No Surveillance September is a coalition led campaign to educate our community on the ways in which state sanctioned surveillance appears and harms our communities. Surveillance programs impact us through a wide range of issues- from anti-Blackness and the prison industrial complex, mental health services, school and university campuses, to gender and Islamophobia. This month, we aim to uplift programming to raise awareness, build our collective power, and channel that into collective and organized action.
Rescheduled: TBD
CVE, Anti-Blackness & Islamophobia
This webinar will explore the relationship between anti-Blackness and Islamophobia in the United States and the specific impact this intersection creates. We will learn from different organizers in key cities across the US about how anti-Black racism and policing practices work with CVE to expand the types of violence Black communities experience at the hands of the US government.
Hosted by: Young Muslims Collective, Majdal Center, Pillars of the Community
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9/23 @730PM ET
CVE in Academia and Education
The Students and Communities Against Policing & Surveillance Coalition (SCAPS), invites students to learn about how surveillance and CVE-type programs are being implemented through college and university campuses, and impacting our communities. We will examine CA-based case studies, and will encourage attendees to join our strategizing sessions to build on our campaign. Email scapscoalition@gmail.com with any questions.
Hosted by: The Students and Communities against policing and surveillance coalition (SCAPS), MSA-West, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
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9/28 @8PM ET
Muslim Community Townhall: What is Countering Violent Extremism?
Have you seen folks in our community argue about CVE and wonder, what even is CVE? This is for you! This will be a space to learn and ask questions of Muslim organizers from the #StopCVE National Coalition.
Come learn about the origins of the racist and Islamophobic CVE program and how it targets various Muslim communities in the US. We will explain when CVE emerged, the different ways it appears in communities, and why it's so harmful for Muslims and other marginalized communities. Finally we will briefly go over the new 2020 grants and tips on organizing if CVE is coming to your city
The #StopCVE Coalition is anchored by Muslim Justice League and includes the Palestinian Youth Movement, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus, Believers Bail Out, CAIR-SFBA, MSA West, Defending Rights and Dissent, StopCVE Chicago, MPower Change, American Friends Service Committee, ACLU of NY, Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Majdal Center
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9/30 @10PM ET
#ServicesNotSurveillance
To learn more about how this is playing out in our communities and in particular take a deeper dive into the recently announced grants by the Office on Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP), join Vigilant Love on September 30th for our first public webinar!
Attendees will: gain insight about the history of CVE, understand how mental health is weaponized and criminalized by CVE programs, map out risks posed to individuals, communities and the mental health industry based on case studies, and be empowered with resources and knowledge to know their rights and self-advocate to ensure the mental health resources they seek are safe.
This webinar is for communities impacted, activists, educators, religious leaders, non-profits, philanthropists, creatives, and anyone wanting desecuritized mental health services. Recommended donation is $15, but no one turned away for lack of funds.
Hosted by: Vigilant Love
