'Surveillance' Fim and Discussion Series starting Friday Aug 9, 7:30pm

[Danyl Strype]

Tēnā koutou katoa

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Disintermedia.net.nz, in association with Organisation for Global
Nonviolent Action, present 'Surveillance', a series of films and
discussions about the intersections between state/corporate
surveillance, civil liberties, human rights, privacy, anonymity,
encryption, policing, democracy and more. The idea is to use three
films - one each week - as starting points for three open discussions,
the first on developing an inspiring vision, the second on analysing
what we know about the problem, the third on what we can do about it.

This screening series is also a follow-up to the ‘Us Now‘ screening
last year, and again we will be collecting contacts for anyone
interested in getting involved in forming an Otago chapter of Students
for Free Culture.

All three screenings will start at 7:30pm in the Otago Room, at the
OUSA Clubs and Societies Building in Albany St:

Friday 9 August: 'V for Vendetta', followed by a discussion about
vision for a society which respects the rights to privacy and
anonymity

Friday 16 August: 'We Live in Public'
(http://weliveinpublic.blog.indiepixfilms.com/), followed by a
discussion about the problems of surveillance politics and technology

Friday 23 August: 'Free the Network'
(http://archive.org/details/FreeTheNetwork/), followed by a discussion
about tools and tactics for resisting the normalization of
surveillance

There is no charge for entry, but koha to any of the organising groups
is welcome. Please circulate this invitation to anyone who might be
interested.

Kia kaha

--
Danyl Strype
Community Developer
Disintermedia.net.nz/strype

"Geeks are those who partake in our culture."
- .ISOcrates

"Uncomfortable alliances are not just necessary; they reflect and
speak to the tremendous possibility of our political moment."
- Harmony Goldberg and Joshua Kahn Russell
http://www.nationofchange.org/new-radical-alliances-new-era-1337004193

"Both Marxists and Chicago-school libertarian economists can agree
that free software is the best model."
- Keith C Curtis
http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?page_id=407