RSH 33 -- OpSec and the Surveillance State with Tron (6.19.2020)

Recorded June 17, 2020. Peter and Adam talk to Tron (Twitter: @Activist_Arts) about operational/cyber security in Black activism and the U.S. surveillance state. 

Links: 

Interesting panel discussion of Liberians for Black Lives Matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYR6e74QP4 ; 911 dispatchers support defunding the police: https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-911-emergency-dispatchers-are-ready-to-defund-the-police ; Toyin's death: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/oluwatoyin-salau-dead-aaron-glee.html ; "implicit bias" trainings do not work: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/implicit-bias-training-doesnt-actually-change-police-behavior_n_5ee28fc3c5b60b32f010ed48?fbclid=IwAR34Ge_FKxoyhvo_hH8Bwmcqf1kHiHiv94d30SzP-nWRbsq0eDlCX3XWxjg&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANgNQcuPQLu3ZAFlZgS2qLD3EuSZWh2gh6pCQV6fb0L2YsY_l9zI1alvcREbb_uLPohjrfeUcxnRkTBRk50CYeithEEn0bYat9vAbMETmbNVQ5toqIZ4iKoSlnlHNoVCKOWwACQituLTN76rpc4e1ypXi82cPsGPfIyRauHXVLiZ ; Adam's piece on how tech companies support the U.S. war machine: https://www.alternet.org/2014/08/how-google-and-big-tech-companies-are-helping-maintain-americas-empire/?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark ; UN holds panel on police brutality and racism: https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/15/877299937/u-n-human-rights-council-to-hold-urgent-debate-on-police-brutality-racism?fbclid=IwAR3IvoQMX1Q10RjYcJB6e5u4jzJ62Yq-Kg2pOdj8wddrEV30yVMD74R9Daw, letter: https://twitter.com/jdakwar/status/1271624767423029248/photo/3 ; Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing: https://news.trust.org/item/20200617163319-tib7v/?fbclid=IwAR1OI0nh2ns3Yx5X2ztrxayjXBweWIrXMk6OB51fm4-R1oOMvvz-KaRZrDo ; New York Supreme Court rules protesters can be indefinitely detained: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/deeply-disturbing-new-york-supreme-court-judge-rules-protesters-can-be-detained?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0JAtsEoG3xjLEwjWipY6HW5UhSa9nXKdZCrngP-2zEEXW61cPRyRHLD74 ; 

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