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SN On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Sheila Parks <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks, Shava > > I will keep on watching for your posts > > I am reading this list now at any rate, so should see it easily > > Sheila > > > At 02:21 PM 1/13/2013, you wrote: > > 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 > > > Sheila Parks, Ed.D. > Founder > Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots > Watertown, MA 02472 > 617 744 6020 > DEMOCRACY IN OUR HANDS > www.handcountedpaperballots.org > [email protected] > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > > -- > > Shava Nerad > [email protected] > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > 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 > [email protected] > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Shava Nerad [email protected]
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