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Helen Ceballos, Heriberto Ramírez, y Celiany Rivera Velázquez: Historias Orales de Vigilancia
Nosotros nacimos con una cámara de vigilancia, del Imperio mirando a este estado. Y que a veces uno interioriza y normaliza. Entonces cuando uno entra en procesos de conciencia uno dice: “Esto no está bien.” …Creo que eso es uno de los grandes retos en espacios colonizados y como a través del apoderamiento individual…
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Xanat Sobrevilla: Oral Histories of Surveillance
I think now we’re seeing how surveillance is also another venue where bodies are profit and why basic demands to exist are so difficult to achieve. There’s a lot of enticement not to allow people to move or to stay or have rights and so I think now what I am realizing is how truly…
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Homayra Yusufi: Oral Histories of Surveillance
I started volunteering for the Council on American Islamic Relations, and working with them I started learning even more about how the government was surveilling our communities. I actually started working with them part-time in college and there was a leak at Camp Pendleton of someone who’d taken a whole bunch of confidential information out.…
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Jacinta González: Oral Histories of Surveillance
Part of the reason that this work is so hard is… it feels like part of the work that we’re constantly doing is peeling back the curtain and trying to see what’s happening. Then, trying to understand what’s happening. Then, how do we explain it to people? How do we fight it? It’s a constant…
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Victoria Copeland: Oral Histories of Surveillance
There’s a lot of people who do research on Black families and speak for Black families and it’s like, you have a degree of separation [and] you think you can just separate the research from your personal life and you probably can, because you have that privilege. I can’t. A lot of us can’t. That’s…