Flock's Foundation: Surveillance's Long History in the US Settler Colonial Project// La Fundación de Flock: Una larga historia de la vigilancia en el Proyecto Colonial de Asentamiento de EE. UU.
Start: 2026-03-15 11:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
End: 2026-03-15 14:30:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
Location: Studio Two Three• 109 W 15th St., Richmond, VA 23224 US
Event Type:
Hybrid (In-Person & Virtual Option)
A virtual link will be communicated before the event.
Host contact info Richmond DSA Migrant Solidarity Working Group
Bilingual Event // Evento bilingüe
Richmond’s Block Flock Coalition, alongside Southerners Against State Surveillance Infrastructure (@sassisouth), RVA Free School 🧠 (@rvafreeschool), and MapRVA, will be presenting “Flock’s Foundation: Surveillance’s Long History in the U.S. Settler Colonial Project.”
From 1713 lantern laws that criminalized Black and Indigenous people for moving “unlit,” to COINTELPRO, fusion centers, and today’s corporate police tools, surveillance has always been a weapon of conquest. We’ll connect Flock’s license plate readers to slavery, empire, the post-9/11 expansion of the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the global testing of control technologies from borders to occupied lands. We will talk about what it means to fight the infrastructure and not just the contract. Join us in this political education teach in about abolition, anti-colonial struggle, and building a counteroffensive that needs to go beyond reform.
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