Hi, Miguel, et al.:
What would you like me to do help improve public awareness in the US
of what we think are needed reforms of sections 230 and 702?
I'm home based in Kansas City, USA. I can help organize events with
an in-person audience in Kansas City, available anywhere in the world
with an adequate Internet connection with excerpts broadcasted on a
local community radio station and distributed internationally via the
Pacifica Radio Network. I've also done research relative to these two
issues.[1] I've also produced a radio interview with Matthew Connelly
about his (2023) book "The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals
About America’s Top Secrets," in which he says that US government
threatens US and international security, by encouraging government
leaders to clandestinely provoke actions by foreign entities that can
then be denounced as "unprovoked" to stamped the US and coalitions of
the willing into counterproductive uses of military force.[2]
Thanks,
Spencer Graves, PhD
p.s. I'm the President of Friends of Community Media, which has asked me
to try to organize events like this. I'm also a journalist with 90.1 FM,
KKFI.org, Kansas City Community Radio, which is part of the Pacifica
Radio Network of over 200 community radio stations, most in the US but
some in Canada and Europe, and I'm and occasional contributor to their
"Sprouts: Radio from the Grassroots" series. I'm also a Vietnam-era
veteran carrying moral injury from my time in the US Air Force,
including my personal complicity in the "Napalm girl" story.[3]
[1]
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Information_is_a_public_good:_Designing_experiments_to_improve_government
https://sanjosepeace.org/restrict-secrecy-more-than-data-collection/
[2]
https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/does-us-government-secrecy-threaten-national-security/
[3]
https://peaceworkskc.org/a-modest-proposal-for-israel-palestine/
On 7/3/24 04:03, Miguelángel Verde wrote:
Hello, everyone!
The third Global Advocacy quarterly newsletter
<https://mailchi.mp/wikimedia/global-advocacy-newsletter-june-2024> is out!
In this issue we explained why the Foundation and Wikimedia affiliates
published an open letter calling UN Member States to commit to
protecting public interest spaces on the internet like the Wikimedia
projects.
We also shared:
* Interviews where we've explained the role in Wikipedia's existence of
Section 230,
* How more than 20 years of lessons learned shape the public comments we
submit to international institutions and governments in relation to AI,
* Why we call to reform Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA) in the US,
* And more!
Sign up to the newsletter
<https://mailchi.mp/wikimedia/global-advocacy-policy-newsletter> and
please share it with your network, so we can provide more people across
the world with quarterly updates on the work that the Wikimedia
Foundation and communities are doing to protect the right to free and
open knowledge for everyone, everywhere!
Cheers, enjoy the reading, and have a nice day!
Miguel
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:05 AM Franziska Putz <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Happy midweek everyone,
Please allow me to draw your attention one more time to the official
WMF Global Advocacy Newsletter - we just published our second
edition
<https://mailchi.mp/wikimedia/global-advocacy-newsletter-mar-2024>.
Some highlights include:
* Our thinking around issues like children's rights online
* Updates about the EU Digital Services Act, regulation in France,
the recent US Supreme Court hearings
* A list of upcoming events on our radar.
The newsletter is meant for Wikimedians and external audiences,
whereas this listserv is for information sharing and
coordination within the Wikimedia movement. It is quarterly. We hope
it will help our movement influence stakeholders so they think about
how laws and regulations impact public interest and community-led
online spaces, like Wikimedia projects.
Enjoy the read and have a lovely rest of your week,
Ziski
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 11:34 AM Franziska Putz <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear all,
I am thrilled to share news of the launch of the*first issue*
<https://mailchi.mp/wikimedia/global-advocacy-newsletter-nov-2023> of the new
WMF Global Advocacy newsletter. You can sign up to receive future newsletters at***this
link* <https://mailchi.mp/wikimedia/global-advocacy-policy-newsletter>.
This project is inspired by our desire to share the Wikimedia
Foundation's unique policy perspectives on pressing tech
regulation issues with public audiences, including policymakers,
Wikimedians, and free knowledge advocates. Our goal is to help
these interested groups better understand how we think about the
internet and digital rights, and how laws and regulations can
and should be shaped to not only protect public interest and
community-led online spaces, like Wikimedia projects, but also
to help them flourish.
The newsletter will be emailed quarterly. Please feel free to
share the subscription link
<https://mailchi.mp/wikimedia/global-advocacy-policy-newsletter> with
your networks.
Happy reading!
Ziski
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
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