'Surveillance' Series Reboots - 3 Weds in October in Evison Lounge

[Danyl Strype]

Tēnā koutou katoa

Due to disruptions to the original schedule for the 'Surveillance'
film and discussion series caused by the GCSB public meeting and uni
holidays, and in response to feedback from a number of people that
Friday nights were a bad time for political film screenings, a
decision has been made to reboot the series with three Wed night
screenings in October (note: this means the planned screening of 'Free
the Network' this, Friday 6 Sept, is postponed).

#1 Wednesday 9 October: Screening 'We Live in
Public'(http://weliveinpublic.blog.indiepixfilms.com/), followed by a
discussion on a vision for a society which respects the rights to
privacy and anonymity.

#2 Wednesday 16 October: Screening of 'Taking
Liberties'(http://www.noliberties.com/), followed by a dicussion on
the problems of surveillance politics and technology, globally and
locally.

#3 Wednesday 23 October: Screening of 'Free the Network', and a
discussion on what people can do to defend our privacy, both
politically and practically.

The GCSB Bill passed by a one-vote majority, and the TICS Bill is
still working its way through Parliament, but with determined public
resistance, the incremental expansion of state surveillance can be
stopped and rolled back. Let's talk about what that would look like in
practice.

While Disintermedia and Organisation for Global Nonviolent Action
initiated this series, we invite other groups concerned about this
issue to co-promote the screenings, and join the discussion. A .PDF of
the poster for series will be posted at disintermedia.net.nz/blog as
soon as it's designed.

Also, because all three of our films illustrate the intimate
relationship between surveillance and digital technology, contact
details will be collected from anyone interested in helping form an
Otago branch of the international 'Students for Free Culture network'
(http://freeculture.org/).

Please forward on this invite to anyone who may be interested in
attending any of these screenings.

Haere mai
Danyl Strype


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

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

"Voting... is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The
last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will
get a version of it through a dessicated question, and then will
submerge it in a Niagra of similar opinions, and convert them into -
what else? - another piece of news. Thus, we have here a great loop of
impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which
you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you
can do nothing."
- Neil Postman, 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'