Department of Homeland Security "Town Hall" meeting in California -- May 1!

If you are in the Sacramento/Davis area of California, here is something you can do directly!

The Department of Homeland Security is holding a town hall meeting on Real ID on Tuesday, May 1st.

It will be located at Freeborn Hall at UC Davis from 10 AM to 2 PM.

If you're able, go, and ask hard questions. A strong presence at the town hall meeting will go a long way in helping to kill Real ID.

And please, spread the word. If you can't go, maybe some of your friends and family can make it.

Deborah

A good get-together!

Thanks to the folks who came by the Stop Real ID Now get-together in SF yesterday. There were 10 of us there -- including several new folks -- and so there were great discussions on all kinds of different topics. Deborah gave a short overview talk, then it was question-and-answer and discussion for the next forty-five minutes ... and then most people stayed for another half hour or so and talked more about how we can get the word out, and a lot of creative ideas came up -- street mimes, for example!

I took notes, and after I clean them up a little I'll post them in the next day or so.

Thanks to Brandy Reynolds of the BARK ACLU for organizing, and to the ACLU of Northern California for hosting!

jon

Reminder: SF get-together tonight!

Just wanted to remind people about the "Stop Real ID Now" at 7 p.m. tonight, 39 Drumm St., San Francisco. Deborah Pierce of PrivacyActivism will be speaking and answering questions, and there will be light refreshments -- which I'm about to go out and buy as soon as I'm done with this post. Details here.

See you there!

jon

San Francisco get-together: April 19, 7 p.m.

Our strategy for the grassroots activism campaign is to combine outreach via social networks with real-world get-togethers ... and so we're delighted to announce the first one!

It's at 7 p.m. next Thursday, April 19 at the ACLU of Northern California's San Francisco headquarters (39 Drumm St.) I'll be speaking and answering questions, and light refreshments will be served -- details in this post on free-association. If you're in the SF bay area, I hope to see you there!

If you're interested in helping to organize or host a get-together in your area, please let us know -- and we'll post the collateral that we're producing for the SF get-together so that people can reuse it however they want.

Deborah

PS: Many thanks to Brandy for organizing this event!