[GPSCC-chat] Fw: re: The persecution

[Drew]

Thank you very much for posting this John!

In related news, on May 1st the fledging De Anza Green Party Club will be coordinating an event about Aaron Swartz and his work to free humans from the chains of ludicrous and oppressive criminalization of copyright violation (as alluded to in the post below).  The movement Aaron was working on is called the A2K (Access To Knowledge) movement and its about the fact that the U.N. declared access to knowledge a human right in 1948.  No humans anywhere should be subjected to the enforced ignorance that the imprisonment of information by the 1% brings.

More info soon!

May Day!  A2K = Human Right!
May 1st, De Anza College

Green is GO!

Drew

 
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> From: John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com>
>To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org 
>Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2013 6:04 PM
>Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: re: The persecution
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>FYI.  Please donate what you can. Thanks.
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>John Thielking
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>--- On Sat, 3/9/13, Sam Adler-Bell, DemandProgress.org <info at demandprogress.org> wrote:
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>>From: Sam Adler-Bell, DemandProgress.org <info at demandprogress.org>
>>Subject: re: The persecution
>>To: "John Thielking" <pagesincolor at yahoo.com>
>>Date: Saturday, March 9, 2013, 1:29 PM
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>> 
>>John,
>>We need your help again. We're pushing hard on the CISPA snooping bill, CFAA reform, and an investigation into Aaron's prosecution.  
>>But it's your generosity is what's kept us going during these tough times.
>>Please click here if you're able to chip in 5, 10, or 20 dollars so we can keep on fighting. 
>>We're planning a huge rally in Boston for early April, to coincide with what would have been Aaron's trial there.  We're hoping to turn out at least 1,000 people to pressure DOJ and MIT to come clean about the dirty details of their persecution of Aaron. We need to raise $15,000 this month in support of that effort.
>>The investigation into the prosecution is moving forward -- and widening.
>>BOSTON GLOBE: INQUIRY WIDENS INTO SWARTZ PROSECUTION
>>“Are we using excess prosecution, excess claims in order to force guilty pleas?” the California Republican [Darrell Issa] asked. “Or are we trying to genuinely offer punishment fitting the crime? In the case of Aaron Swartz, it’s very clear that they were trying to send a message to people other than Aaron Swartz with what they were willing to offer him and what he was charged with.”
>>Even worse, we believe that there was substantial malfeasance by the prosecutors in Aaron's case -- we'll be making more noise about that later this week.
>>But we need to raise those $15,000 to have the organizers and communications teams on hand to make it all happen. 
>>Please click here if you're able to chip in 5, 10, or 20 dollars so we can send a message to law enforcement.
>>We're building out a strong bipartisan and business coalition in support of reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which stifles innovation and -- according to law enforcement -- makes felons out of untold millions of Americans.  
>>The government has said that under the CFAA violating a website's terms of service -- say, lying about your height on a dating site, or starting a Facebook profile for your cat -- is a felony.
>>Meaning we're all sitting ducks if we end up in the sites of some prosecutor with an axe to grind. That's stark, abhorrent evidence of the corruption of our criminal justice system.  
>>We need your help as we try to fix it, in what small ways we can.
>>Please click here if you're able to chip in 5, 10, or 20 dollars so we can send a message to law enforcement and reform the CFAA.
>> Thanks, as always.
>>-Demand Progress 
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