Take action 💪
Save the date:
Saturday, August 22
for partying down to celebrate our local wins, and building energy to keep pushing back against surveillance BS!
Talking points for ALPRs 🤨
- Flock Safety is a terrible company, but we need to be clear: we simply do not want unchecked surveillance in our community. 🏘️
- Federal hell 🔥
- If we create surveillance and data, what stops the feds from compelling us to hand it over in service of whatever fucked oppression they pull next?
- Remember, DHS is constantly doing creepy surveillance shit like tracking protestors and doing creepy ad-tech purchases
- I don't know if everyone has noticed, but the federal government is kind of at war with many of its citizens these days
- Let's not fund the systems that will help them do the white nationalist reich they're trying to pull
Evergreen actions 🌲
Even more ideas 💡
- Contact your local police force that's using Flock or other networked cameras and ask them
what their policy will be when those cameras are inevitably used by ICE to
terrorize our community - and then research what happened in the Twin Cities
when people in power had made promises and ICE came in force. [Spoiler alert: promises always get broken in
favor of capital and white supremacy. Wonder why that is?]
- More importantly, contact the people who hold the purse strings for that force, and convince
them to cancel the Flock contracts, as Verona and the Dane County Board have; the next hard part is getting them to not reinvest in identically problematic surveillance.
- Support local Civilian Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS) ordinances and laws
- Support the state constitutional amendment protecting right to privacy
- Support the national ICE Out of Our Faces Act