“they said in the name of self-defense”: Technologies of Surveillance and the Selling of the In/Security State

Featuring Rabab Abdulhadi, Dylan Rodríguez, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade. Moderated by Craig Willse.

“they said in the name of self-defense”: Technologies of Surveillance and the Selling of the In/Security State was recorded on February 16, 2018 at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence.” For more visit the conference page.

Title quote from June Jordan, “Apologies to all the People in Lebanon,” Dedicated to the 600,000 Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983. From Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005).

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