Saturday, January 19, 2013

AARON SWARTZ MEMORIAL: Democracy Now! Livestream of Aaron Swartz Public Memorial Service at Cooper Union

 ,  Digital pioneer, activist, REDDIT, CREATIVE COMMONS, RSS, DEMAND PROGRESS, ANTI-SOPA/PIPA and CISPA strikes and EFF co-founder AARON SWARTZ committed suicide 1/11/2013 in Brooklyn, New York,  SWARTZ was 26.
DEMOCRACY NOW has live streaming coverage of AARON SWARTZ's  memorial set for today 4pm-6pm at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 7 E 7th St (btw 3rd and 4th), 4-6pm. Open to all.











Swartz stood pending federal trial on computer fraud charges was scheduled to begin next month. In 2011, Swartz was arrested after prosecutors alleged he illegally downloaded millions of scientific journals from JSTOR, an online archive within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology network.


FROM DEMOCRACY NOW:
On Saturday, Democracy Now! will provide a special live stream of the public memorial service for pioneering computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz. Friends and family will gather at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City to celebrate Swartz's life and and work.

Stream live from 4-6pm EST at http://www.democracynow.org/.

Speakers include: Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, David Segal, Ben Wikler, Roy Singham, Doc Searls, Edward Tufte, David Isenberg, Holden Karnofsky, Tom Chiarella, and other friends. OK Go’s Damian Kush will be performing at the service.

To watch Democracy Now!'s coverage of Swartz and some of the causes that were important to him, please visithttp://owl.li/gWzHC.

                                                                                                                                                          COURTESY OF DEMOCRACY NOW: Democracy Now! Livestream of Aaron Swartz Public Memorial Service at Cooper Union

Watch live streaming video from democracynow at livestream.com



FROM FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE:
NYC memorial service: this Saturday, January 19, at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 7 E 7th St (btw 3rd and 4th), 4-6pm. Open to all. Speakers to be announced. Please share widely.
http://aaronswnyc.eventbrite.com/


Aaron Swartz NYC Memorial Service

Friends of Aaron Swartz
Saturday, January 19, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EST) New York, NY Free

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