Abolishing Surveillance - ‘Justice means everyone’ series (1/4) | Abolitionist Futures

Описание: This panel was live on 27 January 2021.

From Schedule 7 to Spycops and Prevent to the Hostile Environment, this webinar will cover some of the elements of the surveillance apparatus that exists in modern Britain, and move us to discussing how we build a movement to abolish it. Speakers include Minnie Rahman (JCWI), Eveline Lubbers (Undercover Research Group), Asim Qureshi (CAGE) and Johanna Kellett-Wright (DocsNotCops). This session will be chaired by Hajera Begum from Abolitionist Futures.

00:00 Introduction
04:40 Spy Cops - Eveline Lubbers
15:59 The surveillance of migrants - Minnie Rahman
26:40 Surveillance and counter terrorism - Asim Qureshi
36:50 Q&A

Twitter usernames
JCWI - @JCWI_UK
Undercover Research Group - @UndercoverNet
CAGE - @UK_CAGE
DocsNotCops - @DocsNotCops
Abolitionist Futures - @ReclaimJustice

Literature recommendations
Introduction to Abolition: the full reading list https://abolitionistfutures.com/full-...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff.
Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech, by Rana Foroohar.
I Refuse to Condemn - Resisting racism in times of national security. Edited by Asim Qureshi.
Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark / Activists and the Surveillance State Learning from Repression, by Eveline Lubbers.
The UK’s Privatised Migration Surveillance Regime: A Rough Guide for Civil Society, by Privacy International.
A Guide to the Hostile Environment - The border controls dividing our communities – and how we can bring them down, by Liberty.
JCWI's Guide to action on the hostile environment

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