We fight against spy drones, facial recognition, police body camera secrecy, anti-transparency laws and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones; we oppose “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” — to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government, and attempts to hide what government officials, employees and agencies are doing.
Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. Maureen Webb would like to offer another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass
Join us to learn more about this racist and ecocidal campaign, and how people are fighting to stop it. The program includes:
A short animated film, The Story of Plastic,which summarizes a longer documentary explaining the whole disastrous process.
Speakers:
— Julie Teel Simonds, Center for Biological Diversity, providing an overview of this strategy;
— Miriam Gordon, Upstream Solutions, sharing information about current state and federal bills to reduce plastics;
— Someone from RISE St. James, the community organization in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley leading the fight against the construction of the Formosa Plastics plant (not yet confirmed).
To get the link RSVP to
action@sunflower-alliance.org
Before the meeting:
Watch The Story of Plastic documentary for more background. We have arranged for our participants to stream the film free at any time.
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