BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250811T204920EDT-6184XGPCnk@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250812T004920Z DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin Amandla and the Right2Know Campaign for a public talk with Aziz Choudry on the Surveillance of Activists.\n\n\n DATE: Monday 3 De cember 2018\n TIME: 10h00 – 12h00\n VENUE: AIDC Solidarity Centre\, 129 Roch ester Rd\, Observatory\, Cape Town.\n RSVP: www.r2k.org.za/rsvp on facebook \, or call 0214471000.\n\n\nAziz Choudry\, activist and Canada Research Ch air in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production at 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ Univers ity\, will be speaking to issues covered in the upcoming book Activists an d the Surveillance State that he has edited. The book documents experience s around the world of the surveillance\, harassment and infiltration that pervades the lives of activists\, organisations and movements that are lab elled as ‘threats to national security’.\n\nProblematising the social amne sia that exists within progressive political networks and supposed liberal democracies\, Choudry will argue that movements can learn from their own repression\, developing a critical and complex understanding of the nature of states\, capital and democracy today that can inform the struggles of tomorrow.\n\nMurray Hunter\, R2K’s Secrecy & Securotisation Organiser\, wi ll share a South African perspective on the surveillance of activists befo re we open for discussion with participants.\n\n \n DTSTART:20181203T150000Z DTEND:20181203T170000Z SUMMARY:Aziz Choudry on the Surveillance of Activists [Cape Town\, SA] URL:/dise/channels/event/aziz-choudry-surveillance-act ivists-cape-town-sa-292206 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR