Our Data Bodies - Share Out Wednesday, May 9th at 5pm https://www.facebook.com/events/315168909013664/
Join us for our monthly Our Data Bodies Project Los Angeles Share Out at 5 PM at LA CAN at 838 E. 6th St., LA 90021
In January 2016, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition launched the Our Data Bodies (ODB) project in Los Angeles to deepen and strengthen our on-the-ground work on the impacts of and our collective resistance to surveillance and policing.
Through community meetings, interviews, and workshops, we have collectively been digging at data-driven systems that attempt to define our lives. We have been witnessing how pervasive and persistent data collection and sharing--by law enforcement, health institutions, housing authorities, Department of Children and Family Services, and other agencies--criminalize poverty, foster a culture of fear, suspicion, and policing, and intensifies institutions of oppression and social control.
We have been simultaneously uncovering the impacts of this massive information sharing environment as well as the collective survival strategies, and intergenerational visions we use to free ourselves of these systems of control and oppression. ODB is a three-city research justice effort in Los Angeles, Detroit, and Charlotte, where we have done nearly 135 in-depth interviews with residents in these cities’ most impacted neighborhoods.
Join us for a special evening of sharing, learning, and engaging with this community organizing and research work in these critical times. Let's envision collective resistance, creativity, and transformation needed to reach the systemic changes we need to be seen, not watched, heard not harmed, and to live in a just and humane world.
Doors Open at 5pm Dinner 5:30pm Interactive Share-Out and Solutions 6-8pm
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