We started teasing out all the levels of the way we actually criminalize young people by having surveillance. We started thinking about who's in charge of this and who's really pushing this through, and it was both acutely. Well, it was acutely APS, but also...
Amazon is sort of an interesting case. They track everything you do. Like, when I first came in joining...
Misclassifying—especially truck drivers—as independent contractors, and that's obviously something that's spread to a bunch of other sectors, rideshare being the most obvious one. So now we're seeing this surveillance kind of capitalism based in Amazon and other companies and seeing, again, that this is starting...
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 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...
Part of the reason that this work is so hard is...
What you need to do is attack its legitimacy, because what it's trying to do is use science to legitimize something that has been created—I almost beg to say is almost a lie, like a fabricated lie—that policing is something that is a natural phenomenon....
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...
They have contracts with folks that are monitoring social media content and we know that has actually been going on for some time now. Prior to that, it was not technology. It was just individuals. School resource officers that were surveilling our students and their...
[I]t's like every time we need something as a community… if our community is a food desert, and we want grocery stores, what do we get? Policing. Surveillance. We need housing. We need places to live. And all this gentrification. What do we get? Policing...
