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surfacelevelspeck
Oct 1, 2008

communism's sleepiest soldier

Impermanent posted:

big ups to larry website for trying to push the NPC discussion of how to replace the NPC vacancy to a confidential side-conversation instead of the open NPC meeting that's accessible to the rank-and-file. way to promote buy-in from the membership.

lol can i still stand by my statement that the npc is garbage?

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big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib
I'm on keywiki under my Facebook pseudonym lol

Tricky Dick Nixon
Jul 26, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Ace of Baes posted:

everyone who needs to be added to op quote this with your state, I'm busy and lazy but I'll add y'all later tonight

OK

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Cops literally infiltrated the meetings of anti-war Quakers and the SEIU within the past ten years.

There's not much you can do to stop it at open meetings, it's just something you keep in mind.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/07/nation/na-cop-spy7
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/the-watchdogs-spy-cops-chicago-police-routinely-spied-on-protesters/

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
hi eric garland was saying yall get paid in bitcoins and vodka if yes how join?
@crasscrab on twitter if you wanna add me to a list
also

Ace of Baes posted:

everyone who needs to be added to op quote this with your state, I'm busy and lazy but I'll add y'all later tonight

fl

THS
Sep 15, 2017

Atrocious Joe posted:

Cops literally infiltrated the meetings of anti-war Quakers and the SEIU within the past ten years.

There's not much you can do to stop it at open meetings, it's just something you keep in mind.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/07/nation/na-cop-spy7
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/the-watchdogs-spy-cops-chicago-police-routinely-spied-on-protesters/

yeah I guess that's more what I mean - if you organize openly then there's really nothing you can do, what does opsec mean in practice? don't make facebook events or publish what you're doing? secret meetings in an organization where people demand accountability?

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Atrocious Joe posted:

There's not much you can do to stop it at open meetings, it's just something you keep in mind.

if none of us go then the only people at the meeting are cops

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Karl Barks posted:

what exactly are cops going to do if they "infiltrate" DSA? this is not antifa, we are not doing anything that could be considered illegal

breed division to sabotage the org

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


whoever made danny's linkedin was some sort of sabotage, either from another left group or cops

Tricky Dick Nixon
Jul 26, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Protecting your member's contact info from doxxers by having very good security about the info you collect and advising them to use more secure channels is something practical one can do. If you are planning direct action, keep it isolated and separated in organizer chains. Most groups that do that sort of thing already know what they're doing so its easy to plug in if you know somebody. Even a chapter as small as Green Country's has had some recent attempts to doxx and collect info from us, so it's good to be vigilant. There are a few fascists in town that are really incensed we're doing active action against them and doxxed them so, but it was all through face-to-face poo poo.

Grand Prize Winner
Feb 19, 2007


Karl Barks posted:

i just don't think with the way DSA is structured and the activities they perform, they'll be able to do much harm other than gather information on people. i don't know where DSA will be in several years tho. given the membership rates, if there is going to be a cop in the org, they probably already exist

if my predictions hold true then by 2020 we'll all be cops

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
someone is gonna craft a resolution banning law enforcement from the DSA at the next convention and we're gonna have to go through this whole thing again

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Karl Barks posted:

i just don't think with the way DSA is structured and the activities they perform, they'll be able to do much harm other than gather information on people. i don't know where DSA will be in several years tho. given the membership rates, if there is going to be a cop in the org, they probably already exist
they do

Atrocious Joe posted:

Cops literally infiltrated the meetings of anti-war Quakers and the SEIU within the past ten years.

There's not much you can do to stop it at open meetings, it's just something you keep in mind.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/07/nation/na-cop-spy7
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/the-watchdogs-spy-cops-chicago-police-routinely-spied-on-protesters/
^^^

BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 05:53 on Oct 3, 2017

Tricky Dick Nixon
Jul 26, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Last meeting we had an old guy that's a long time democratic activist here in town put up a recording device on the meeting. We asked him to stop, but some were pretty sure he was still recording things in like a voice memo type thing.

While we're sure he's not a cop, making sure all recording/documentation was consensual at meetings or official function was one of the first things we added to our draft for a Code of Conduct.

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

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Clapping Larry

Ace of Baes posted:

everyone who needs to be added to op quote this with your state, I'm busy and lazy but I'll add y'all later tonight

NY

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/01/could-americas-socialists-become-the-tea-party-of-the-left-215661
oh poo poo motherfuckers, buried in here is that dsa got 29,000 dues-paying members now.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


fermun posted:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/01/could-americas-socialists-become-the-tea-party-of-the-left-215661
oh poo poo motherfuckers, buried in here is that dsa got 29,000 dues-paying members now.

good article

Impermanent
Apr 1, 2010

Syndlig posted:

lol can i still stand by my statement that the npc is garbage?

Actually praxis and unity members grumbled at this until an old ( I forget her name) pointed out that this was against the by laws so they couldn't do it. Trust the process indeed.

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Karl Barks posted:

what exactly are cops going to do if they "infiltrate" DSA? this is not antifa, we are not doing anything that could be considered illegal
Are you that naive

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
Legality isn't a concern whenever the security state 'deals' with leftists. That only ever matters when protecting things like offshore bank accounts of rich people from prosecution. For politically motivated suppression, especially against the left, its 'anything you can get away with is okay'.

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
can't wait to get owned by huac2

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tricky Dick Nixon posted:

Last meeting we had an old guy that's a long time democratic activist here in town put up a recording device on the meeting. We asked him to stop, but some were pretty sure he was still recording things in like a voice memo type thing.

While we're sure he's not a cop, making sure all recording/documentation was consensual at meetings or official function was one of the first things we added to our draft for a Code of Conduct.

Unless you live in a two party state its kind of a pointless gesture

Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

safely sodomized posted:

whoever made danny's linkedin was some sort of sabotage, either from another left group or cops

From what we know now, I wouldn't be surprised if it was an Austin DSA member who knew he would have a meltdown if anyone questioned him about it.

BrainParasite
Jan 24, 2003


Ace of Baes posted:

everyone who needs to be added to op quote this with your state, I'm busy and lazy but I'll add y'all later tonight

NH

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Goon Danton posted:

From what we know now, I wouldn't be surprised if it was an Austin DSA member who knew he would have a meltdown if anyone questioned him about it.

yeah thats also possible

Ofaloaf
Feb 15, 2013

Ace of Baes posted:

everyone who needs to be added to op quote this with your state, I'm busy and lazy but I'll add y'all later tonight

I was asleep already, but MI.

Lumpy
Apr 26, 2002

La! La! La! Laaaa!



College Slice

Ace of Baes posted:

everyone who needs to be added to op quote this with your state, I'm busy and lazy but I'll add y'all later tonight

Non-NYC NY

Count Thrashula
Jun 1, 2003

Death is nothing compared to vindication.
Buglord

Ace of Baes posted:

everyone who needs to be added to op quote this with your state, I'm busy and lazy but I'll add y'all later tonight

DC

Tricky Dick Nixon
Jul 26, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Larry Parrish posted:

Unless you live in a two party state its kind of a pointless gesture

What does being a two party state have to do with privacy of members?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
If the LinkedIn thing was a cop thing, it was a pretty stupid cop thing since the outcome seemed to have strengthened the DSA.

Which makes me think it wasn't a cop thing.

Probably others in DSA. But I'm betting on Trot comedy option because that's funniest to me.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
I actually ran into a group of Trotskyists for this thing and it was kinda like this honestly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_EVtdF4xeQ

surfacelevelspeck
Oct 1, 2008

communism's sleepiest soldier

Tricky Dick Nixon posted:

What does being a two party state have to do with privacy of members?

two-party consent, where both parties need to consent to be recorded. a bunch of states (Texas being one of them) are single-party consent, meaning only the recording party needs to consent to being recorded, and doesn't have to inform others.

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

https://twitter.com/yaliberty/status/915200147499384833

https://twitter.com/dc_dsa/status/915232938991783936

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

rudatron posted:

Legality isn't a concern whenever the security state 'deals' with leftists. That only ever matters when protecting things like offshore bank accounts of rich people from prosecution. For politically motivated suppression, especially against the left, its 'anything you can get away with is okay'.

let me rephrase, i'm not sure what DSA is supposed to do about this problem. I think becoming paranoid and closing up meetings and events is not the answer. I work in the communications side of my chapter, and it's something i struggle with with other members frequently - see the wiki page i mentioned earlier. i think it's important for (specifically) the DSA to be an open and transparent org.

i'm not naive to what cops could try to do, i just think heavy handed responses are a waste of time

Slanderer
May 6, 2007

Ace of Baes posted:

everyone who needs to be added to op quote this with your state, I'm busy and lazy but I'll add y'all later tonight

COP

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
Shipped 5 buttons to someone in Texas yesterday. :)

Big Dick Cheney
Mar 30, 2007

Karl Barks posted:

let me rephrase, i'm not sure what DSA is supposed to do about this problem. I think becoming paranoid and closing up meetings and events is not the answer. I work in the communications side of my chapter, and it's something i struggle with with other members frequently - see the wiki page i mentioned earlier. i think it's important for (specifically) the DSA to be an open and transparent org.

i'm not naive to what cops could try to do, i just think heavy handed responses are a waste of time

There is a place for opsec but I think a lot of it is a combination of grandiosity and a desire to be in a secret club

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

OhFunny posted:

Shipped 5 buttons to someone in Texas yesterday. :)

revolution when?

Tricky Dick Nixon
Jul 26, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Syndlig posted:

two-party consent, where both parties need to consent to be recorded. a bunch of states (Texas being one of them) are single-party consent, meaning only the recording party needs to consent to being recorded, and doesn't have to inform others.

Isn't that why having bylaws about it important? It's not to threaten legal action but set a precedent in the org itself like any code of conduct style policy.

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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

hoi4 owners: bring about the glory of posadism

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