Teacher Solar Workshop
Added Teachers Solar Workshop to the positive change section, go check it out.
Blitz Week At Thompson’s Field
Just put up a new story about some more positive change Sietch members have done. Use this space as the comments section for that story.
Harry Belafonte My New Hero
So from what I had heard on NPR and CNN Harry Belafonte seemed to come off kind of like a left wing nut. But when you give him some time to talk (and use Wolf Blitzer as an idiotic sounding board) he comes off as a very intelligent and inspiring speaker. What I like best about Harry is that he doesn’t take one thing back. Unlike most idiots in the public sphere that are constantly saying stupid shit and then taking it back *cough* Pat Robertson *cough*, Harry pulls no punches and freely admits to saying everything he said. He seems truly genuine when he says that he is trying steer the conversation towards what no one is talking about. Namely how we are being fucked over by our government and how we are heading towards a fascist state.
Download this video here. (wmv)
Hope For The Future
Seems a couple youngins still got some fight in em. This made me very happy.
Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.
To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet.
Fortunately for him, it was a brief speech… followed by a panel discussion that basically ripped his argument a new asshole.And, as one of the people on the panel said,
“When you’re a law student, they tell you if say that if you can’t argue the law, argue the facts. They also tell you if you can’t argue the facts, argue the law. If you can’t argue either, apparently, the solution is to go on a public relations offensive and make it a political issue… to say over and over again “it’s lawful”, and to think that the American people will somehow come to believe this if we say it often enough.
In light of this, I’m proud of the very civil civil disobedience that was shown here today.”
- David Cole, Georgetown University Law ProfessorIt was a good day for dissent.
Vote Now While It Will Still Count
This is scary. Seems electronic voting is very easy to hack into and change results.
Four times over the past year Sancho told computer specialists to break in to his voting system. And on all four occasions they did, changing results with what the specialists described as relatively unsophisticated hacking techniques. To Sancho, the results showed the vulnerability of voting equipment manufactured by Ohio-based Diebold Election Systems, which is used by Leon County and many other jurisdictions around the country.
Sancho’s most recent demonstration was last month. Harri Hursti, a computer security expert from Finland, manipulated the “memory card” that records the votes of ballots run through an optical scanning machine.
Then, in a warehouse a few blocks from his office in downtown Tallahassee, Sancho and seven other people held a referendum. The question on the ballot:
“Can the votes of this Diebold system be hacked using the memory card?”
Two people marked yes on their ballots, and six no. The optical scan machine read the ballots, and the data were transmitted to a final tabulator. The result? Seven yes, one no.
“Was it possible for a disgruntled employee to do this and not have the elections administrator find out?” Sancho asked. “The answer was yes.”
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