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DESCRIPTION:LET'S NOT LET THIS HAPPEN IN BERKELEY!  IF THEY DO IT HERE, THEY'LL DO IT 
 EVERYWHERE!  LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY.  The 
 Berkeley Board of Library Trustees (BOLT), without informing the community, 
 has installed Radiofrequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) into all the 
 Berkeley Public Library materials. The Director installed RFID in the 
 Eugene, Oregon libraries before she came here. Her stated reason was to 
 save money from the high cost of Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs) claims, 
 however, in 2004, there were 0 cases of RSI and of course 0 claims.   We 
 have a large new building and cannot afford, so the story goes, enough 
 workers to keep it open as long as it used to be open. Workers have left in 
 disgust and have not been replaced. The workers are being moved around to 
 make "a more flexible workplace" (corporate jargon). There will be no Teen 
 Librarians at the branch libraries now. The check out process at all the 
 libraries is to be automated. Self checkout RFID. The workers are 
 dispirited and overworked still today! And the director doesn't want to 
 hire more workers, only more management types.  The last BOLT meeting it 
 was revealed that now we have gone from something like a $1.2 million 
 deficit to an $860,000 surplus. They are going to open the main library for 
 four hours now on Sundays.  Noone on the board seems to understand the 
 finances and neither does the director or her finance manager.  We object 
 to RFID for three reasons:  1. Our libraries are not Corporations.  2. We 
 should be following the Precautionary Principle health wise. Not enough is 
 known about Radiofrequency radiation as far as low frequency long term 
 contact. e.g. workers who work around the scanners or gates all day.  3. 
 Why should we pay for the testing of this new surveillance technology in 
 our public libraries when we were never consulted with in the first place. 
 The city of Berkeley has accepted 5 Homeland Security Servers, which all 
 the Berkeley City computers will be connected to!  PLEASE COME TO OUR 
 MEETINGS AND HELP GET RID OF THIS AWFUL SPYWARE.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/16/75933.php
SUMMARY:Berkeley Library Defense KICK OUT RFID!
LOCATION:Addison and Sacramento,  1 block south of University Ave
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/16/75933.php
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