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Trailnet 2021 Bicycle Education Class Offerings! Tuesday, December 7 (snow date Dec. 16th) 5:30-7:30PM,All About Winter Riding – Come learn with the experts all about winter riding. This class will …
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Apple announced Friday that it would postpone its planned roll-out of user device surveillance technology that had come under heavy fire from the privacy and civil liberties community. We at Freedom of the Press Foundation wrote last month that the technology was a “threat to user privacy and press freedom,” and could, if abused, threaten whistleblowers and journalists working on sensitive stories.
We were far from alone in raising the alarm about Apple's plans. Nearly one hundred civil society organizations signed an open letter to the tech giant urging it to reconsider, joining thousands of individuals, including security researchers, cryptographers, and privacy experts on a second letter. The strength and virtual unanimity of this outcry is heartening, and clearly had an effect. As our board president Edward Snowden put it on Twitter: “Don't ever let anyone tell you that there's nothing you can do when a company announces a plan to screw you.”
But while a delay is welcome, it’s not sufficient. Apple should drop its plans for this backdoor technology entirely. As we previously said about the technology, “No backdoor for law enforcement will be safe enough to keep bad actors from continuing to push it open just a little bit further.” The qualms from the privacy community weren’t nitpicks about implementation details, but a rejection of the underlying premise.
The danger of untrustworthy devices to journalists and sources has never been clearer, as we come off a summer of revelations of powerful spyware targeting reporters and the disclosure by investigators that encrypted messenger metadata was used to identify at least one whistleblower behind a major piece of financial reporting.
It’s crucial, then, that the developers of our technology and software keep their interests aligned with the privacy needs of their users. Apple has marketed itself on these very values, and indeed has often led the field towards more privacy preserving practices. This proposal could have been a dangerous move backwards; dropping it would be a step towards regaining user trust.
Trailnet is participating in the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project for the ninth year in a row! As we continue to collect count data each consecutive year, we are able to show changes in bicycling and …
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In 2018, the Tower Grove Neighborhoods CDC purchased a long-time nuisance property at 3800-02 Gravois in our continued attempt to stabilize the southern part of Tower Grove South, known as The Wedge. The property is our first mixed-use (commercial/residential) building. We invested a lot into the property because this corner is important to the stabilization and growth of the neighborhood.
Completed in late 2019, the upstairs residential units were rented to amazing tenants. The pandemic set our plans back a bit, so the commercial spaces waited for the perfect tenants. Our goal for the commercial spaces was to add value to the residents of the area. We knew the importance of finding the perfect tenants (non-profit organizations/local businesses) versus just getting the spaces filled. It was a long road, but we are happy to announce that both spaces have been filled!
3800 Gravios, the larger of the two spaces, will become a consignment furniture store run by a local non-profit organization. The James Jackson Group Home for Pregnant Teens provides services to help pregnant teens develop skills necessary to independence and life as healthy productive adults, as well as responsible and capable parents. The store will benefit an amazing cause, and an affordable furniture store in an area with a high amount of affordable rentals will benefit the neighborhood as well.
3802 Gravois is the first retail storefront for a great, local, family-owned business. The Popcorn Bar STL will bring healthy snacks and jobs into the area. After running a successful business at Soulard Market, the PopCorn Bar STL is expanding into Tower Grove South.
We are excited to welcome both of these businesses to the Tower Grove Neighborhoods CDC family! We can’t wait for them to open up over the next couple of months.
A huge thank you to ArtScope and the neighborhood kids for creating a great mural for 3800 Gravois as well. A little art makes a big difference in communities!
To see more projects like this completed, please donate to Tower Grove Neighborhoods!
Donate TodayWe are continuing this week’s “Communities Forward” podcast, with our two guests from last week who are the Co-founders of BlackTea. BlackTea is an audio and visual media organization founded in St. Louis, MO by two young Black women that aim to raise political, social, and cultural awareness while engaging communities in a conversational and […]
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An idea formed two years ago is finally being made real in Marquette Park. Soon the Dutchtown neighborhood will have the first outdoor futsal court in the City of St. Louis. Back in July of 2019, local soccer enthusiast Daniel Flynn, Dutchtown neighbor and UMOJA Soccer Club founder Fred Maboneza, and members of the Allies of Marquette Park group met at the Marquette Park Recreation Center.
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