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Activists and the Surveillance State, Edinburgh

9th March 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression
An evening with Aziz Choudry and Eveline Lubbers

Join us for an evening of discussion with Aziz Choudry and Eveline Lubbers, editor of and contributor to Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression respectively.

We will hear about the surveillance, harassment and infiltration directed against activists, organisations and movements, and what we can learn from this.

Copies of Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression will be available for purchase at the event.

Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Canada Research Chair in social movement learning and knowledge production and a longtime activist. His books include Learning Activism (University of Toronto Press, 2015), Just Work?: Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today (Pluto, 2015) and Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements – History’s Schools (Routledge, 2018).

Eveline Lubbers is an activist investigator and involved with the Undercover Research Group. She is the author of Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and police spying on activists (Pluto, 2012) and Battling Big Business: Countering greenwash, front groups and other forms of corporate deception (Green Books, 2012).

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Details

Date:
9th March 2019
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Organiser

The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh
Phone
+441315576242
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Venue

The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh
17 West Montgomery Place
Edinburgh, EH7 5HA
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