Notices by slackz (slackz@organizing.social)

Anybody out there a programmer with solid background w/ vuejs, rails, relational databases and general application development?

Our organization is hiring and we are looking to increase our engineering capacity.

Our tech team is small but very committed and we get to support the amazing work of immigration attorneys, program staff, and build tools that help folks successfully fight for asylum at a time when that support is critically necessary

Join us! Please DM if interested. Boosts welcome

Can anyone recommend the best way to root an #android phone? Just got a Samsung galaxy j3 and def wanna remove the bloatware. It's unlocked.

Certainly wanna root it first thing if I'm gonna go that route, but please only recommendations that you've tried / know to work... Thanks so much for any suggestions you might have!

Solid follow-up from The Mercury about why the local LGBTQ community has not been talking to the cops about recent attacks from far-right, bigoted cowards:

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/02/25/26018143/amid-anti-lgbtq-violence-many-queer-portlanders-dont-trust-the-police-for-protection

So glad to see all the incredible organizing happening around community safety and support, because the cops never have and never will protect us.

Stay together, stay tight!

Okay friends of port 70, guardians of the gopher, lovers of plaintext and long form content, the process has begun. I am very new to android dev and this is slow going, but enthusiastic to announce start of a new gopher client project for android.

Want to keep things as simple and elegant as possible, but already having tons of cool ideas about functionality.

Stay tuned :)
#gopher #android

Oh shit! Massive teacher strike in L.A! For the students! <3

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-teachers-strike-tens-thousands-walk-job-los-angeles-n958336?cid=public-rss_20190114

[Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers went on strike Monday after negotiations in the nation’s second-largest school district collapsed.

Braving rain, teachers carrying signs saying "on strike for our students" and umbrellas stood in picket lines Monday morning demanding smaller class sizes, more nurses, counselors and librarians, higher wages for educators and more accountability for charter schools.]

Copy/pasted from a friend:

Did you know that if you text 741741 when you are feeling depressed or suicidal, a crisis worker will text you back immediately and continue to text with you? Many people, especially younger folks, do not like talking on the phone and would be more comfortable texting. It's a free service to ANYONE - teens, adults, etc. - who lives in the U.S. It's run by The Crisis Text Line.

Job opportunity!

Mission: supporting lawyers and volunteers successfully fight asylum claims - working to get immigrant detainees released

Tech: ruby, rails, mysql, react a plus

Details: small eng team, remote position, health ins, salary (this job is about the mission, not making bank)

Interested? DM me!

Please tag your rails/react hacker frens!

Faith leaders showing us what people of faith should look like

"Federal officers on Thursday arrested nearly two dozen Oregon faith leaders during the latest demonstration waged by a religious coalition opposed to the Trump administration's immigration policies

All told, law enforcement officials handcuffed, zip-tied and jailed 21 clergy and one photographer affiliated with the group, which had blocked the driveway and front gate of the [ICE] facility in [SW] Portland"

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/08/feds_arrest_22_faith_leaders_d.html

Massive resistance is happening in prisons across the country. In the case of Tacoma, some ego-driven, toxic, horrible fuck of a warden has been punishing inmates for not submitting to arbitrary and dehumanizing shows of authoritarianism

Hunger strikes, work stoppages, critical organizing inside and outside prison walls.

Check out IWOC, NWDC Resistance, Critical Resistance, and related orgs.

Write letters yo prisonere, make calls, share these stories.

#PrisonStrike

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1958242747569929&id=671796032881280

I hear ppl talk about 50 yrs. Sometimes I feel like we maybe have 5...

"This sudden release of greenhouse gases triggers a positive feedback as it adds to the overall warming. What the NASA funded researchers are finding is that this process can be quite abrupt, leading to a larger and quicker impact on global warming. Large releases of carbon are not decades or centuries away, they are rapidly happening today and with it, changing the landscape of the Arctic."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/08/30/nasa-discovers-bubbling-lakes-in-the-remote-arctic-a-sign-of-global-warming/#1ef3b24f61f5

Regarding Wil Wheaton...
Did folks read things or do research before going scorched earth?

Here was his detailed response about situation:
http://wilwheaton.net/2018/06/regarding-blocklists-trolls-twitters-systemic-inaction-against-abuse-and-the-responsibility-of-wielding-great-power/
More in screenshot 1

I can understand how shitty it must have felt to see a trend of trans women on this blocklist. I would been pissed too. Not okay. There's also a world of difference between that being his intent and what I've seen as his response.

This shaming and shunning is not okay.
We are and must be better than that

Holy jesus fucking christ... Nevada literally wants to use fentanyl to execute human beings... even soulless pharmaceutical companies refused to sell drugs to the state for executions.

Now they are taking a fucked up drug that's killed a bunch of people to kill more people.

No. Words.

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/396383-nevada-will-execute-inmate-with-fentanyl-becoming-first-state-to-use

This is fucking beautiful. A #pdx carpenter union member is at #OccupyICEpdx offering union positions to ICE agents willing to quit their jobs.

#AbolishICE

Trimet (an entity that is supposed to provide public transit for ppl) has jurisdiction over the area where demonstrators are curr camped.

This "public service" is now demanding protesters vacate, despite other agencies not wanting to carry this out. Spoke with their cust service line. Was not fun

This is no surprise from an agency more concerned with giving tickets and criminalizing poverty than providing transport

#OccupyICEpdx
Call them if you can. Pressure matters:
503-238-7433

This is what a police state looks like. This should not be shocking to folks paying attention. Black, Native, Latinx folks have dealt with the violence and brutality of this system since police forces were formed to catch runaway slaves.

Peaceful demonstrators, mutual aid and community support in a beautiful camp in #pdx... and this is what our government sends

#AbolishICE #AbolishThePolice

Press release from #OccupyICEpdx RE today's raid by ICE/DHS, #pdx Police's complicity, and the horrifying intimidation tactics used against demonstrators:

https://www.occupyicepdx.org/media

"Prior to the sweep this morning, DHS agents had been trying to arouse and disorient and disrupt protestors over the past few nights. Threatening dad rock with lyrics like “sleep with one eye open” was played at high volume...
Agents were seen making hand gestures of guns and pantomimed shooting at protesters."

Numbers for Portland city commissioners / mayor:

Nick Fish: 503-823-3589
Chloe Eudaly (supportive of OccupyICEpdx): 503-823-4682
Amanda Fritz - 503-823-3008
Dan Saltzman - 503-823-4151
Mayor Wheeler - 503-823-4120

Please, light up these phone lines and demand that they create strong policies to actually make this a sanctuary city - not where feds can detain our neighbors and try to intimidate peaceful demonstrators.

#OccupyICEpdx
#OccupyICE
#AbolishICE

Photo from Dirk VanderHart of The Oregonian showing Portland Police assisting federal officers at the ICE detention facility in Portland.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler assured residents that PPB would NOT help ICE / DHS in any way.

No surprise, he's lying.

phone # for Mayor's office:
503-823-4120

Please please call that office to demand that the mayor keep his word, have PPB withdraw, remove #pdx from the horrible joint-terrorism taskforce and revoke permit for ICE

#OccupyICEpdx
#AbolishICE

Yesssssss! Oh hi there Amazon engineers of conscience. I knew you were there
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Amazon Workers 'refuse' to Build Tech for US Immigration, Warning Jeff Bezos of IBM's Nazi Legacy

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/amazon-workers-immigration-jeff-bezos-ibm-nazi-protest-a8411601.html

"People working for Amazon have written to the company's CEO, Jeff Bezos, to protest the sale of facial recognition tools and other technology to police departments and government agencies."

ICE agent: here's a flyer; you know about this federal code?

Me: *doesnt touch flyer; stares at deportation terrorist with the fire of a thousand suns*

Also us: https://vimeo.com/277234354

#OccupyICEpdx #OccupyICE #AbolishICE

<3 #LesMiserables (yeah, of course the original 1987 Broadway version)