Events

Host: Munira Lokhandwala & LittleSis This training will focus on teaching participants the basics of how and why engaging in "power research" can be a useful methodology for organizers challenging power and working toward justice wherever they are. We’ll share inspiring examples of how “power research” can support long term challenges to corporate power and […]

This roundtable discussion is open to in-person attendees to think, talk and work through the day's mapping workshops. This roundtable is about taking stock, asking questions, and putting stuff to work.

Host: Kevin Walby & Centre for Access to Information and Justice This in-person lecture, Q& A and workshop will provide information on how to use Freedom of Information requests.  This paper/presentation draws from the results of research on ATI and FOI in Canada to reflect on ways of making sense of disclosures and turning these […]

Host: Lucy Parsons Lab This interactive workshop will cover inverse surveillance techniques, including leveraging public records and open source intelligence tools. From the Lucy Parsons Lab website: Lucy Parsons Labs is a charitable Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues. […]

Host: Patricio Davilla, Philip Zigman & RenovictionsTO This in-person lecture will cover participatory data reporting. RenovictionsTO is a volunteer-run project that asks tenants to anonymously report their landlords to help document eviction-by-renovation practices. In this workshop, participants will learn to develop and use the tools and information they need to share anonymous eviction data on […]

Host: A.J. Withers & ImpacToronto This in-person lecture and interactive workshop will show how to use freedom of information requests to uncover and mobilize state knowledge. Information Mobilization and Public Accountability Collective of Toronto (IMPACT) is a grassroots collective that organically emerged to conduct Freedom of Information (FOI) research about homelessness and strategically make it […]

This roundtable discussion is open to in-person attendees to think, talk and work through the day's lectures and workshops. This roundtable is about taking stock, asking questions, and putting stuff to work.

Host: Severin Halder, Paul Schweizer & kollektiv orangotango Informed by our years of practices as activists, critical geographers, and popular educators at kollektiv orangotango and the notanatlas.org platform, this workshop aims to introduce activist groups, students and academic researchers to how collective/critical cartography can contribute to their work, especially regarding using open data. The workshop will […]

Host: Annita Hetoevehotohke'e Lucchesi & Sovereign Bodies Institute Informed by her decade-long experience as a cartographer and research investigating data governance and gender and sexual violence against Indigenous peoples, Hetoevehotohke'e Lucchesi will introduce how data visualization techniques can be used by activists and scholars in combating extractive industries and fostering relations of care and support […]

Host: Petra Molnar & Refugee Law Lab This in-person lecture will cover resistance through storytelling and visual imagery. From their website: We are a visual storyteller, filmmaker, and photographer working with a lawyer and anthropologist to weave together complex stories on the use of violent technologies at the border. Our interdisciplinary team employs a slow […]

Host: Etienne "Tek" Maynier & Amnesty International This in-person talk and interactive workshop will cover countering digital surveillance with technical research, data and art.  Digital surveillance has insidiously found a place in each aspect of our life, from telecom providers knowing where is our mobile phone in real time to social media platforms profiling our […]

Since 2019, Mijente has worked to expose tech’s outsized role in policing and immigration enforcement, taken direct action to confront corporate actors, organized with stakeholders to leverage their influence over Silicon Valley, and more. The #NoTechForICE campaign has raised the alarm on technology fueling the acceleration of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations including drones, facial […]

This roundtable discussion is open to in-person attendees to think, talk and work through the day's storytelling workshops. This roundtable is about taking stock, asking questions, and putting stuff to work.