Resistance Lab: Making and Distributing Media Under Surveillance

Tuesday, June 2nd | 3-5 PM ET

Online

Join Interrupting Criminalization’s Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace, digital security firm Safety Sync Group, and fellow journalists and media makers for a resistance lab! In this two-hour session, we will think through and skill-share ways of keeping our communities and sources safer when reporting in a context of criminalization and surveillance. We will discuss:

• What is the effect of surveillance and criminalization on our work as media makers? 

• What is our responsibility as media makers to criminalized communities? 

• What tools and strategies can we use to make sound decisions about safety, support, and transparency with sources and communities in a context of increasing criminalization? 

• How can we make decisions collaboratively about platform, format, and risk in our work?

We welcome movement journalists and those working in mainstream organizations, as well as activist media makers and communications workers, who face some of the same vulnerabilities and ethical issues as journalists whether or not their work is recognized as journalism. 

Participation in our meetups and resistance labs requires a small application, after which you will receive a link to join. If you have applied and been accepted to a Journalists Concerned about Criminalization Meetup before you will receive a link directly.