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The Chinese government may have tried to steal research related to COVID-19 from the University of Texas at Austin, the FBI told the school earlier this month.
The news came from an email sent Monday to faculty, staff and post-doctoral students from the school's interim vice president and provost, Daniel Jaffe, who wrote that the investigation was sparked by the July 24 closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston.
He warned that the FBI may be reaching out to them about relations with the consulate and "efforts by the Chinese government to illegally procure research from American universities."
"We do not know whom the FBI intends to contact or what they plan to discuss, nor have we shared anyone's information or details about ongoing research with FBI agents," Jaffe said in the email. "It's not unusual for federal law enforcement officers to ask to speak with researchers if deemed necessary to support criminal or national security investigations."
Details of Jaffe's email to members of the university were first reported by the Houston Chronicle. UT is not the only university affected.
The closure of the consulate in Houston served as the latest development in the conflict between the Trump administration and China, which spans issues ranging from trade, espionage, the expansion of 5G phone service around the globe and, now, the country's role in the coronavirus pandemic.
The administration cited the need to protect intellectual property and American private information in closing the consulate—the same issues the FBI is now investigating at U.S. higher education institutions.
The day before the closure of the consulate, the Justice Department revealed indictments for two Chinese hackers accused of stealing information from "computer systems of hundreds of victim companies, governments, non-governmental organizations, and individual dissidents, clergy, and democratic and human rights activists in the United States and abroad, including Hong Kong and China."
A press release announcing the indictment said the hackers stole for their own personal gain, in some cases, and in others acted on behalf of the Chinese government. The terabytes of data ranged from tech manufacturing to pharmaceuticals to gaming software.
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David Frost, 22, filmed Austin protester Justin Howell (left) being carried to medics after being shot in the head by an Austin police officer. Other officers then shot at the protesters as they approached, causing them to duck (right).
David Frost, 22, had never attended a protest before the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in May. Then the cell phone-wielding Austinite became a key player in a series of events that touched off major change in the Austin Police Department.
<p>When Austin police officers began using tear gas on screaming protestors to clear I-35 on May 30, Frost pulled out his phone and hit the record button.</p><p>"I wasn't originally going out there planning on filming," he said.</p><p>One video showed a group of protesters carrying Justin Howell's limp body to medics after an Austin police officer <a href="https://austonia.com/city/austin-protesters-injured-police" target="_self">shot the 20-year-old Texas State Student in the head</a> with a "less lethal" round. </p><p>His 45-second clip on social media now has more than 10 million views. Outrage over the video, and similar ones on social media, led to a ban on less lethal rounds and tear gas at Austin protests. </p><p>"The importance of documenting this stuff is, like, nobody knew Justin's name for 48 hours," Frost said. </p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="807a3ffdd002f7ef45b346698745ff34" id="3c5c4"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1267315908760010754"><div style="margin:1em 0">@arianalipkin https://t.co/ZGHtMpPj8B</div> — David Frost (@David Frost)<a href="https://twitter.com/DavidFr31601156/statuses/1267315908760010754">1590986632.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Amateur video footage has been critical to the Black Lives Matter movement since it gained national prominence in 2014 following the Ferguson unrest - and most recently in the death of George Floyd, which prompted protests around the world.<br/></p><p>Austin police have even recognized the amateur videographers as valuable, frequently calling on citizens to send in their footage to help - including in the cases of Howell and Brad Levi Ayala, 16, who suffered brain damage after being hit with a bean bag round that same weekend.</p><p>"I have been filming," Frost said. "And I have noticed a lot more people filming as well." </p><p>Local activists are using video footage not only to capture and post isolated incidents but also to record protests, rally support and investigate misconduct. </p><p>"I'm seeing new tactics as well as new platforms being deployed," said Professor Dhiraj Murthy, who researches social media activism at the University of Austin at Texas. </p><p>It fits into a broader trend of the public watching the police, he said, a practice known as "sousveillance." </p><p>"It's the idea that you can monitor how the police are treating people," he said. </p><p><strong>Crowdsourcing footage </strong></p><p>When Brendan Walsh, another newcomer to protests, saw video clips of the Austin protests in late May, he described it as "warfare on Austin citizens." </p><p>Walsh scoured the internet for clips showing Ayala being hit. His goal: To identify the officer who fired the weapon.</p><p>Reddit has a strict anti-doxxing policy, due to its users wrongly accusing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/magazine/should-reddit-be-blamed-for-the-spreading-of-a-smear.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&" target="_blank">an innocent 22-year-old of being one of the Boston bombers</a>. So Walsh created the Instagram account @justice4ayala, where he posted updates on his investigation.</p><p> Last week, <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/brad-levi-ayala-shooter-identified-austin-police/" target="_blank">APD confirmed to Texas Monthly</a> what Walsh had already discovered: The officer's name was Nicholas Gebhart.</p><p>"There's a reason people are interested in my work," Walsh said. "They feel that this officer might not be held accountable."</p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="436a5994c80f80e0d098092684e3ae15" id="57f28"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0;
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</div></blockquote></div><p><strong>Backlash</strong><br/></p><p>Murthy says the actions of these amateur investigators tend to incite those who believe they're vigilantes.</p><p>"There have been plenty of incidents where the people filming footage have had abuse online leveled at them and that has resulted in real threats against them," he said. </p><p>Walsh said some protesters have sent footage to him instead of APD because they fear officers will ask why they were searching through their social media accounts.</p><p>Hiram Gilberto Garcia, an independent journalist who interviewed Austin protester Garrett Foster on camera the night he was shot and killed by an Uber driver, has documented being arrested by APD and discouraged comments that "initiate disagreement or discord."</p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="211" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FImHiram%2Fposts%2F160257025717637&width=500" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="500"></iframe></div><p>In spite of of that, however, Walsh hopes more people follow his lead, <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/22/javier-ambler-michael-ramos-margaret-moore/" target="_blank">especially as official inquiries drag on</a>.<br/></p><p>"This only took me 25 to 30 hours by myself to get a significant amount of progress," he said. "And now it has pushed from something that was just kind of an online project to what I feel is real change."</p>
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'We have only begun to fight': Save Austin Now seeks legal help in battle over no-camping petition
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The petition, if validated and approved by voters this November, would have reinstated a city ban on public camping.
The group behind a petition to put a citywide public-camping ban on the November ballot in Austin said Thursday that they were "engaging a highly respected local Democratic litigator" in their efforts to fight a city ruling earlier in the week that their petition did not enough valid signatures.
<p>Matt Mackowiak, a cofounder of <a href="http://saveaustinnow.org/" target="_blank">Save Austin Now</a>, <a href="https://austonia.com/austin-homeless-camps" target="_self">the group behind the petition</a>, stopped short of saying the group was planning to file a legal contest—but he did put out a call for donations in a post on Facebook. </p><p>Mackowiak, who is also chairman of the Travis County Republican Party, said <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SaveAustinNow/posts/164372638497514" target="_blank">in a Facebook post</a> that the group has called "a highly respected local Democratic litigator to review the facts, help us determine what additional information is needed, and consider our legal options." </p><p>"Put simply: This is expensive and we need your support right now," he wrote. "We have only begun to fight."</p><p><span></span>Austin City Clerk Jannette Goodall's <a href="https://austonia.com/austin-texas-homeless-petition" target="_self">ruling yesterday</a> was the first time since 2002 that the city invalidated a petition because of lack of signatures, she told Austonia on Thursday.<br/></p><p>The struggle has intensified <a href="https://austonia.com/austin-homeless-problem-camp" target="_blank">as residents report growing camps near neighborhoods</a> while a consultant hired by the city is advising that moving the encampments won't solve the city's homelessness issue.</p><p>Goodall used a random sampling method that the city adopted in 2002 in her review, according to a city spokesperson. State law allows cities to use any reasonable sampling method in determining whether citizen-led petitions contain the required number of signatures.</p><p>While Mackowiak was not specific about plans to file, local attorney and activist Fred Lewis—who has spearheaded other citizen-initiated petitions, including one last year that opposed an expansion of the Austin Convention Center— said he would expect the group to file very soon, likely with the state district court.</p><p>This is because the last day for the city to order a referendum in the November election is Aug. 17, according to the state election schedule. </p><p>"You're talking two or three weeks this has got to be decided - at most," Lewis said. "The court may not be able to decide it in that time." </p><p>Save Austin Now filed the petition on July 20, with 24,598 signatures—well over the 20,000 required to put their initiative on the ballot. If validated, it would have allowed voters to decide whether to roll back a year-old city ordinance allowing camping, panhandling, sitting and lying in public spaces. </p><p>But in her review, Goodall discovered several issues: some signers asked to be removed; there were duplicate names; and a second version of the petition was detected, which invalidated others. </p><p>Ultimately, the clerk estimated that there are 19,122 valid signatures on the petition.</p><p>"The probability that checking all 24,201 submitted signatures would find a total of at least 20,000 valid signatures is less than 3 in one billion," Goodall wrote in her ruling. </p><p>Some welcomed the news.</p><p>Chris Harris, director of criminal justice programs at <a href="https://www.texasappleseed.org/" target="_blank">Texas Appleseed</a> and who was involved in a local effort to decriminalize homelessness, called the clerk's ruling "phenomenal" in a tweet on Wednesday. </p><p>"Republican efforts to re-criminalize homelessness & use homelessness as a wedge to turn out conservative voters in November has failed," he wrote.</p><p>Save Austin Now co-founder Cleo Petricek is a self-proclaimed local Democrat. </p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c4f919f489f18a61a73cb2732faf74c5" id="dec2d"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1291114147581747201"><div style="margin:1em 0">PHENOMENAL news #ATX!!!
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Last week the City Council voted to consider the renaming of streets, parks and other locations in Austin that are reminiscent of slavery or racism. So this week, we asked you, "Do you think the city of Austin should change its name?" The name originates from Stephen F. Austin, known slavery supporter. A vast majority of readers voted the name should stay.
<p>Of 169 readers who voted, a whopping 91% voted "No," that the city should keep its name, indicating in the comments that the name is part of a history that cannot be erased, and that it is also its own brand - not immediately associated with Stephen F. Austin.</p><p><strong>"Austin has a brand that is admired worldwide. The name and brand are not associated with racism, slavery, or white supremacy, despite the realities of its namesake, Stephen F Austin."</strong></p><p>Only eight people voted "Yes" to the city changing its name, citing the name represents racism. </p><p><strong>"If it is upsetting to people, I have no problems changing it."</strong></p><p>And lastly, seven readers voted "Unsure."</p><p><strong>"Consistency is key - if parks, street names are being changed, then why not cities? However, it's history, and preserving these names could serve as a reminder of behavior we should not model based on the learnings of our past. Failures make us stronger. To erase names will erase history and the key learnings."</strong></p>
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CEO of The 19th* Emily Ramshaw (left) will be interviewed by the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle (right) next week.
The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle is taking her turn at being the interviewer, putting Austinite Emily Ramshaw—a longtime local journalism trailblazer and co-founder and CEO of The 19th* news organization—in the hot seat at the organization's virtual summit event next week.
<p>"She asked if she could interview me on 'storytelling that lifts up those who are too often underrepresented in the media,' and 'what it means to build a media outlet with gender equity, diversity and community at its core,'" Ramshaw wrote on Twitter on Thursday.</p><p><br/></p>
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<p><br/></p><p><span></span>The interview closes out the 19th* Represents 2020, a week filled with events commemorating the suffrage centennial, on Friday, August 14. The summit includes conversations with prominent women in politics, civic engagement, journalism and the arts. The <a href="https://summit.19thnews.org/speakers" target="_blank">lineup of speakers</a> includes Kamala Harris, Melinda Gates, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams and Meryl Streep, to name a few.</p><p>The 19th*, a new nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom focused on <a href="https://19thnews.org/2020/08/americas-first-female-recession/" target="_blank">gender and politics</a>, launched its <a href="https://19thnews.org/" target="_blank">news site</a> this week. The organization is named after the 19th amendment, in which women were given the right to vote—but the asterisk stands for the "unfinished business" of the amendment, as voter suppression is still happening today. </p><p>Ramshaw is also former editor-in-chief at the <a href="http://texastribune.org" target="_blank">Texas Tribune</a>, another groundbreaking nonprofit journalism organization based in Austin.</p><p>In an interview with <a href="https://www.glamour.com/story/meghan-markle-the-19th-represents-summit-interview-emily-ramshaw" target="_blank">Glamour Magazine</a>, Ramshaw described what it was like to keep Markle's booking a secret over her young daughter's desperate desire to spread the news: </p><p><em>"Just as Ramshaw was gearing up for the site's debut, she and her husband made the decision to send their daughter back to daycare "because we couldn't get across the finish line with her at home," Ramshaw says. "So she walks straight in, bursts into the room, and declares, 'My mommy is going to talk to a princess!' Thank god no one believed her."</em></p>
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