During Open Access Week, a few folks came to Cloyne to kickoff a coalition and a community for activism in internet governance, freedom of speech, privacy, access to information, peer production, and the interplay of new media with race, gender, sexuality, class, and other systems of power.

After watching the documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, we had a discussion facilitated by activist April Glaser from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We talked about many possible areas of work, from hosting cryptography workshops to exposing the influence of military and corporate funding over UC Berkeley’s computer science research.