June 16th, 2013 General Meeting

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Agenda

  1. NSA Leaks Reviews
  2. Committee Reports
  3. Event Review
    1. Cease & Desist, Boston, June 14th 4-6pm
    2. Drop off of computer for Cameron
  4. Scheduled Events
    1. 2nd Cammy Dee Probable Cause hearing - June 27th
    2. No NSA Spying Protests, July 4th
    3. Cameron D'Ambrosio Fundraiser, Lowell, July 6th, 8pm
    4. Art Beat, Somerville, July 19-20th
    5. Pirate Picnic, George's Island, August 3rd
  5. Conference
    1. Speakers & Schedule
    2. Logistics
  6. Oppose S.654 / H.3261
  7. Cryptocurrency Conference
  8. Endorsement Policy

Quick Notes / Summaries Re Proposed Bills to be Discussed:

Oppose S.654 / H.3261

The partner organizations have agreed on a petition text and a launch date of 6/18 to circulate this online petition to their members. The organizations are: ACLU of MA, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Demand Progress, Digital Fourth and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Here's the text we agreed on:

We, the undersigned, call on the Massachusetts legislature to reject proposals to expand government wiretap powers. Listening in on phone calls and electronic communication poses "grave dangers to the privacy of all citizens of the commonwealth," in the words of our existing law. However, pending legislation would ignore that wise warning. It would permit wiretapping not just in connection with organized crime, or even for serious, violent crimes, but for a wide variety of offenses down to simple drug possession and other less serious offenses. Crime has fallen substantially, but electronic surveillance is on the rise. Now is not the time to hand our government broader powers to eavesdrop on us. We urge you to oppose S.654 / H.3261, An Act Updating the Wire Interception Law.


Cryptocurrency Conference

Conferences tend to take a lot of our time. We need to be finding and preparing candidates for 2014. Having a cryptocurrency conference in Sept. will likely be a distraction from our election plans in 2014 and getting our platform finalized. Jokeefe suggests cancelling it.

Participants

pending

  • Bluestreak: Lucia Fiero, Medway
  • srevilak: Steve Revilak, Arlington
  • Kendra: Kendra Moyer, Arlington
  • black_van - Sevan
  • jokeefe - James O'Keefe, Somerville

Observers:

  • passstab
  • illunatic
  • davidd: David van Deijk, Eindhoven, NL
  • rocode

Summary

National Affairs

Event Review

Scheduled Events

Conference

Flyers

Speakers & Schedule

Have the following panels:

  • Crowdfunding
  • Open Gov.
  • Government surveillance in 2020

Other suggestions:

  • Old and new cyber security legislation
  • Don't Agonize, Organize!

srevilak will ask if we can go longer.

Finishing the discussion on email.

Meeting Minutes

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