Fight the Real ID (with The Lovers, DJ Manny, and more)
The 5-11 Campaign Committee: Americans [Texans] Against Real IDs is a non-profit grassroots organization to lobby to fully repeal and/or stop all spending motions to implement Real IDs. The Real ID Act was passed on May 11th, 2005 (hence the 5-11 campaign name) in HR 1268 - a bundle of legislation to award emergency Tsunami relief to Indonesia and supplemental war spending for body armor for troops in Iraq. HR 1268 was rushed through Congress and the Senate with utmost urgency. The unfunded Congressional mandate was then extended to the States to finance a highly insecure, federal database and nationalized ID that can be used in the place of a passport when traversing Canada and Mexico. States stand to pay out possibly $3.9 billion for hacker prone DMV databases linked to a federal electronic checkpoint network. Real IDs, proven to be easily and cheaply reproduced in a garage, will not provide the purported solution to immigrant documentation or national security. It just adds costs and irrelevant policing of the US identity... Accepting a Real ID is the beginning of a systematically compromised life at the "discretionary authority of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security". For the time being, you will be asked, on the basis of a secret and invisible law, to provide your Real ID or passport at TSA checkpoints in order to fly from state to state. As The Real ID Act of 2005 is written today, a Real ID can be used for whatever the Secretary of Dept Homeland Security says the "official purpose" is for your ID or license... This info is taken from the 5-11 Campaign website:
http://www.511campaign.org
There will be a 5-11 Campaign fundraiser tomorrow - Friday, November 7th from 7:00pm until 1:00am at Elysium (705 Red River). The Lovers will play at 8:00pm.
The event has a Stasi theme reminding us what life could be like in a police state (the Stasi were secret police active in East Germany from 1950 to 1989). $7 donation.
Emcee - Jack Blood
7 PM - Cocktail Tunes with DJ Pyro
8 PM - The Lovers
http://www.myspace.com/theloversaustin
9 PM - Nemion
http://www.myspace.com/nemionmusic
10 PM - Carrier Monkey
http://www.myspace.com/carriermonkey1
11 PM - DJ Manny
http://www.myspace.com/mannydroid2000
MIDNIGHT - Jigglewatts Cabaret Burlesque
http://www.myspace.com/jigglewatts
Sponsors - Brave New Books, KAOS Radio Austin, Freeople.com, BeatTheChip.org
