Jen-Mei Wu ⁽⁸⁾

I've been involved in movement activism for most of my adult life. Right now I'm focused on cultural work (including through Comrade Lover), making (art and tech), and skillsharing (via PaRTEE and previously through Liberating Ourselves Locally, aka LOL makerspace).

I've been in movement spaces for most of my adult life, and have noticed that some really useful skills – e.g. radio, digital security, sound engineering, screen printing, functional art – are held by a small number of people. And often that small number of people isn't the most diverse group. I've been trying to expand my own skillset in these and other areas, and sharing what I've learned through PaRTEE.

Re: amateur (ham) radio: check out this post that includes my ham origin story helping w/ wilderness comms for Run4Salmon. I'm not at all an expert, but I love helping other social justice activists get into the hobby, partly because I want more people to practice with.

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Jen-Mei Wu February 23, 2025

Programming QRZ-1 & Baofeng UV-5R w/ CHIRP; Bay Area repeaters

We did a demo of CHIRP (open source ham radio programming software) but due a forgotten USB dongle at our practical skills training class yesterday (oops! we'll make sure to correct this when do the class again on 3/15), we weren't able to program student…

Sculpture of a whale on front left w/ a path wooden observation platform to the right going a little further back. Water and tall buildings are in the background.

Jen-Mei Wu February 17, 2025

Ham Radio Field Training 3/15

IMPORTANT NOTE: Here's a Signal link for the class. See the Location info below if you need directions to the Arrowhead Marsh parking lot closest to where we'll be. We'll try to keep this page up to date, but the Signal group will be the…

The wordl Bay Anarchist Free School encircling an ouroboros (snake swallowing its own tail) encircling a capital letter A.

Jen-Mei Wu January 18, 2025

Ham Radio @ Bay Anarchist Free School

We're teaching 3 workshops for the Bay Anarchist Free School's Jan-March 2025 session! In addition to our sessions, there are a lot of other interesting classes – please check out the full schedule! If you have any questions, please email hello@partee4justice.org. The first session, Intro…

Jen-Mei Wu October 27, 2020

Post-election resilience

We've been busy surviving COVID-19, moving to multiple places, and organizing and protesting for Black lives and for abolition, and generally trying to deal with everything that 2020 has thrown at us (dry lightning storms and devastating fires in August? A SCOTUS conservative super majority?…

Close up of someone holding a DIY antenna with a thumb showing

Jen-Mei Wu October 27, 2020

Get your ham radio license on Nov. 2

We're hosting a PaRTEE for future hams! PaRTEE virtual Ham Cram-style study session Monday, 11/2/2020 9:30a-1:30p We're hosting a study session next Monday for folks who want to get their technician (entry-level) license! We picked this day because we know some people who can make…