very Cool. (I’d like a round of applause please for Ren Bucholtz, EFF Activisit.)
Think I’ll go back and send another one. (This time asking to cut TIA funding.)
(This could be habit forming.)
Video Footage of Nancy Pelosi’s Celebration Party
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I finally finished transcribing the speeches and organizing my video footage from Nancy Pelosi’s Celebration Party on November 23, 2002 in San Francisco, California. |
I say to people “you can take any issue or you can take any day of the week, and there is a case to be made against the Republicans.” But let’s just take yesterday.
Yesterday, Congress adjourned without passing unemployment benefits for Americas workers — who worked hard, played by the rules, lost their jobs through no fault of their own but because of the downturn in the economy.
On December 28, 800,000 hard working Americans will no longer have their benefits because the Republicans refused to pass that. There was even a compromise from the Senate, which we still controlled up until yesterday, that said: ‘Let’s extend the benefits until February at least to give people a chance past the holidays and the rest.’ They absolutely refused.
The Democrats said ‘We’re going to hold up the adjournment of Congress so that we cannot leave until you pass these benefits.’ They said ‘you can bring the Congress back here every single day from now on. We’re never going to pass those benefits.’ That’s who the Republicans in Congress are…insensitive to the concerns of working families in America.”
Become An Election Officer In Your Town
I went to the San Fransisco Department of Elections page to learn about volunteering to be an “Election Officer” (Poll Worker).
So I’ve decided that I’m going to volunteer to be an Election Officer here in San Francisco and that it would sure be great if you did the same in your town.
This way, we can all learn about the nuts and bolts of our country’s elections together. Doesn’t that sound like a blast! It sure won’t be fun on my own, I’ll tell you that much.
It’s also going to take a lot of us on our toes in all fifty states if we’re actually going to be able to make a difference in 2004 — so working together on a little thing like this seems like a great starting point.
So far I’ve stumbled across and downloaded a Election Officer’s Training Manual and an Application Form. More soon…
Movies and Pictures from Nov 18, 2002 Anti-War/Anti-Feinstein Protest in San Francisco
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I’ve uploaded my video footage from the Anti-war in Iraq/Anti-Feinstein protest in San Francisco Monday, November 18, 2002. |
As always with my news video footage, everything is Dedicated to the Public Domain.
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I’m working on a better interface and a comprehensive index so folks won’t get lost in the quagmire of my rapidly-expanding library of video footage.
I’ll also have some technical notes up soon to help explain how to install the software required to get the movies to run on various platforms for you non-uber techie folks.
I also still need to re-encode everything as MPEGs capable of running on unix-based operating systems.