I'm not sure Aaron really was engaged in civil disobedience, strictly speaking.
He walked a fine legal line in the PACER case, and accomplished his goal without charges. Maybe JSTOR was PACER 2.0, and he misstepped on the law (badly). A good way to honor Aaron memory is to continue his mission, and to reform those things which cut his work short: 1. Organize support for Congresswoman Lofgren's reform of the CFAA 2. Push hard for open access in academic journals across the board 3. Reform the plea bargain system 4. Stop due process abuses like indefinite detention, warrant-less wiretapping, etc. SFC could make a major contribution to all these. Joe On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Janet Hawtin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 January 2013 14:18, Patrick Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > about Aaron and breaking unjust laws, not specifically about the > > download-disobedience campaign, in case conceptual background is useful: > > > http://mutualgift.net/2013/01/13/breaking-unjust-laws-and-aaron-swartzs-killing/ > > > > ~ Patrick > > How do you tackle the NDAA so that civil disobedience is a healthy > part of democratic ecology and not deemed 'enemy of the state'. Much > of the space for change in the public interest seems to be > contested/eroded? The kinds of actions police seem to think are > justified in responding to occupy protests can be violent and extreme > with no systemic check or responsibility. Reform of the justice and > policing systems need to be resolved or campaigned for before worrying > about what flavour of wrong to use to describe active advocacy or > 'applied sociology'? > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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