Liverpool Technology Newswire Archive

18-05-2015 15:44

TAILS/TOR/12P/how safe

TAILS AND TOR AND 12P Read more >>

14-06-2011 08:37

Grassroots journalism - National tour kicks off in Liverpool

"The revolution is Online! Citizen TV from Arab Spring to UKUncut" at The Pilgrim 34 Pilgrim Street, Liverpool L19HB at 8pm. Read more >>

12-10-2009 13:55 | 1 comment

Carbon Capture Companies Must Share Results With Poor Countries

Importance of Carbon Capture to the whole World Read more >>

16-04-2009 15:10

DFEY-NW :: 25th April @ BBC Manchester

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs. Read more >>

10-02-2009 22:01 | 6 comments

Police bail sysadmin in animal rights extremism probe

Here is the latest from the register about the arrest related to the latest imc server seizure. The arrested man is a sys admin who hosted several servers including the indymedia server. Apparently this is enough to get you held for 8 hours and bail conditions. But the comments get it -

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/indymedia/comments/ Read more >>

09-02-2009 23:28 | 5 comments

Convention on Modern Liberty in Manchester, 28th February

Manchester will host a nationwide public on civil liberties at the end of February. The Convention on Modern Liberty in Manchester will be held at Manchester University Students' Union on Saturday 28th February from 9:45. The event is open to the public and free of charge. Read more >>

25-01-2009 02:48

Coroners and Justice Bill - Urgent Action Required

This is the most serious Parliamentary threat to our freedoms and privacy since the Identity Cards Act itself, and EVERYBODY can do something about it, without spending any money or leaving their computers. Just load up the links at the bottom of this article and off you go. Ten minutes later and you're done.

This is one of the most serious threats to our liberty and privacy we've yet seen. Please read this message from Phil Booth (NO2ID national co-ordinator) carefully, and act now. Read more >>

19-11-2008 12:07 | 2 comments

ID Cards protest against Thales in Stockport - Monday 17th November

A group of student activist held a noise demo outside the offices of Thales in Stockport to protest at their involvement in ID Cards and the National Identity Register. Read more >>

10-11-2008 19:03 | 1 addition | 38 comments

No Borders / NO2ID / Defy-ID protest against ID Cards for Foreign Nationals

THIS THURSDAY 13th November, there is a planning meeting in Liverpool for an action. 7pm at the Liverpool Social Centre, next to News From Nowhere bookshop, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY.

The action will take place on Tuesday 25th November, the first day on which foreign nationals will be interrogated and processed onto the Government's Database State. All groups opposed to identity cards, imposition of restrictions on foreign borders etc. are urged to attend. Read more >>

06-10-2008 21:39

Liverpool Defy-ID / NO2ID Meeting, Thursday 9th October

Liverpool Defy-ID are holding a meeting this Thursday (9th October) at 7pm at
Next To Nowhere, the Liverpool Social Centre at 96 Bold Street, L1 4HY -

http://www.liverpoolsocialcentre.org/find.htm
Read more >>

30-09-2008 11:38

Digital Freedom in Education and Youth :: October 19th :: Marbella Cafe

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a Group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs. Read more >>

09-08-2008 21:00

Blackpool CCTV review

Blackpool Council is asking residents to send their thoughts on CCTV. It is likely this so called consultation is being used to justify CCTV "upgrades" in Blackpool that will simply further reduce the civil liberties of local residents. Read more >>

07-08-2008 22:34 | 2 comments

Minutes of Manchester NO2ID Meeting, July 2008

Apologies for the late posting of these minutes; we could use volunteers to take and write up minutes at our meetings. Read more >>

14-07-2008 11:31 | 13 comments

Manchester Free Software Meeting - Ian Forrester - BBC Backstage

Manchester Free Software is a group based in the Manchester area that focuses on free software and GNU/Linux primarily and issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.
They hold monthly meetings of a non-technical nature on a range of intersting issues.
This month Ian Forrester from the BBC is to talk about "BBC Backstage".

Read more >>

07-07-2008 10:40

Liverpool NO2ID Inaugural Meeting

Liverpool NO2ID group will be having its first meeting at:

Place: Cooper's Pub, Lime Street Station, Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 1JD
Time: Tuesday 8th July, 7:30pm
Read more >>

22-04-2008 20:52 | 1 addition | 13 comments

1 may Day of Climate Action

1 MAY: DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION
Invasion of the climate snatchers!
Only one week to go!
Contacts, resources and ideas for action, and public actions.

Read more >>

27-03-2008 22:41

NO2ID Informal Meeting, Liverpool, Friday 28th March

A number of North-West NO2ID supporters will be meeting on Friday evening at Liverpool Lime Street station for drinks, chat and planning. National co-ordinator Phil Booth will be there, along with Liverpool co-ordinator Kev Beaumont and Manchester co-ordinator Dave Page. Read more >>

17-03-2008 23:25

Preston Prepares to Oppose the Database State

Preston locals are planning to kick-start a new local group of the national NO2ID campaign against identity cards and the Database State. A meeting is being held at the Bluebell pub on Church Street at 7:30pm on Thursday 20th March to re-launch the campaign locally.
Read more >>

19-02-2008 19:35

Interview With A Hacktivist

I recently conducted an interview with 'Shai', Liverpool's resident hactivist. He's organising a hactivism evening at the city's social centre, Next To Nowhere, on Wednesday 5th March. I talked to him about his plans for the event, his ideas for improving activists' use of technology, and asked what's so damned exciting about all those zeroes and ones anyway... Read more >>