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DESCRIPTION:What is Occupy Google?\n\nWhy is Net Neutrality important?\n\nWhat can we 
 do about the growing Surveillance Industrial Complex? 
 ”\n\n“Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.” — Bruce 
 Schneier\n\nTechnology and war have always been interrelated. Some 
 historians see the intersection of science, technology and the US military 
 during WW2 as the beginning of the modern Military-Industrial Complex. Yet 
 mass communications technology has also been historically significant in 
 transforming society, from the Gutenberg printing press, to Television’s 
 connection to the 1960s political and social upheaval, to the rise of the 
 Internet. \n\nAs the Bay Area tech industry becomes the de facto center of 
 global technological innovation, its ties to the Pentagon and US 
 intelligence agencies are becoming more and more apparent. Companies like 
 Hewlitt-Packard, Google, Palantir, and Amazon all have close ties to the 
 same military and intelligence establishment that Bay Area activists have 
 been organizing against since the 1960′s. With our basic liberties, such 
 as right to assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of Privacy and the right 
 to a jury trial all under a concerted attack by the government, it should 
 be of increasing concern that the companies we depend on for  communicating 
 and accessing information are also dependent on Defense establishment 
 contracts and ties to appease their shareholders and continue their 
 monopolies.\n\nWith the Internet becoming such a force for change and 
 democratizing power, why is it under attack right now? The Internet as we 
 know it, free and open, is being threatened by Federal government 
 appointees. Many called Occupy “The Internet generation.” From the Arab 
 spring to Occupy, the Internet and social media tools were key tools for 
 communication. The Internet is a deterritorializing force that is upending 
 the established modes of power and decision-making.  This talk will delve 
 into all these questions and more and what we can do to fight back and 
 build the world we want to see.\n\nQ&A and Announcements will follow. 
 \n\nDonations to OccupyForum to cover our costs are encouraged; no one 
 turned away!\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/07/18758332.php
SUMMARY:Occupy Forum — Google and the Surveillance Industrial Complex
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street near the 16th and Mission Street 
 BART\nSan Francisco CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/07/18758332.php
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