First a thank you to Alex Leonhart who created the original event series and information page.
New in 2020 The Organizer’s Activity Book by tactical tech
Find your reps Local, State and Federal: https://myreps.datamade.us/
Get to know your locals
Activism can end up being too focused on National and State level issues when much of the impact of government starts with very local decisions. Know your locals.
- City Council: Council meets regularly on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in the John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, inside City Hall at 10:00 am. All meetings are open to the public. https://www.lacity.org/your-government/elected-officials/city-council/council-directory
- Find your neighborhood council
- LA County Board of Supervisors https://bos.lacounty.gov/
California
“So goes California goes the nation.” California is known for leading the way in important legislative topics. Know your reps!
- Find your Reps: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
- Constitution: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html
Do your research
Voting records
Campaign Finance
Voter Guides
- Voters Edge
- LAist/KPCC guide
- For Judges: Los Angeles County Bar Association Judicial Elections Evaluation Committee –
- Landing Page | Final Report (PDF)
- For Judges: League of Women Voters fact sheet on where to look for more information about judges
Resources for Developers
Technology is Politics
- Book: Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble
- Book: Rage Inside The Machine, Rob Smith
- Book: Technically Wrong, Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- Systemic Racism is a Cyber Security Threat
- Technology Perpetuates Racism by Design
- How Tech Supports Hate
- Supporting Colleagues
Civic Tech APIs
- Google Civic Information API
- GovTrack API
- Open Civic Data
- KPCC
Other Organizations
Organizations that deal with technology and other civic issues that maybe of interest to the CRASH Space community
- @devcolororg – https://secure.actblue.com/donate/devcolor, https://www.devcolor.org/
- @blacktechmecca – https://blacktechmecca.org/donate-1
- @AllStarCode – https://allstarcode.org/donate/
- @blackgirlscode – https://www.paypal.me/BlackGirlsCode
- @Code2040 – https://code2040-2020.funraise.org/
- People’s Budget LA
- https://www.naacpldf.org/
- https://www.splcenter.org/
- https://www.adl.org/
- Network of Internet and Society Research Centers
- Berkman Klien Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
- Stanford Center for Internet and Society
- Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA
- Cyber Policy and Gender Violence Initiative
- EFF
- https://fairfight.com/
- https://votefwd.org/bigsend
- https://5calls.org/
- https://endcitizensunited.org/the-safe-democracy-project/
- https://www.codeforamerica.org/