| Subject: Fwd: Tunisia, Anonymous, and Project PM |
| From: Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> |
| Date: 1/19/11, 14:52 |
Here's the whole thing. I'm sending it on to you to keep you in the conversational loop and in the event that you want to contact her yourself:
Forwarded conversationSubject:
Tunisia, Anonymous, and Project PM
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From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
All-
As I've noted to some of you, we're now working heavily on Tunisian assistance programs intent on providing them with the tools they need to communicate securely and thereby establish new institutions capable of improving the political situation. We're working with a large number of Tunisians on this and I've also brought in some people outside of Project PM with experience in these matters, in addition to the thousands already involved through Anonymous. So far we've produced two documents which are being distributed among Tunisians both in-country and elsewhere, with the third and most important of these to be finished by Friday. I've also just been asked to do an op-ed for al-Jazeera on all of this, which presents an opportunity to recruit others for this effort as well as to reach additional Tunisians other than those we can reach through our informal networks. Our rally at NYC City Hall in April, where Glenn Greenwald, Gregg Housh, myself, and others will be speaking, will also serve as a boon to this effort. Altogether, this constitutes an unprecedented chance for free people to assist an oppressed population that could very well establish the freest state in the Arab world if they are given the tools to do so. Those who would like to assist or know others who might be helpful should check the following collaborative documents:
All of this might seem a bit romantic or even self-indulgent on the part of those who are assisting from the outside, but the Tunisians themselves are taking this very seriously, as they should. Knowing that a great number of people are not just thinking of them but also directly assisting them in a variety of ways has had a deep impact on those who have become aware of these efforts in the past two weeks. More importantly, the fact is that the environment now exists such that things like these are not only possible but even unambitious. If you yourself are busy or otherwise unable to provide your input or promote to those who can, please take a second to think if someone you know might be able to do so.
We'll be having our weekly Project PM meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 7:00 pm EST (New York time) on
irc.freenode.net, #projectpm. Remember, IRC is easy to use; e-mail me for a quick tutorial. This particular meeting will include a number of guests from the various Tunisian assistance programs and will be mostly dedicated to finishing the third guide and otherwise hammering out the details of the campaign in general, although we'll also discuss the software, website, and other long-term matters.
Thanks to everyone for their time and efforts.
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Regards,
Barrett Brown
512-560-2302
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From: Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:11 PM
To: Judith@globaladventure.us
Hello,
I just read your piece on Tunisia in the HuffPo and thought you might be interested in the information below. Please feel free to forward it to contacts you have in Tunisia in the event that you believe that it will be useful.
Best regards,
Jonathan Kundra
Paris, France
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From: Judie Fein <judie@globaladventure.us>
Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:40 PM
To: Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com>
jonathan, thank you so so much for sending this to me. i am being contacted by people all over tunisia. why don't you post something as a comment on my HuffPo blog so it will be seen by tunisians who are reading it. would that help?
all my best,
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From: Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:05 PM
To: Judie Fein <judie@globaladventure.us>
Thank you for responding for favorably, Judie - I'll consider your suggestion (what to say and how to phrase it?) and if I can figure out how to get some essential info across, I'll post it. I might also suggest doing this to Barrett Brown, the person who sent me the information I forwarded to you, and who's much more central to the various branches of the overall project.
Also, don't hesitate to contact Barrett yourself as well - he's a young, talented writer and someone you might want to maintain contact with relative to the situation in Tunisia. Here's a bit of his profile from The Guardian: