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/ keybase.md
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June 9, 2020 15:12
January 3, 2020
Dear AJLA Stakeholders:
I have been fortunate to work at Advancing Justice Los Angeles for the last 17 years. As I depart, I wanted to share some observations and words of encouragement with staff and stakeholders.
To begin, this letter is not accusatory in nature: I believe most folks were doing the best they could with the tools, skills, and information at their disposal. I know, for myself, there were many missteps I made during my time at AJLA in terms of personal interactions and self-righteousness. Using this letter as a cudgel misses the point: this letter is an invitation to clarify some details and also for all us all to do better (myself included) moving forward.
The crisis Advancing Justice Los Angeles is going through was completely foreseeable. What was not foreseeable was the extent of the crisis and how the response to the crisis on all sides devalued people who should have leveraged the crisis as an opportunity to find life affirming solutions. Instead, it has left the orga
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/ ManagementIsNotLeadership.md
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June 5, 2020 10:02
I'm leaving an organization that is in severe crisis: financial stability has replaced mission driven work and interpersonal relations are at an all time low. Some fellow managers have asked me for some resources and I'm going to share them in this gist.
I'm not an expert at organizational development or wellness: I'm only sharing things that I hope are helpful for mission driven organizations in crisis. We need to figure out how to reduce the harm that is very present in mission driven work/orgs...and often keep being perpetrated by people in management roles.
- While it's from the NYT, this article does invite small changes. To me, small changes matter because in organizational formations, change has to happen at a glacial pace so that folks are left behind or trown under proverbial buses. The article is here.
- Generally, the mission driven sector doesn't invest in Human Resources.
The biggest threat to abolition of the #StalkerState is reform movements who will settle for a kinder, gentler warden/stalker. Most legislative solutions fall into this trap which normalizes surveillance. We should never let the violence of surveillance become normal.
- A Puerto Rican entering a US border
- A black person during the great migrations
- Natives far from their ancesteral land
kmontenegro
/ VineDeloria.md
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June 29, 2018 22:59
Quote I used to contextualize the stalker state (a concept rooted in the work of @stoplapdspying) when invited to speak at CU Boulder SoL
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. Today with an information "superhighway" now looming on the horizon, we are told that a lack of access to information will doom people to a life of meaninglessness -- and poverty. As we look around and observe modern industrial society, however, there is no question that information, in and of itself, is useless and that as more data is generated, ethical and moral decisions are taking on a fantasy dimension in which a "lack of evidence to indict" is the moral equivalent of the good deed.
-- Vine Deloria CU Boulder SoL Class of 1970
kmontenegro
/ June30OpenLetter.md
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June 29, 2018 20:30
An open letter from the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition to organizers of the June 30 Keep Families Together event related to obeying law enforcement as a condition of attendance.
“It’s Our Moral Obligation to Disobey Unjust Laws” - Dr. Martin Luther King
After the election of Donald Trump, a number of individuals and groups convened to identify next steps for community self-defense. That group issued a set of principles of community self-defense which ground this open letter.
This letter springs from our concern about the criminalization of dissent and our desire to avoid putting folks at risk when they are making righteous demands from those in power. In the event guidelines for a June 30, 2018 event co-sponsored by MoveOn, CHILRA, ACLU-SoCal, and others, there is an expectation or understanding that folks who attend that event will not only obey law enforcement but will also cooperate with law enforcement if told to do so by event organizers (marshals). To us, this is dangerous and unacceptable.
Please click on [Facebook Event Page link](https://m.facebook.com/events/223447
kmontenegro
/ MT-Visioning.md
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June 25, 2018 23:50
A 5-minute visioning write from a movement technologist convergence.
We are sitting in a green space. As we're sitting, we are talking about the "good old days" when the ancients had their attention and relationships with the planet disrupted by technology. We awkwardly laugh because we see, understand, and sypathize with the movement techies of old. How they were used to working in and begrudgingly accepted autsterity culture. How they accepted such a political and material reality is baffling. We ask ourselves why it took them and their comrades so long to get free...especially since the technology was sufficiently developed to advance their struggle. The awkward laughter turns to silence as we watch the sun set and one of the many moons begins to bathe us in its light.
kmontenegro
/ HomelessCountData2018.md
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May 31, 2018 22:11
Los Angeles Community Action Network
May 31, 2018
"To be uncounted is to be unseen – to be left out of funding, planning and implementing programs to combat homelessness." -Economic Roundtable
kmontenegro
/ KTown-LiesAndBribes.md
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May 29, 2018 22:21
Shelter housing in Koreatown: Shelter Cloaked in Criminalization
LA CAN is supportive of creating more shelter beds in the City of Los Angeles. Our support, however, is
contingent upon several recommendations and demands; is in no way meant to minimize our fight to
secure the human right to housing in Los Angeles, housing, not shelters, is the only way to end
homelessness; and, will never be blindly given in exchange for the criminalization and incarceration of
Black bodies. Mayor Garcetti's proposed "shelter plan" does just that.
It doesn't take much work to figure out the real intention behind the proposed plan. In reality, it takes
more work to ignore the obvious as Mayor Garcetti has stated his goal time and time again. But for
some reason, many Angelenos still have a blind allegiance towards his leadership - even though there is
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/ MiscSecQuestions3.md
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April 20, 2018 04:03
Notes/suggestions for some comrades
This captures my opinion related to some security questions. These questions are somewhat specific but are absent considerations like scalablity, language access, comfort with technology, and risk assessment. Therefore, these are blanket responses that may or may not provide value to the reader/end-user.
The response to this is always contingent on what risk one is facing but, generally, RiseUp is an amazing provider with good politics, relatively secure infrastructure, and a deep commitment to protect their users. That said, RiseUp does not offer the features which many users take for granted in both interface and functionality. I am not overly concerned about their warrant canary situation because they have taken the opportunity to move towards a zero-knowledge framework so that this concern can be largely put to bed.
Services like ProtonMail and Tutanota are very good BUT us
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