21/04/2013

Email Encryption Workshop

Email Encryption for Beginners…

Saturday May 25th 4:00pm

The first of a monthly (last Saturday of each month) computer workshop aiming to provide jargon free workshops on useful programs. No experience necessary, but please if you have a laptop bring it along.

A non encrypted e-mail message sent through the Internet is like a postcard without an envelope: postpeople, neighbours and anybody else who can put their hands on it will easily read the message you’ve written. Unlike a post card an email is copied (rather then moved) to many different computers on it’s travels. All of these computers owners we can’t possibly trust and know. This makes me feel uncomfortable and is not necessary with simple email encryption.

When you use a website (like Facebook, Gmail)  to send a message you have little to no control at all over the delivery process, it’s like asking someone you’ve not meet to go and read your postcard loudly near the front door of your mates house!

Certain organization (e.g. journalist, unions, activists, etc) have a responsibility  to transmit sensitive messages securely and currently do not. Don’t think what does this one email say about me (or it’s recipient) think rather when examined on mass over time (most emails are stored indefinitely these days) what does this reveal about the way we live.

Still not convinced see this brilliant summary.

Beginning with a short (10 minutes) explanation on why email encryption ought to be common place. Followed by talking through the use of enigmail add-on for Thunderbird that makes using GPG  easy.

The aim is to by the end of the workshop to be able to email anyone else who makes it to the workshop with out the email being interceptable by a third party.

It would save time if you had Thunderbird setup and receiving your emails. If you already use email encryption and want to help or share your key please come by.

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12/04/2013

Secrets and Spies.

Pre-launch event for the Radical History Zone of Bristol Anarchist Bookfair

3pm – 6pm

13th of Apr

The Radical History Zone of the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair will get off to a cracking start as author Eveline Lubbers shines a light on corporate and police spying on activists – the topic of her new book, Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark.

In the best tradition of radical Investigative research. Secret Manoeuvres includes revelations from the Economic League’s blacklisting of trade unionists, the McLibel case to the high-profile exposure of police spy Mark Kennedy. Using, we are promised, exclusive access to previously confidential sources, independent investigator Eveline will share some secrets at Hydra.

For more information about the book see here: http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745331850

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21/03/2013

4-5: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Race, Class and Gender in the 60s U.S.

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair.

Roger Ball (BRHG)

Radical History Zone.

20th of April.

4pm-5pm

This talk is based upon a series of books that have recently appeared covering the hidden history of the white working class radical community groups who formed the ‘Rainbow Coalition’ with the Black Panthers, Young Lords, Native American and Japanese American revolutionary groups in 1969. The white radical organisations comprised displaced ‘Southern’ white working class people who were challenging racism, sexism and capitalism from a class perspective in the deeply segregated cities of the North and East such as Chicago, Philadelphia and New York. The FBI operation to smash this alliance was launched three days after the first meeting in Chicago in 1969.

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21/03/2013

12-1: British armed forces’ strikes and mutinies in 1918-19: a radical history project for the anniversary of World War I

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair.

Roger Ball (BRHG)

Radical History Zone.

20th of April.

12-1pm

 

BRHG’s very own Roger Ball will kick off the afternoon with the conveniently forgotten history of British armed forces’ post WWI strikes and mutinies. Roger reveals how the mass refusal of troops across Europe included expressions of militant dissent in Britain. Such widespread revolt led to the collapse of the Allied invasion of Soviet Russia. The second part of the meeting will discuss what we can do to disrupt attempts by Cameron and the Tories to spin the 100th anniversary of the War’s outbreak next year. Never mind their flagging credentials; radical historians can start the resistance right here!

 

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16/03/2013

5-onwards: ‘Libres’: Songs of the Spanish Revolution by Pilar Lopez

Pilar Lopez Libres picture

Bristol Anarchist Bookfair.

Radical History Zone.

20th of April.

5pm-?

 

Pilar Lopez’s performance about the Spanish Social Revolution of 1936 aims to draw inspiration from these amazing times, sharing the beauty and relevance of those events and making links with what’s currently happening in Spain.

In 1936, after a partially unsuccessful military coup and by popular demand, the libertarian unions took control of the organisation of society in many parts of Spain. In no time large portions of land and industry had been collectivised and belonged to the workers. This short-lived and fascinating revolution inspired the whole world …and can continue to inspire us as we walk our paths working for and dreaming of equality and justice.

From the birth of the M 15 movement (also known as the Indignad@s movement) in May 2011, and as a response to a massive social and economic crisis, large numbers of people have been, and are still, engaging in horizontal grassroots organising, committed to giving a voice to everyone and learning to use consensus decision making effectively. They have been engaging in creative direct action to challenge this oppressive system and bring solutions to increasingly urgent social problems such as the repossession of homes (which has been leading to suicides), 50% of youth unemployment ( and growing), loss of health care for immigrants and the poor, increasing poverty, attacks on reproductive rights and police brutality. The vibrancy and momentum of the movement is exciting and encouraging; solidarity grows as the crisis deepens. Many are not waiting around to get a job but engaging directly to bring change to their neighbourhoods and communities.

“Libres” is a historical presentation which includes a concert and a lecture, story-telling and beautiful folk songs written and sung in those days as well as some of Pilar’s own.
It covers the events of the Spanish Revolution, bringing together the music of the freedom fighters of the 1930s with images and poetry.

Pilar is also touring in London, Edinburgh and Madrid.

For further information see: pilarawa.wordpress.com

 

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