[Nettime-bold] Little Sister 2003 - info and registration

[secure@resist.ca]

Little Sister 2003
Community Resistance, Security, Law and Technology 

Vancouver, British Columbia (Coast Salish Territory)
Martime Labour Centre
May 9-11, 2003 
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The Goal is Freedom:

We believe our greatest strength in defeating the security and legal 
maneuvers used against us as community organizers is by unifying and 
building common cause in our movements. This means building diverse 
coalitions who are willing to support each other in order to create safe 
spaces for oppposition to the policies and practices of governments and 
corporations. Ultimately, as organizers, our goal is to resist the 
injustices that our communities face, while retaining our physical and 
emotional freedom. 

Little Sister 2003 is the first conference of its kind being held in 
North America. The conference focus is specifically on community 
resistance and the security and legal needs of autonomous movements. 
Some of the topics we aim to cover through workshops and panel 
discussions include: 

* Training the Trainers 
* Computer Security for Non-Geeks 
* Understanding Law Enforcement "Intelligence" 
* Surveillance Measures & Countermeasures 
* Security for Organizations 
* Informers and Infiltrators 
* Security Culture 
* "At-risk" Communities - Special Organizing Considerations 
* Infiltration by Right-Wing Agendas 
* Communicating Securely 
* Trends in Law 
* The Legal System & You 
* Does the Law Ever Work For Us? 
* Political Climates and Repression 
* Action-Planning & Security 
* Security Technology 
* Secure Systems Administration 
* PGP - What is it? How do we use it? 
* When the Cops Come Knocking 

Workshop Proposals Needed: 

WE NEED PEOPLE to facilitate and lead these, and other workshops. If you 
are interested in presenting on any of these topics (or others), or 
speaking on a panel please submit a workshop/skillshare proposal no 
later than March 20th so we can start to formulate and publicize the 
conference agenda. There is a form for workshop submissions online at 
https://littlesister2003.org/workshop.php. 

Logistics: 

Local organizers are working to make this conference as open as 
possible. We are able to provide billeting for out of town guests, child 
care and a fully wheelchair accessible space for the conference itself 
(if you have special housing needs, we will do our best to accomodate 
those as well). 

Although there are no travel subsidies available, we do have bursaries 
for participating in the conference at a 100% subsidization rate for 
those unable to pay. 

Registration: 

Registration is now open for the conference. Online, the registration 
form can be found at https://littlesister2003.org/reg_form.php. If you 
wish to register via email or phone, please contact the Little Sister 
2003 Organizing Collective using the contact info provided below.

The Bottom Line..... 

As organizers everywhere know, changes in political climate and to 
statutes and legislation over the past several years have allowed for a 
lot more harassment, infiltration, and criminalization of community 
organizations and their members. A tremendous strength can be found in 
bringing together these experiences to examine how we might make 
security skills and techniques a part of our organizing tool-box. 


Contact the organizing collective at:
info@littlesister2003.org
phone: 604-682-3269 ext 7038.
https://littlesister2003.org (website under development)


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