I was thinking the MIT meeting would be an evening sometime later in the week, but I wanted to see who showed up Tuesday, and if I could get a small committee together so maybe a later announcement?
I wanted to see if I could get an MIT person who could schedule a room. yrs, SN On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Sheila Parks <[email protected]>wrote: > Thank you, Shava, for organizing a vigil. > > I work on Mon and Tues > > When do you think you will do the one at MIT or wiil that be right after > the Courthouse one on Tuesday? > > And thank you to all of you for discussing this tragedy > > I don't often comment on this list but I am so glad to be here for this > discussion > > I do blame MIT and the US Attorneys > > Sheila > > > At 11:23 AM 1/13/2013, you wrote: > > This is what I understand of Aaron's action. >> >> First, to be clear, JSTOR settled with Aaron last summer. >> >> Aaron was trying to raise consciousness around their model. JSTOR does >> not pay out a penny to the author or the author's host institution. They >> do not pay royalties to the research funders - often the taxpayer, so maybe >> you and me. In other circumstances this would make the work public domain. >> >> The only money goes to the paper journal publisher. That is the firewall >> consortium JSTOR represents. >> >> That is the message Aaron meant to amplify with what he likely saw as >> political/ethical art performance civil disobedience. >> >> Personally I think if he had not been on federal radar for organizing >> SOPA/PIPA nothing more would have come from it as a Harvard-connected white >> academic of a certain status. >> >> But as it is, he faced seven figures in damages and three decades in hard >> time even after he settled with JSTOR. >> >> This is the way my family has observed activists attempted to be >> neutralized by the immune system of the federal government since Eugene >> Debs. I have three generations of witness. >> >> My instinct is that when you see resources expended out of proportion, >> look for the proportionate end. Aaron was not being chilled for his >> potential in copying files, I suspect. He just handed them something for >> which he could be charged. >> >> We can't let it go without response just because it is classic and >> chronic. I am organizing a vigil at 1 Courthouse in Boston 2pm Tuesday, >> probably small, and we'll follow on from that at MIT. >> >> Federal Prosecutor Ortiz does not seem like a monster in general, and >> there is hope for some good nonviolent ends out of this. >> >> Feedback welcome. >> >> Yrs, >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/**mailman/listinfo/**liberationtech<https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech> >> > > Sheila Parks, Ed.D. > Founder > Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots > Watertown, MA 02472 > 617 744 6020 > DEMOCRACY IN OUR HANDS > www.handcountedpaperballots.**org <http://www.handcountedpaperballots.org> > sheila@**handcountedpaperballots.org <[email protected]> > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/**mailman/listinfo/**liberationtech<https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech> > -- Shava Nerad [email protected]
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