Sheffield for Democracy are holding election hustings on Thursday 23 April for Sheffield Central.
This meetup is for Open Rights Group Sheffield supporters to coordinate attending and asking questions on digital rights issues that are important to them.
We want to know the candidates views on issues like surveillance, internet censorship. copyright reform, data protection and any other digital rights issues that are important to you.
If you're planning to attend the hustings then please sign up here to let other ORG Shef members know that you're going.
The event will be chaired by Sylvia Johnson (Emeritus Professor at Sheffield Hallam University), and the five panellists will be as follows:
Sheffield Central PPC for the Labour Party, Paul BlomfieldSheffield Central PPC for UKIP, Dr Dominic CookSheffield Central PPC for the Green Party, Dr Jillian CreasySheffield Central PPC for the Liberal Democrats, Cllr Joe Ottenand a representative from the Conservative party - Stephen Carstens.
You can find details of all the candidates standing in Sheffield Central at: https://yournextmp.com/constituency/65957/sheffield-central)
The hustings is organised by Sheffield for Democracy: http://reformgroups.net/sheffield/blog
Sheffield for Democracy are holding election hustings on Thursday 23 April for Sheffield Central.
This meetup is for Open Rights Group Sheffield members to coordinate attending and asking questions on digital rights issues that are important to them.
If you're planning to attend the hustings then please sign up here to let other ORG Shef members know that you're going.
The event will be chaired by Sylvia Johnson (Emeritus Professor at Sheffield Hallam University), and the five panellists will be as follows:
Sheffield Central PPC for the Labour Party, Paul BlomfieldSheffield Central PPC for UKIP, Dr Dominic CookSheffield Central PPC for the Green Party, Dr Jillian CreasySheffield Central PPC for the Liberal Democrats, Cllr Joe Ottenand a representative from the Conservative party - Stephen Carstens.
'Mass Surveillance, Liberty and Activism' with ORG Director Jim Killock
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How can we work together to stop mass surveillance?
ORG's Executive Director Jim Killock will give a talk followed by a Q&A with questions from the audience about mass surveillance, liberty and activism. He'll say why mass surveillance is a danger to democracy and how we can work together to curb it. More information about our speaker here: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/people/staff#Jim
Open Rights Group is a non-profit campaigning for digital rights across the UK, we focus on: ineffective internet filters, censorship, copyright and mass surveillance. More info on our campaigns: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/
Do please let us know if you can make it so we have an idea of numbers and if you realise you can't make it, update on the event so others on the waiting list can attend.
This event is free and open to the public. You don't need to be an ORG member to attend, just someone interested in an open and free internet.
If you don't want to use Meetup you can email [masked] to RSVP.
Film Screening: The Internet's Own Boy - The story of Aaron Swartz
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For our December meetup we'll be showing the film 'The Internet's Own Boy' depicting the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.
The film showing will be upstairs in the loft of the Eten cafe in their purpose built film screening room.
Please RSVP to reserve your place. If you don't want to use meetup then you can instead email [masked] to tell us that you're coming.
The cafe has a licensed bar upstairs with alcoholic drinks, soft drinks, tea and coffee. Food can be ordered from the bistro menu. Last orders for food at 8pm.
Swartz co-authored the RSS web feed format when he was 14 and was one of the early architects of Creative Commons. He was a developer of the Internet Archives' Open Library and one of the co-creators of the online news site Reddit. Swartz founded the online activism group Demand Progress, which was a critical part of the successful campaign blocking the SOPA and PIPA Internet censorship bills. Swartz was also a committed activist for the cause of open access to government and government-funded information.
In 2011, Swartz was accused of downloading millions of academic articles from the online archive JSTOR, allegedly without "authorization" even though his access to JSTOR through MIT's open network was authorized by JSTOR's contract with MIT. He faced 13 felony counts of hacking and wire fraud, including some under the draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). After two years of fighting the charges, Swartz tragically took his own life in January 2013.
Monthly meet-ups for anyone interested in digital rights: copyright, freedom of expression, censorship, parody, privacy, open data, free software... see the Open Rights Group website for the kind of issues we discuss.
You can join the Open Rights Group if you like but you don't have to be a member to come to our meet-ups.
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