February 10, 2014
For Immediate Release
Contact – The Day We Fight Back – Bay Area Convergence
Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director, Media Alliance (510) 684-6853, [email protected]
David Solnit, SF Bay Projection Department (510) 967-7377, [email protected]
The Day We Fight Back – Bay Area Convergence February 11th
Shining A Light on the NSA: Outdoor Projection at Room 641A, NSA Interception Site at 611 Folsom Street
San Francisco-On Tuesday February 11th at 6:00pm, Bay Area residents will join people all over the world outraged by revelations about National Security Agency and private corporations blanket electronic surveillance in The Day We Fight Back, a national online protest.
The San Francisco event will be at AT&T, 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco. The AT&T building houses an NSA interception room in Room 641A.
The convergence will feature giant projected visuals by the SF Projection Department, Bay Area Light Brigade human billboard signs, and a Stop Watching Us parachute. Speakers include Mark, Klein, a former AT&T technician who blew the whistle on the NSA facility in AT&T in 2006, and representatives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Restore The Fourth – Bay Area. Music provided by Michael Rufo.
In January 2012 , proposed SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation was met with the largest Internet protest in history. A year ago this month one of that movement’s leaders, Aaron Swartz, tragically passed away. Today we face a different threat, one that undermines the Internet, and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance. If Aaron were alive, he’d be on the front lines, fighting against a world in which governments observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action. Now, on the anniversary of Aaron’s passing, and in celebration of the win against SOPA and PIPA that he helped make possible, there is a new day of protest.
See more on Room 641A in this clip from the Keith Olbermann show on cable channel MS-NBC.
WHAT: Outdoor projection show and rally against mass surveillance
WHY: Ongoing unconstitutional activities by the National Security Administration
WHEN: Tuesday, February 11th at 6:00pm
WHO: Sponsored by The SF Projection Department, The Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Restore the Fourth Bay Area, the 99% Coalition and Media Alliance. With guest speakers whistleblower Mark Klein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
WHERE: Outside 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco (at 2nd street).