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DESCRIPTION:Support a library tax increase, only if Radio Frequency Technology is taken 
 out  Come to a SuperBOLD* Press Conference & Rally  Tuesday June 21 6:00pm  
 Old City Hall 2134 M.L.King Jr. Way @ Allston Way  *Super Berkeleyans 
 Organizing for Library Defense (BOLD)                                       
                    will hold a rally and press conference to protest the 
 Board                                                                 of 
 Library Trustees' installation of **Radio Frequency                         
                                   Identification (RFID) tracking tags in 
 our Berkeley                                                              
 Public Libraries' books, CDs, videos and DVDs.   We support a potential tax 
 increase for the library                                                    
               only if RFID is taken out.  Join a fun rally with music, 
 entertainment, (stilt-walkers,                                              
               unicyclists, etc.)BOLD speakers and RFID experts              
                                                   (Electronic Frontier 
 Foundation, ACLU, SNAFU,                                                    
           Library Users Association) on health, labor and privacy           
                                                      issues and the 
 technology's workability.                                                   
        The BOLD Rally will precede:  the Berkeley City Council meeting, 
 7pm, at which there will be a public hearing on the budget. Sign a speaker 
 card and tell the Council you are in favor of a potential tax increase ONLY 
 IF they stop the RFID program and take out the Radio Frequency ID tags from 
 the Berkeley Public Library materials.  Please also email Mayor Tom Bates 
 and the City Council members to increase the library tax only if RFID is 
 taken out: clerk@ci.berkeley.ca.us                                          
                                                                             
              Website: libraryadvocates.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/19/69563.php
SUMMARY:Protest RFID** tagging & tracking of Berkeley's Library books
LOCATION:Old City Hall 2134 M.L.King Jr. Way @ Allston Way  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/19/69563.php
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