Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Re

Paperback, 336 pages: The Department of Justice sought data on all who visited DisruptJ20.org ahead of Trump’s inauguration. Undercover agents infiltrated Black Lives Matter protests, police try to stop bystanders from filming, and states pass “ag-gag” laws criminalizing exposure of factory farm abuse. Across the U.S., dissent and poverty are increasingly punished. Abolishing Surveillance explores how activists resist by using digital media—Latinx copwatchers in New York, Muslim and Arab American organizers in Minneapolis, undercover animal rights activists, and countersummit protesters. Tracing struggles from the 1980s to today, the book shows how technology can empower when rooted in grassroots organizing.