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                                title="Video & Media Activism
                                Bootcamp">Video & Media Activism
                                Bootcamp</a></span></h2>
                          <p>DMC III: Friday afternoon, October 25 -
                            Sunday, October 27, 2013 @ <a
                              href="http://digitalmediaconference.org/2013/node/12">Lesley
                              University</a>. It brings together
                            grassroots activists, trade unionists,
                            techies, academics and thinkers for a
                            weekend on hands-on, practical workshops and
                            big-picture thinking. <a
                              href="http://digitalmediaconference.org/2013/node/18">Listen
                              to the 5-minute backgrounder/slideshow
                              here</a>.</p>
                          <p>Standard registration is $35; $10 for
                            students and low income<br>
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                                    <p>New York-based artist and
                                      filmmaker, <strong><a
                                          href="http://chloesmolarski.com/">Chloe
                                          Smolarski</a></strong> plans
                                      to open the Digital Media
                                      Conference with a special workshop
                                      on how grassroots movements can
                                      use images to tell their stories.
                                      She'll have you working with
                                      readily available tools in this
                                      workshop. Chloe welcomes
                                      participation by beginners; she
                                      notes that "<em>no</em> technical
                                      knowledge" is needed. Just bring
                                      your smartphone! [At link above]
                                      check out her trailer to the
                                      video, <em>Admissions</em>, which
                                      builds on the stories of
                                      undocumented students claiming
                                      their voice and their rights.<br>
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                                title="Opening Plenary to Detail
                                "Unfreedom"">Opening Plenary
                                to Detail "Unfreedom"</a></span></h2>
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                                    <h3>Speakers Connect NSA,
                                      Repression, Deportations,
                                      Surveillance, Mass Incarceration
                                      & Over-Zealous Prosecutions</h3>
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                                      Among the conference's opening
                                      speakers are three seasoned
                                      activists: Gregg Housh, Kade
                                      Crockford and Alfredo Lopez. In
                                      their turn, each has had to
                                      confront the global surveillance
                                      and "national security" state. <strong><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/occupy-wall-street-anonymous-connection_n_1021665.html"
                                          style="line-height: 1.538em;">Gregg
                                          Housh</a> </strong>is
                                      popularly known as a public face
                                      of the Anonymous movement; <strong><a
href="http://conference.freepress.net/presenter/102150/kade-crockford"
                                          style="line-height: 1.538em;">Kade
                                          Crockford</a> </strong>challenges

                                      the growing surveillance state and
                                      defends core First and Fourth
                                      Amendment and due process rights
                                      in her work at the Massachusetts
                                      ACLU; <strong><a
                                          href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Lopez"
                                          style="line-height: 1.538em;">Alfredo
                                          Lopez</a></strong>'s May
                                      First/People Link powered tech
                                      systems for the #Occupy movement
                                      and today resolutely defends the
                                      tech infrastructure of hundreds of
                                      organizations against incursions. </p>
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                                title="Lightning Talk on the DMC">Lightning
                                Talk on the DMC</a></span></h2>
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                                    <p>The conference's full story in 5
                                      minutes!  Check out <span
                                        style="line-height: 1.538em;">Digital
                                        Media Conference organizer <a
                                          href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Pramas">Jason
                                          Pramas</a>' presentation </span><span
                                        style="line-height: 1.538em;">at
                                        <a
                                          href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/">Software
                                          Freedom Day</a></span><span
                                        style="line-height: 1.538em;">!</span><span
                                        style="line-height: 1.538em;"> </span><span
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                              class="art-postheadericon"><a
                                href="http://www.digitalmediaconference.org/2013/node/17"
                                title="Alfredo Lopez on the NSA:
                                "They rip the locked doors off all
                                internet privacy..."">Alfredo Lopez
                                on the NSA: "They rip the locked doors
                                off all internet privacy..."</a></span></h2>
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                                        height="112">Writing in <a
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/09/the-nsa-has-effectively-destroyed-internet-privacy/">Counterpunch</a>,
                                      <a href="http://www.mayfirst.org">May
                                        First/People Link</a> director
                                      and confirmed Digital Media
                                      Conference plenary speaker <a
                                        href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Lopez">Alfredo
                                        Lopez</a> surveys the most
                                      recent revelations about the
                                      National Security Agency (NSA) and
                                      comes to the sad but uncontestable
                                      conclusion that, "[NSA's programs]
                                      rip the locked doors off all
                                      Internet privacy and make the
                                      application of Constitutional
                                      rights impossible." Alfredo who
                                      will be a plenary speaker at our
                                      conference, illustrates this by
                                      looking at how the NSA has
                                      undermined the (no-longer-so) <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer">Secure Sockets
                                        Layer</a> (or SSL) protocol. It
                                      is something that we all depend on
                                      when we log into our Gmail or
                                      Outlook.com email services, or
                                      when we connect to our banks, or
                                      buy tickets online [notice how the
                                      "http" in our browsers' address
                                      bars switch to "https" when we
                                      have a "secure" connection].  By
                                      building "backdoors" into
                                      encryption protocols, the NSA not
                                      only lets itself in and allows its
                                      various sub-contractors and their
                                      temp employees in, but also leaves
                                      the door open for other big
                                      entities with sufficient
                                      resources, governments, big
                                      corporations, and organized crime.
                                      We look forward to exploring this
                                      further at the conference with
                                      Alfredo.</p>
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                              class="art-postheadericon"><a
                                href="http://www.digitalmediaconference.org/2013/node/13"
                                title=" Michelle Alexander Connects the
                                Dots!"> Michelle Alexander Connects the
                                Dots!</a></span></h2>
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                                datatype="xsd:dateTime">Wed, 08/28/2013
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                                    <h3>Reminds Us that Mass
                                      Incarceration, the Surveillance
                                      State, & Militarism are Part
                                      of the Same Story</h3>
                                    <p>A recent FB post by renowned
                                      activist-writer-lawyer, Michelle
                                      Alexander (<a
                                        href="http://newjimcrow.com/">The
                                        New Jim Crow</a>), aligns
                                      completely with our conference's
                                      objectives. She reminds us that it
                                      is no longer possible to adopt the
                                      "staying in my lane" mentality.<br>
                                    </p>
                                    <p>Full details, registration at <br>
                                    </p>
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                                        class="art-postheadericon"><a
                                          href="http://www.digitalmediaconference.org/2013/node/43"
                                          title="Video & Media
                                          Activism Bootcamp">Video &
                                          Media Activism Bootcamp</a></span></h2>
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