Here’s the scoop. (Looks like you’ll want to get off at 19th street Bart and walk a few blocks over to 23rd St.)
I L L E G A L A R T L I V E M U S I C
Music performance I: Michael Gendreu (from Crawling with Tarts), RAJAR (David Kwan, Xopher Davidson, Patty Liu, Micheal Gendreau, Bob Boster), and Matt Davignon — Wednesday, July 9, 8 p.m. 21 Grand, 449B 23rd Street (between Broadway and Telegraph), Oakland. Sliding scale donation of $5-$10 at the door.
The SF Weekly, SF Bay Guardian, Wired News, and
the Alameda Times-Star are all talkin’ ’bout the exhibit.
Or as I like to call it, the “Let’s blow another 30 million the state doesn’t have drawing attention away from the energy scandal, instead of focusing on getting our 7 Billion back from the real crooks” campaign.
These are both from the June 17, 2003 Daily Show.
Jon Stewart On The CA Recall (Small – 6 MB)
Lewis Black On The CA Recall (Small – 9 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)
The famed Illegal Art Exhibit that’s been touring all across the country is in San Francisco for a good part of July.
Here’s a clip from ABC news on the exhibit that will give you a taste of the treasures that await you.
There’s also a great film festival where the artists and subjects of the films will be around on hand to answer questions.
Keep an eye out here for information on all of this stuff all month long.
Illegal Art On ABC News (Small – 5 MB)
Illegal Art On ABC News (Hi-res 100% – 92 MB)
About these notes and videos — how the files are named, etc.
Here’s Lessig’s own description of the Monday morning sessions:
“The point (of Jonathan’s session) is to layout some framework for the technology. And the objective of this second part of the morning is to lay out the framework about how to think through these questions of regulation in the context of cyberspace by thinking through a little bit about the question of regulation in real space.”
Larry June 30 – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 81 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 41 MB)
Larry June 30 – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 45 MB)
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License.
I don’t have any notes for these opening sessions because I was getting aquainted with following Larry around with the camera.
(Jumpy bunch those ILAW folks! — Larry, Jonathan, Yochai, Terry, Charlie — the whole lot of them!)
In the afternoon, I actually got to be on a panel so I had to just get a long shot for most of it (although I did end up going back and forth between being on the panel and getting some close ups when the subject matter was to precious and I knew a long shot wouldn’t do.
A bit later, after I was able to get used to things, I was able to take notes while filming. You’ll know when this takes place because 1) you’ll have the notes and 2) you’ll start to notice me missing a shot every now and then when my subject bounces out of view momentarily.
So there are trade-offs, but this whole thing’s just a big experiment anyway. So it would appear that no harms done.
I would really appreciate your feedback on this footage. Does it work OK? Can you hear everything? Suggestions for next time? All that kind of stuff is duly appreciated.
Oh yeah — Every clip is numbered in order, by day (1-day1-larry-1of4-sm.mov, 2-day1-larry-1of4-sm.mov, etc.), so you can just watch them all in order if you like.
See more about this in the “How these files are named and organized” section I’ll be putting up soon.
This first half of the Monday morning’s session is the only session of the conference that I wasn’t able to capture on video.
(I hadn’t asked if it was OK yet and I felt kind of funny just showing up with a camera.)
Below are my notes…
Yikes! Tragedy strikes! Multiple disk failure!
And then the backup kicks in! (YES!)
So things are back up!
Thanks to Kelly, Shaun, Brad and Brak at the Internet Archive!
But we need to do some more maintenance before I can upload more stuff.
So hold tight!
Political Veteran
By Peter Carlson for The Washington Post.
Last fall, Cleland voted for the resolution authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq, but now he feels he was bamboozled.
“I voted for it because I was told by the secretary of defense and by the CIA that there were weapons of mass destruction there,” he says. “The president said it, Colin Powell said it, they all said it. And now they can’t find them! Our general over there, who has no dog in this fight, he said he sent troops all over the place and they found two trailers and not much of anything else. So we went to war for two trailers?”
The war in Iraq is beginning to look awfully familiar to Max Cleland.
“Now wait a minute,” he says. “Let me run this back: We have a war. A bunch of Americans die. After the war, we try to figure out why we were there. There’s a commitment of 240,000 ground troops with no exit strategy. You know what that’s called? Vietnam! Hey, I’ve been there, done that, got a few holes in my T-shirt.”
Sorry for not letting you guys know about this sooner.
It’s basically another lunch time activity from 12-2pm at the intersection of Polk and Golden Gate in San Francisco. One block from the Civic Center Bart Station.
There will be a press conference and rally where you can learn more about what’s going on and show your support. These events are also excellent opportunities to speak to one of several legal experts personally if you have specific questions.
We’ve got to fight back swiftly against the travesty of justice that is the Domestic Enhancement Security Act (Patriot II). The very future of our nation, and I believe, the rest of the world, depends on it.
There will be a ton of great speakers there from the ACLU, Refuse and Resist, Amnesty International and many other groups.
Hope to see you there!
Here’s the whole message I received:
MEDIA ADVISORY
Sunday, July 6, 2003
CONTACT: Stella Richardson
ACLU
415-621-2493 or Colleen at 510-288-7432
Civil Rights and Community Groups Launch Week of Action to Stop **Patriot Act II**
What: Rally to Reclaim Patriotism and Stop **Patriot Act II**
When: Monday July 7th from noon to 2 pm
Where: San Francisco Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue
Who: Bob Kearney, Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union; Matthew Von Saun, Amnesty International; Dave Meserve, Arcada City Council person; Allan Solomonow, American Friends Service Committee; Shahram Agahamir, fired Oakland City worker; Henry Norr, fired SF Chronicle reporter; Ladan Sobhani, Global Exchange; Samena Faheem, American Muslim Voice; Cecilia Chang, Justice for New Americans; Riva Enteen, National Lawyers Guild; Maryjane, Oakland High School student; Rev Michael Yoshi (Buena Vista Methodist Church of Alameda); Colleen Akai, Refuse & Resist!
SAN FRANCISCO ** Following Independence Day celebrations over the July 4th weekend, community organizations will launch a week of action designed to reclaim patriotism and to stop the passage of draft legislation dubbed **Patriot Act II.**
At a July 7th rally, community leaders will call on northern Californians to urge their Members of Congress to prevent the introduction and passage of the proposed **Domestic Security Enhancement Act** (Patriot Act II). They will also urge Congress to fix provisions within the original USA Patriot Act of November 2001 that needlessly erode civil liberties and rights.
Less than two years after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act, giving new, sweeping powers to the federal government to compile information on ordinary Americans, Attorney General John Ashcroft is seeking to introduce legislation that would further erode constitutional checks and balances.
The Domestic Security Enhancement Act would further enhance government powers, eliminating or weakening remaining limits on government surveillance, wiretapping, detention and prosecution.
Endorsements:ACLU, Amnesty International; American Muslims Voice; Blue Triangle Network; Global Exchange; SF Gray Panthers; Justice for New Americans; National Lawyers Guild; Tri City CAREs, Tri City Action, Refuse & Resist!; Not In Our Name; Pakistani American…