Philadelphia Social Forum "Connecting global movements for networked justice"

Philadelphia Social Forum "Connecting global movements for networked justice"
Connecting global movements for networked justice
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
https://www.ussocialforum.net/node/889

Another world is only possible through sustained collaboration and
solidarity with movements all over the globe. The World Social Forums
bring together these movements for a moment in time, and must rely on
our information and communication networks, the internet, to build and
sustain collaboration on global social justice issues.

Worldwide, resistance movements are connecting with struggles in the US,
using posters and hashtags to show their solidarity. Last year at a Gaza
solidarity demonstration, a protestor holds a sign that declares 'We are
Ferguson, We are Gaza, because We are Human'[1].

How can social movements in the US and Canada connect with global
struggles against oppression and domination? What threats exist to our
global solidarity movements, which rely ever more heavily on corporate
platforms like Google, Facebook and Twitter, to connect and organise?

This workshop will explore three specific sites of contestation and
resistance in the global movements for networked justice:

Discussing the increasingly privatized and shrinking space for online
activism, participants will discuss the ways in which corporations like
Google and Facebook are using our stories, our data, to map social
movements in ways that make us vulnerable to private and government
infiltration. [Presenters] will share some of the ways in which social
justice movements are resisting surveillance, including using free and
open source software.

Taking a queer feminist perspective to networked justice, workshop
facilitators will share stories from the TakeBackThe Tech campaign to
respond to online violence against women, and APC's Erotics project,
which advocates for internet policies and practices that respect sexual
rights.

Finally, participants will explore the possibilities for economic
justice in the digital age. Reflecting on growth of platforms like Etsy,
Airbnb and Uber, participants are invited to share experiences and ideas
for wealth distribution that is not based on the current capitalist
model that rests power with intermediaries.

[1] http://red-party.com/resistance-from-ferguson-to-gaza/