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Upcoming events and RMPJC Meetings at Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center Boulder Colorado HUGE list:
Feb 25th
Saturday, February 26 BOULDER Protect the Clean Air Act Rally at 1 pm at the Municipal Building, corner of Broadway and Canyon. The purpose is to draw attention to the attacks happening in Congress on the Clean Air Act, the E.P.A. and their authority to regulate carbon pollution. Local experts, activists and leaders will speak.
Saturday, February. 26 DENVER Solidarity march with public employees in Wisconsin who are trying to preserve their right to organize unions. At 12 noon at the State Capitol, 1313 Sherman.
Saturday and Sunday Feb. 26 and 27 BOULDER Our Local Economy in Transition. This two-day conference explores the most pressing issues that we face as a community. 9-5pm at the Millennium Harvest House; $50 in advance; $60 at the door. More info: http://www.transitioncolorado.org
Sunday Feb. 27 BOULDER Left Hand Movie Night! Showing of Michael Moore’s documentary “Capitalism: A Love Story” at 7 p.m. at Left Hand Books, 1200 Pearl Street in Boulder (Bdwy and Pearl in basement). Free. Everyone welcome
Monday, February 28 DENVER The Colorado Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee will hear testimony on the Colorado Senate Bill 168 which establishes the Colorado Health Care Cooperative, a health care system owned by all residents of Colorado which would ensure that access to quality, affordable heath care for all Coloradans and would control health care costs. For summary of the bill, go to ) 1:30 to 5 PM in the Colorado Capitol Building, Old Supreme Court Chambers (2nd Floor). Rally on the West Steps of the Colorado Capitol from 11:30 AM to 12:10 PM. The rally will include speakers, music and street theater. Want to testify or be a health care speaker? Prepare at a Special Workshop for Health Care Speakers and Senate Committee Hearing Speakers Saturday, February 26th – Noon to 3 PM Location: The Kirk of Bonnie Brae. More info: 303-277-8306 email: info@HealthCareForAllColorado.org or dick@healthcareforallcolorado.org
Tuesday, March 1 BOULDER Boulder Municipal Court Judge Linda Cooke will report to the Boulder City Council on the state of the court. Please come to the public comment section of the Council meeting at 6 p.m. (get there by 5:30 p.m. to sign up) and ask the council to rescind the city’s homeless “camping” ordinance and to fund programs to ensure everyone has a place to sleep year round in Boulder. The Council is located in the Municipal Building at Canyon and Broadway.
Thursday March 3 BOULDER Trial of homeless person for “camping”. Jury selection starts at 9 a.m. and testimony begins around 10:30 a.m. Interesting and a good support for homeless and their cause to stop ticketing people for sleeping out doors when they don’t have a home. At the Municipal Court at 6th and Canyon.
Thursday, March 3 BOULDER “Art, Science and Rocky Flats”, a presentation by Denver artist Barbara Donachy & Metro State Chemistry Prof. Niels Schonbeck continues the Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship series, 7:30 PM, Thursday, March 3, at Naropa University’s Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe at 63rd St, Boulder Info: http://www.rockyflatsguardianship.org.
Friday, March 4, BOULDER Award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, host of the daily, grassroots, global, radio/TV news hour Democracy Now will speak on the role of independent media in promoting social justice at 7pm at the University of Colorado, MATH 100, 2300 Colorado Avenue.. Free and open to University of Colorado at Boulder students; $5 for community members.
Friday, March 4 BOULDER “American Muslims and Citizenship”, Lecture by Professor Abdullami Ahmad An-Na’im of Emory Law School. Ahmad An-Na’im is the author of “Islam and the Secular State” and teaches courses in international law, human rights and Islamic law. At 4 p.m. at the Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave. www.boulderlibrary.org 303-441-4941. Free.
Saturday, March 5 and Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12 BOULDER The Peace and Social Justice Committee of the Boulder Friends Meeting presents Mary’s Joy, a dramatic reading of a new play about Mary Dyer, hanged in Boston June 1, 1660 for being a Quaker. At the Friends Meeting House, 1825 Upland Ave March 5 at 2pm; March 11&12 at 7pm, Donations benefit the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center and Universal Arts Boulder. Seating Extremely Limited – no late seating WARNING! SOME MATERIAL MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES – Discretion Advised Details:universalartsboulder.wordpress.com
Sunday March 6 BOULDER Veterans for Peace meeting will be feature Dr. Leroy Moore who will give us an update on what’s happening at Rocky Flats, as well as “A Call to Guardianship” which is a series of lectures and workshops over the next 4 months. At the Arborwood Condominiums Clubhouse at 3250 O’Neal Circle. Potluck dinner at 6pm, speaker at 7.
March 6, BOULDER “9/11 WTC Debate: Collapse by Fire? or Explosive Controlled Demolition” Richard Gage, AIA, 23-year architect in the Bay Area and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth will debate Chris Mohr, Denver investigative journalist. The question: What brought down the three World Trade Center skyscrapers? 5 pm at the University of Colorado at Boulder, UMC room 235.
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Sunday, March 6 -Tuesday March 8 BOULDER/ DENVER Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh will speak in Denver and Boulder as part of his North America tour to promote his recent book, titled “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment.”. A long-time peace and justice activist, he teaches in Bethlehem University in the occupied West Bank. His book provides a comprehensive overview of Palestinian resistance going back to the beginning of the Zionist project in the 19th century until today.
Qumsiyeh events In BOULDER on Monday, March 7
“Popular Resistance in Palestine and the Arab World: Winds of Change,” lecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder (Eaton Humanities Building, Room 250), 4-6 pm. o
Book signing, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street (Boulder Mall), 7 pm
Qumsiyeh events In DENVER March 6-8:
Sunday, March 6, Lecture at Montview Presbyterian Church, 1980 Dahlia at Montview Boulevard, Park Hill, Denver. Sponsored by Sabeel. 3-5 pm.
Monday, March 7, University of Colorado at Denver Auraria campus, Tivoli 320C. 12:30-2:00 pm.
Tuesday, March 8, University of Denver, Korbel School, Cyber Cafe. 6-8 pm.
Tuesday, March 8, LeRoy Moore speaks on Rocky Flats: Local Hazard Forever, Best Western Lodge, Nederland. 6 PM meal of soup and bread; 7 PM presentation (come for both or only for the presentation). Sponsored by Mountain Forum of Nederland.
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Sunday, March 13 BOULDER Potluck for Peace This is a fun and informal social event for people who are bringing peace into the world. Come meet others in our community who care about peace, like you do; 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm; Boulder Mennonite Faith Community 3910 Table Mesa Drive, Bring a dish of your choice that feeds 8 people. Bring a plate, utensils, cup and drink Event will be held rain or shine. Wheelchair Accessible. RSVP: By March 10th. Please send an email to smalloy@indra.net Questions? 303-588-4452 Please indicate how many people are coming with you. Sponsored by Bldr. Co. Peace Group, RMPJC & Vets For Peace. Please bring your own reusable table service & dish/food in a washable/reusable container. Donations for facility rental welcome.
Sunday, March 13 BOULDER “My Experience with Immigration Policy” with Journalist, Author and First Lady of Colorado. Thorpe is the author of “Just Like Us”,. At the UU Church of Boulder at 5001 Pennsylvania Avenue at 7 p.m. Free.
Sunday, March 20 BOULDER Jacqueline Muller, long time Boulder resident who went to the city of Hebron, Palestine in 2008 and participated in the activities of Library on Wheels for Nonviolence and Peace, will show her documentary film about young people exploring gender and social issues as well as nonviolent methods to deal with conflict on 9 am, First Congregational Church Corner of Pine and Broadway.
April 8 WASHINGTON D.C. Pentagon Action for Peace: A Call to action by the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. Contact info:Joyfirst5@gmail.com
Wednesday, April 13 BOULDER Our U.S. Courts, part of the Boulder Public Library Court Series, Main Branch Boulder Library, Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave. 7 p.m. Info: elturkg@boulderlibrary.org or 303-441-4941.
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RMPJC COLLECTIVE MEETINGS:
The RMPJC invites you to help create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world by joining one of our collectives or by volunteering in our office. Our collectives discuss issues and take action at the local, state and national levels.
Economy/International Collective meets the first and third Mondays at 7 p.m. at RMPJC.
Middle East Collective meets the 2nd and 4th Mondays at 7 p.m. at RMPJC.
Move to Amend meets the 2nd Wednesday at 7 p.m. at RMPJC. This group is working to get a City Council resolution passed that would support amending the U.S. Constitution to say that corporations are not persons and are not entitled to the rights of persons.
Citizens for Pesticide Reform meets as needed and works extensively by email. Contact Betty @ (303) 444-6981 for meeting info and how to get involved.
Everybody Eats. Call Dave Georgis for details 303 499-2175.
Nuclear Nexus. Call Judith Mohling (303) 447-9635 for meeting info and how to get involved.
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Other groups the RMPJC works with:
Homeless Organized for More Equality. Every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. in the administrative building of the First Congregational Church at Pine and Broadway, 3rd floor.
Lafayette/Louisville Peace and Justice Group Next meeting: Sunday, Feb.27, 1-2:30 p.m. at the Cannon Mine Coffee Company at 210 S. Public Road in Lafayette.
For more information on RMPJC, call us at 303-444-6981 or visit our website at www.rmpjc.org or link with our facebook page at our website.
RMPJC is located at 3970 Broadway, Suite 105, Boulder. From Quince and Broadway go east and take a right into the second driveway into the shopping center.
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Carolyn Bninski
RMPJC
303-444-6981x2
Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?-Martin Luther King
Boulder Birdman with Steve Frye
Feb 17th
Videos:
Welcome to the Boulder Bird Man video blog. Steve Frye owns the Wild Bird center in Boulder. Every Saturday morning at 7:00 A.M. he leads a bird walk and talk for birder of all levels. Steve has remarkable knowledge about local birds, migrations and habitats and we are honored to have him as part of our shows here on the Channel 1 networks. Look for a new blog each month right there. Check out the Wild Bird Center website and make sure to tell Steve you saw it. For more information on the Boulder Bird Man walks email Steve: wbcboulderco@aol.com. Make sure you stop by the store too. It is the only bird store in Boulder. The staff are all birders so you’ll get your questions answered. Look for the Boulder Bird Man on our Colorado Magazine on CET channel 5/4 all over Colorado.
Steve Frye grew up in the woods of Minnesota where he began a lifelong interest in natural history, especially birds, at a very early age. After graduating from St. Olaf College with a degree in chemistry, Steve joined the Peace Corps in Kenya to teach high school science. The incredible birdlife in Africa intensified Steve’s birding zeal. Steve worked as a chemist for a short time after returning from Kenya. He eventually settled in Colorado and opened the Wild Bird Center of Boulder in January 1989. The Wild Bird Center, with the support of its customers, has provided the community with quality bird products and educational opportunities since that time. Steve married Julie Graf in 1997 and they have 2 children, Genevieve and Charlie.
Cookie Monster zaps your files Web developers read this Boulder
Nov 14th
Programming and human factors
by Jeff AtwoodNov 13, 2010
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works:
- Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that doesn’t require a password before you can connect to it.
- Install Firefox and the Firesheep add-in.
- Wait. Maybe have a latte while you’re waiting.
- Click on the user / website icons that appear over time in Firesheep to instantly log in as that user on that website.
Crazy! This guy who wrote Firesheep must be a world-class hacker, right?
Well, no. The work to package this up in a point-and-click way that is (sort of) accessible to power users is laudable, but what Firesheep actually does is far from magical. It’s more of an art project and PR stunt than an actual hack of any kind. Still, I was oddly excited to see Firesheep get so much PR, because it highlights a fundamental issue with the architecture of the web.
The web is kind of a primitive medium. The only way websites know who you are is through tiny, uniquely identifiying strings your browser sends to the webserver on each and every click:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: diy.stackexchange.com
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Chrome/7.0.517.44
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Cookie: diyuser=t=ZlQOG4kege&s=8VO9gjG7tU12s
If-Modified-Since: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:41:12 GMT
These are the typical sort of HTTP headers your browser sends to a website on every click. See that little cookie in bright red? To a website, that’s your fingerprint, DNA, and social security number all rolled into one. Some part of the cookie contains a unique user ID that tells the website you are you.
And guess what? That cookie is always broadcast in plain text every single time you click a link on any website. Right out in the open where anyone — well, technically, anyone who happens to be on the same network as you and is in a position to view your network packets — can just grab it out of the ether and immediately impersonate you on any website you are a member of.
Now that you know how cookies work (and I’m not saying it’s rocket surgery or anything), you also know that what Firesheep does is relatively straightforward:
- Listen to all HTTP traffic.
- Wait for HTTP headers from a known website.
- Isolate the part of the cookie header that identifies the user.
- Launch a new browser session with that cookie. Bam! As far as the target webserver is concerned, you are that user!
All Firesheep has to do, really, is listen. That’s pretty much all there is to this “hack”. Scary, right? Well, then you should be positively quaking in your boots, because this is the way the entire internet has worked since 1994, when cookies were invented.
So why wasn’t this a problem in, say, 2003? Three reasons:
- Commodity public wireless internet connections were not exactly common until a few years ago.
- Average people have moved beyond mostly anonymous browsing and transferred significant parts of their identity online (aka the Facebook effect).
- The tools required to listen in on a wireless network are slightly … less primitive now.
Firesheep came along at the exact inflection point of these three trends. And mind you, it is still not a sure thing — Firesheep requires a particular set of wireless network chipsets that support promiscuous mode in the lower level WinPcap library that Firesheep relies on. But we can bet that the floodgates have been opened, and future tools similar to this one will become increasingly a one-click affair.
The other reason this wasn’t a problem in 2003 is because any website that truly needed security switched to encrypted HTTP — aka Secure HTTP — long ago. HTTPS was invented in 1994, at the same time as the browser cookie. This was not a coincidence. The creators of the cookie knew from day one they needed a way to protect them from prying eyes. Even way, way back in the dark, primitive ages of 2003, any banking website or identity website worth a damn wouldn’t even consider using plain vanilla HTTP. They’d be laughed off the internet!
The outpouring of concern over Firesheep is justified, because, well, the web’s cookie jar has always been kind of broken — and we ought to do something about it. But what?
Yes, you can naively argue that every website should encrypt all their traffic all the time, but to me that’s a “boil the sea” solution. I’d rather see a better, more secure identity protocol than ye olde HTTP cookies. I don’t actually care if anyone sees the rest of my public activity on Stack Overflow; it’s hardly a secret. But gee, I sure do care if they somehow sniff out my cookie and start running around doing stuff as me! Encrypting everything just to protect that one lousy cookie header seems like a whole lot of overkill to me.
I’m not holding my breath for that to happen any time soon, though. So here’s what you can do to protect yourself, right now, today:
- We should be very careful how we browse on unencrypted wireless networks. This is the great gift of Firesheep to all of us. If nothing else, we should be thanking the author for this simple, stark warning. It’s an unavoidable fact of life: if you must go wireless, seek out encrypted wireless networks. If you have no other choices except unencrypted wireless networks, browse anonymously — quite possible if all you plan to do is casually surf the web and read a few articles — and only log in to websites that support https. Anything else risks identity theft.
- Get in the habit of accessing your web mail through HTTPS. Email is the de-facto skeleton key to your online identity. When your email is compromised, all is lost. If your webmail provider does not support secure http, they are idiots. Drop them like a hot potato and immediately switch to one that does. Heck, the smart webmail providers already switched to https by default!
- Lobby the websites you use to offer HTTPS browsing. I think we’re clearly past the point where only banks and finance sites should be expected to use secure HTTP. As more people shift more of their identities online, it makes sense to protect those identities by moving HTTPS from the domain of a massive bank vault door to just plain locking the door. SSL isn’t as expensive as it used to be, in every dimension of the phrase, so this is not an unreasonable thing to ask your favorite website for.
This is very broad advice, and there are a whole host of technical caveats to the above. But it’s a starting point toward evangelizing the risks and responsible use of open wireless networks. Firesheep may indeed have broken the web’s cookie jar. But it was kind of an old, beat up, cracked cookie jar in the first place. I hope the powers that be will use Firesheep as incentive to build a better online identity solution than creaky old HTTP cookies.
Posted by Jeff Atwood