The Electronic Frontier Alliance is a loose network of local groups fighting for digital rights in the United States, chaired by EFF. Members' efforts have been recovering from the limitations put on local organizing caused by the pandemic.
More EFA members have been holding in-person workshops and meet-ups that help cement the relationships needed to do their work.
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The Alliance has scores of members, all doing great things this year.
We talked to Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays, which came out of a nationwide effort to increase digital rights activism by providing regular workshops on related topics.
They have kept a great pace of trainings and panel discussions which has helped keep the digital rights movement alive in Portland, even through the pandemic when these educational events had to move online.
We checked-in with CCTV Cambridge on their efforts to close the digital divide with their Digital Navigator program, as well as their advocacy for digital equality.
EFA groups kept the conversation going in their communities.
Alliance members got together for a podcast interview on Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons, including EFF, Portland-based PDX Privacy, and Chicago-based Lucy Parsons Labs.
It's a great introduction to the Electronic Frontier Alliance, a couple of its superstar members, and how to get involved.
The Electronic Frontiers track at the sci-fi, fantasy, and comic book-oriented Dragon*Con in Atlanta was produced in coordination with EFA member Electronic Frontiers Georgia and garnered some fantastic conversations.
After a few years of hiatus or virtual panels, the digital rights component to the convention came back strong last year and carried on full steam ahead in 2023.
Encode Justice North Carolina: Encode Justice NC is mostly made up of high school students learning the tools of organizing by focusing on issues like algorithmic machine-learning and law enforcement surveillance.
MOKANCAN, Lawrence, KS: The Missouri & Kansas Cyber Alliance Network is a growing new group of volunteer activists who have been meeting on privacy and other digital rights in cities near the border of the two states.
New York Law School's Privacy Law Association, New York, NY: The PLA is a group of law students that train and organize around digital privacy and its impact in many fields of the law.
As we continue to fight for our digital rights, more groups are connecting to build and maintain a movement for change.
In the coming year, a lot of EFA members will be focused on effecting positive social change, whether it's by training new generations of digital justice activists or preventing attacks on rights to privacy and free expression.
To learn more about how the EFA works, please check out our FAQ page, and to join the fight, please apply to join us.
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This Cyber News was published on www.eff.org. Publication date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:13:05 +0000