January 31st, 2017 IRC Meeting

Endorsements

Hearing there is another #NoWallNoBan protest scheduled for this weekend. Could be a good opportunity to hand flyers out especially if we can tell people about an upcoming cryptoparty.

Projects

Message board application

At our last Democracy/IT meeting, we discussed trying out reddit (self-hosted) as a discussion and organizing platform.

Projects On Hold For the Moment

Both of these could be topics for future hackathons.

Upcoming Events

1. 2/18, 2-4pm, Democracy/IT meeting, Arlington
2. 2/22, 6-9pm, Somerville Cryptoparty

See: 2017 calendar

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• G (Garrett, Lowell)
• puercha (Puer, Somerville)
• unicornjane (Chris)

Observers

• Techrev
• igel
• davidd
• papegaai
• sankey

Summary

Last Saturday's #NoBanNoWall protest. Around 25k people turned out in Copley Square. Several pirates turned out. We brought a banner, talked to a bunch of people. For events like these, would be nice to do up custom flyers. Steve will draft something. There's another rally happening this weekend, in Somerville: https://www.facebook.com/events/156443441518875/.

Cambridge allows all residents (including non-us citizens) to vote in local elections. Would be nice to see that spread to other municipalities. Could be something to campaign about this year.

Could also campaign about asset forfeiture.

To summarize (possible campaign items for 2017)

1. non-us citizens vote in local elections (and perhaps 16--17 year olds)
2. no civil asset forfeitures
3. stop the expansion of surveillance
4. run for office

Local ordinances. Meeting with Somerville soon. Medford initiative starting up. Arlington warrant article [hearing http://arlingtonma.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/10761/260?curm=2&cury=2017] on Feb 6th.