surveillance

I just got an email from a European Distributor who informed me that she would no longer work with United States Dollars as the value has declined so greatly that it is not worth her time. It is a fact that the value of the dollar is low and poverty, poor health, and bad education define the current culture of the United States. In my trips to Germany and Canada it was glaringly obvious that the quality of life in the U.S. was slumping. What's disturbing is that as poverty is on the rise, so is government surveillance. Check out this article from the LA Times distributed by Free Press. Not only are we witnessing the decline of the economy and continuing to be harmed by neoliberal economic strategies that shift social responsibility away from the state, we are being spied on in the meantime. We live in a country where resources go towards snooping rather than saving lives. Gross.

This weekend, my friends at Recreate 68 are organizing The Great Easter Spy Camera Hunt this Saturday. This is a great opportunity to join those of us in Denver in identifying and mapping surveillance cameras that are being installed throughout our city. Having lived in Chicago, where the police put up cameras with flashing blue lights in poor neighborhoods with large numbers of people of color, it is clear that these cameras will be used to reinforce the violence of the state, protect the capitalist thieves in power, and defend murderers from the righteous indignation of the people. So, if you wanna, go get your hunt on and help Recreate 68 mark these cameras so we know our city well for the upcoming protests against the Democratic National Convention!