Power not Paranoia: Learn about Surveillance and Protecting Our Rights
Join WITNESS and The Center for Media Justice – home of the Media Action Grassroots Network – in partnership with Wellstone Action, for a discussion on 21st century policing and immigration enforcement, the impact on our community, what we can to do protect ourselves, and how to turn the cameras away from ourselves and back on law enforcement.
Technology, video and social media have become everyday tools for activists around the world- but they have also become tools for repressive governments and other bad actors. Although the National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden led to a national conversation about mass surveillance, the threats posed by such spying are mostly hypothetical. Unfortunately, the threats posed by targeted surveillance are anything but hypothetical. Communities, especially those that remember the abuses of the FBI in the 60s and 70s, do a lot to protect themselves- but there is always more to know.
The discussion will be moderated by our own Dia Kayyali, who coordinates WITNESS’ tech + advocacy work, engaging with technology companies and working on tools and policies that help human rights advocates safely, securely and ethically document human rights abuses and expose them to the world.
When: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 7-9pm
Where: Matter, New York, NY (more details in RSVP link)
Our panelists include:
Virginia Eubanks – Author of Automating Inequality: How High Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Sarah Aoun – Co-Founder of Tandem
Bina Ahmad – Public Defender of The Legal Aid Society
Luba Cortes – Rapid Response Coordinator at Make the Road New York
Kei Williams – Movement NetLab // Organizer-In-Residency at Civic Hall
Refreshments will be served! Sound interesting? RSVP here.
For activists: Grassroots Digital Security Training
When: March 16, 2018, 9am-5pm