Check out highlights from our Color of Surveillance conference!


Dear Friend,

Last week, MediaJustice cohosted the fourth annual Color of Surveillance conference in partnership with Free Press and Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology. Historic patterns of discrimination are taking on ever more insidious digital forms, using technology to oppress and criminalize immigrants, people of color, and the working class — but how harmful can an algorithm be?

We brought together a delegation of Black and brown activists and organizers to answer questions just like that, unpacking the impact of modern surveillance on poor and working class people of color. MediaJustice delegates Laila Nur ([link removed]) of Coworker.org and Cameron Okeke ([link removed]) of BYP 100 spoke about the high rates of surveillance of Black communities and activists, while Tawana Petty ([link removed]) of Detroit Community Technology Project (our newest MediaJustice Network member!) added a grassroots resistance perspective, sharing how community members are redefining safety and mobilizing against a new police surveillance initiative, Project Green Light, in Detroit. Basma Eid ([link removed]) and Gabriela Sandoval ([link removed]) highlighted growing corporate and government
partnerships for data harvesting, including from energy devices, as ICE uses to target and surveil immigrants and people of color in “high-risk” urban or border areas.

MJ’s own Myaisha Hayes outlined our new No More Shackles report ([link removed]) on electronic monitoring, the use of which has increased 140% in the last decade, extending incarceration deeper into our neighborhoods and communities, tracking movement and speech, and curtailing employment opportunities.

Having these spaces to openly discuss and share ideas is critical to our success in resisting discrimination and injustice in communities everywhere. MediaJustice and MediaJustice Network members ([link removed]) are able to lead this work because of you--whether you read emails like this one, donate ([link removed]) , or attend events. We see you and thank you.

Read more about our delegation here ([link removed]) or catch up on live coverage ([link removed]) of the event. Don’t forget — you’re invited to experience more MediaJustice magic in person on Nov. 21 in Washington, DC at our Movement Futures event ([link removed]) !

In Solidarity,

Team MediaJustice


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