We start off today’s show with our State Terror Roundup.
Then, we look at how surveillance technology is and could be used to aid and enforce anti-trans legislation around the country. We’ll be in conversation with René Kladzyk, an investigative reporter at POGO – the Project On Governmental Oversite, whose reporting has been published in TIME Magazine, Teen Vogue, the Texas Observer, the El Paso Times, and more.
Read René Kladzyk’s piece on surveillance tech and transphobic legislation here: https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2023/06/policing-gender-how-surveillance-tech-aids-enforcement-of-anti-trans-laws
Then, we continue the conversation about technology, but with a focus on how local organizers are finding ways to use tech to support tenants fighting back against problematic landlords. We’re joined by Erin McElroy, a founder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and also an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. They are also an author of the forthcoming book: Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times.
Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is rapper and member of Oakland hip hop crew Living Legends, creator and curator of West Oakland’s now-gone Spirithaus Gallery, and multi-media visual artist, Josh Whitaker, also known as Bicasso.
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