Invite: Aziz Choudry on the Surveillance of Activists
Join Amandla and the Right2Know Campaign for a public talk with Aziz Choudry on the Surveillance of Activists.
- DATE: Monday 3 December 2018
- TIME: 10h00 – 12h00
- VENUE: AIDC Solidarity Centre, 129 Rochester Rd, Observatory, Cape Town.
- RSVP: www.r2k.org.za/rsvp on facebook, or call 0214471000.
Aziz Choudry, activist and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production at McGill University, will be speaking to issues covered in the upcoming book Activists and the Surveillance State that he has edited. The book documents experiences around the world of the surveillance, harassment and infiltration that pervades the lives of activists, organisations and movements that are labelled as ‘threats to national security’.
Problematising the social amnesia that exists within progressive political networks and supposed liberal democracies, Choudry will argue that movements can learn from their own repression, developing a critical and complex understanding of the nature of states, capital and democracy today that can inform the struggles of tomorrow.
Murray Hunter, R2K’s Secrecy & Securotisation Organiser, will share a South African perspective on the surveillance of activists before we open for discussion with participants.
