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Get your ham radio license on Nov. 2

Get your ham radio license on Nov. 2

We're hosting a PaRTEE for future hams! PaRTEE virtual Ham Cram-style study session Monday, 11/2/2020 9:30a-1:30p We're hosting a study session next Monday for folks who want to get their technician (entry-level) license! We picked this day because we know some people

Post-election resilience

Post-election resilience

We've been busy surviving COVID-19, moving to multiple places, and organizing and protesting for Black lives and for abolition, and generally trying to deal with everything that 2020 has thrown at us (dry lightning storms and devastating fires in August? A SCOTUS conservative super majority? You sure want

Encryption isn't forever

Encryption isn't forever

Please don't assume that Signal conversations are safe; they aren't. Encryption is, at best, safe for now. Encrypted data can always be saved to be decrypted later, and it's reasonable to assume that at least some of it is. Here's a poem

Digital security Q & As and workshop

Digital Security

Digital security Q & As and workshop

While we work on our next digital security workshop, we wanted to offer some tips from the last one and also make ourselves available if your group or org have questions. We'd love to talk to you!

Come get your Ham Radio license with us!

Come get your Ham Radio license with us!

Join us for some "Hams on" training! Our next Ham Radio Basics session on Thursday, March 12, at 6pm in preparation for the March 14th Ham Cram. Come to one or both events! Please email hello@partee4justice.org for details.

FurCon 2020!

#LatePost! #Flashback to mid January when Berry Pie (aka Jen-Mei) and Gecke (aka Loke) collaborated with Fireline Coyote (aka Jeff) on a hands-on, QTPOC-centered Intro to Ham radio panel: Get on the Furnet! at the Further Confusion Conference [https://www.furtherconfusion.org/] (unfortunately, Jen-Mei was out sick so didn'

End of Year Fundraiser

End of Year Fundraiser

Friends, Family, and Community, Jen-Mei and Loke here - we are excited to share a new project we’ve been cooking up the last six months - Power and Resilience Through Experiential Education (PaRTEE) [https://partee4justice.org/]. In our journeys as social justice activists, we’ve realized how we and

Societal malfunctions in emergencies Part 1 (Spoiler alert - Lyft doesn't work!?!)

Societal malfunctions in emergencies Part 1 (Spoiler alert - Lyft doesn't work!?!)

The other week Jen-Mei hosted a gathering of folks from our shared communities to trade information we’ve collected to date about emergency preparedness and get a sense of what felt the most interesting/engaging/raw for folks. We talked about the fires and PG&E shut-offs in California.

(CERTified!)

Jen-Mei and Loke are now officially CERTified! (We passed our Community Emergency Response Team training!) The training, which was sponsored by the Alameda County Fire Department and consisted of two (very full) back-to-back Saturdays, reviewed leverage and cribbing (we can lift heavy, unliftable things off of people!), putting out (wastebasket-sized)

Power & Resilience Through Experiential Education

Power & Resilience Through Experiential Education

Loke Davis and I are starting a new organization to provide trainings to activists (in particular QTPOC and QTWOC) on various skills. We're starting with Ham Radio. We're launching the web site soon, but wanted to share here in the meantime. We're calling the

Anti-Displacement Hacker School

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Anti-Displacement Hacker School

Tech offers great opportunities, but when Bay Area tech companies import workers from other areas, they displace people currently living here. We want to help companies hire locally, benefit their communities, and make great apps.