[liberationtech] urgent help needed - tools for organising distributed mass protests

[Julian Oliver]

..on Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:55:34AM +0300, Yishay Mor wrote:
> yeah, thanks. as I said - I'm looking for advice that doesn't include lines
> like "deploy that on a server and you're good to go". the organisation I'm
> working with doesn't have access to server space, nor the capacity to
> deploy and maintain services on one. But I'll make a note of this in case
> something comes up.

If you want something that won't be shut down in a snap, that is 'activist
ready', you will often hit a point where self-deployment is needed (ideally in
Switzerland or Iceland). Even E2EE platforms like KeyBase are hapless against
the federal investigations and warrants for metadata sharing, not to mention
company buyouts (as Zoom did, for instance). 

Once a quality, secured, community-owned and run platform is up thousands can and
will use it, with ease, and the community will prosper and bloom. I have done
this and seen this many times, a key part of my sysadmin work and support of
at-risk groups.

Cheers,

Julian


> On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 02:58, Julian Oliver <julian at julianoliver.com> wrote:
> 
> > A censorship resistant alternative to Facebook events, with much more
> > atop, is:
> >
> >     https://joinmobilizon.org/
> >
> > Deploy that on a server and you're good to go.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julian
> >
> > ..on Mon, May 17, 2021 at 09:53:53AM -0400, Kevin Shockey wrote:
> > > To start I'll assume we're talking cell phones, and maybe some servers
> > and
> > > WiFi. Do we know more?
> > >
> > > Distribution and setup could be a simple front end application
> > distributed
> > > with the install package. Which I believe for phones just points it to
> > > where the app can be downloaded (local server). This install image can be
> > > shared easily between phones.
> > >
> > > I seem to remember some lightweight apps somewhere, but I can't remember
> > or
> > > locate the site just now.
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 9:34 AM Yishay Mor <yishaym at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello LibTechers,
> > > >
> > > > I'm sure I don't need to tell you about the situation in Israel /
> > > > Palestine these days. I'm involved with one of the leading anti-war /
> > > > anti-occupation / pro-coexistence organisations here. They have been
> > > > organising joint Jewish-Arab protests across the country, and are
> > looking
> > > > for technological tools that will help them coordinate and mobilse.
> > From
> > > > what I understand, the requirements are:
> > > >  * easy to setup and maintain. when I say easy, I mean as in "click
> > this
> > > > button", not "sudo apt-get this package and then run make". they have
> > > > literally zero tech competence.
> > > > * allows users to:
> > > > ++ initiate a time and place for a protest event
> > > > ++ sign up for whatsapp / signal / telegram updates in their region
> > > > ++ find information about local protest events and initiatives
> > > > ++ share information with friends
> > > > ++ report incidents (e.g. attacks from pro-violence mobs) and share
> > media
> > > > from events.
> > > >
> > > > any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Yishay
> > > >
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