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DESCRIPTION:"...suggests that dissent is what rescues democracy..." (Lewis 
 Lapham)\n\nMonday, September 30			\nHEIDI BOGHOSIAN\nSPYING ON DEMOCRACY: 
 Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance\nin 
 conversation with ROBERT SCHEER\n\n"Heidi Boghosian's Spying on Democracy 
 is the answer to the question, 'if you're not doing anything wrong, why 
 should you care if someone's watching you?'" \n-- Michael German, Senior 
 Policy Counsel, ACLU and former FBI agent\n\nUntil the watershed leak of 
 top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the 
 Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our 
 government is actively acquiring personal information from 
 telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly 
 clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on 
 every phone call Americans have made over the past seven years. In that 
 same time, the NSA and the FBI have gained the ability to access emails, 
 photos, audio and video chats, and additional content from Google, 
 Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, YouTube, Skype, Apple, and others, allegedly in 
 order to track foreign targets.\nIn Spying on Democracy, National Lawyers 
 Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase 
 in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our 
 privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself. 
 Boghosian reveals how technology is being used to categorize and monitor 
 people based on their associations, their movements, their purchases, and 
 their perceived political beliefs. She shows how corporations and 
 government intelligence agencies mine data from sources as diverse as 
 surveillance cameras and unmanned drones to iris scans and medical records, 
 while combing websites, email, phone records and social media for resale to 
 third parties, including U.S. intelligence agencies.\n\nThe ACLU's Michael 
 German says of the examples shown in Boghosian's book, "this unrestrained 
 spying is inevitably used to suppress the most essential tools of 
 democracy: the press, political activists, civil rights advocates and 
 conscientious insiders who blow the whistle on corporate malfeasance and 
 government abuse." Boghosian adds, "If the trend is permitted to continue, 
 we will soon live in a society where nothing is confidential, no 
 information is really secure, and our civil liberties are under constant 
 surveillance and control." Spying on Democracy is a timely, invaluable, and 
 accessible primer for anyone concerned with protecting privacy, freedom, 
 and the U.S. Constitution.\n\nHeidi Boghosian is the Executive Director of 
 the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive Bar Association established in 
 1937. She co-hosts the weekly civil liberties radio program, "Law and 
 Disorder," which airs on Pacifica's WBAI in New York and on over 50 
 national affiliate stations around the country. She has published numerous 
 articles and reports on policing, protest, and the First Amendment, 
 including The Policing of Political Speech, Applying Restraints to Private 
 Police, and The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent. Her 
 book reviews have been published in The Federal Lawyer and the New York Law 
 Journal. She received her JD from Temple Law School where she was 
 editor-in-chief of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review. She also 
 holds an MS from Boston University College of Communication and a BA from 
 Brown University. She is admitted to practice law in Connecticut, New York, 
 the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Supreme Court. \n\nOur 
 guest interviewer, Robert Scheer, has built a reputation for strong social 
 and political writing over his 50 years as a journalist. His in-depth 
 interviews and columns -- which appear in publications around the world -- 
 -have made headlines. Scheer is Editor-in-Chief of the Webby Award-winning 
 political website, Truthdig.com, for which he writes a weekly column. He 
 can be heard on the political radio program Left, Right and Center on KCRW 
 and in the classrooms of the USC Annenberg School for Communications, where 
 he is a Clinical Professor of Communication. Scheer is the recipient of PEN 
 Center USA’s 2012 First Amendment Award, the national Society of 
 Professional Journalist’s award for best independent online column, and 
 the 2011 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media, among 
 other accolades. He has written and edited 11 books and is currently 
 writing a book on privacy and surveillance.\n\n7:30 PM at the Hillside Club 
 (2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley)\nTickets: $12 general, $8 students; $15 at 
 the door\nBrown Paper Tickets online or 800-838-3006\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/08/18742926.php
SUMMARY:Heidi Boghosian talks with Robert Scheer: SPYING ON DEMOCRACY
LOCATION:Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street. Berkeley CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/08/18742926.php
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