7:30pm Wednesday 9 Oct, Surveillance Series (Rebooted) #1: 'We Live in Public'

[Danyl Strype]

Kia ora koutou

Just a reminder that tomorrow (Wednesday 7 October), Disintermedia and
OGNA will present screening #1 of our rebooted Surveillance Series. We
will be showing '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.

All three films in the Surveillance Series will screen at 7:30pm, in
the Evison Lounge (*not* the Otago Room), at the OUSA Recreation
Centre, Albany St, Ōtepoti/ Dunedin. There is no charge, but koha will
be gladly accepted.

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/

The other two screenings will be:

#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‘
(http://archive.org/details/FreeTheNetwork/), 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.

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

Nau mai, haere mai,

--
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'