{"id":2413,"date":"2014-09-30T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:24:47","slug":"heidi-boghosian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/2014-event\/heidi-boghosian\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidi Boghosian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Surveillance or Self Determination: Can Democracy and Diversity Co-Exist in the Age of Google, Comcast, and the NSA?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heidi Boghosian<\/strong> is the executive director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, and the past executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. She has written and spoken extensively on First Amendment rights, her passionate interest. She also co-hosts a weekly, independent radio program, <em>Law and Disorder<\/em>, whose goal is to provide \u201caccess to rare legal perspectives\u201d with a focus on civili liberties and privacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About this Lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Snowden revelations have focused attention on the unprecedented intrusion of surveillance technologies into the lives of citizens. When the state and corporations collude to conceal intrusive surveillance from citizens and to concentrate control over information, the inherent rights of the people in a democracy\u2014 freedom of expression, privacy, access to education, and the vote\u2014become subjugated to the technological power of the state and corporations. The same digital platforms that promised such a bright future in mobilizing people against tyranny based on race, culture, gender, sexuality, disability, and economic status can be turned on their heads to continue practices of silencing diverse dissent.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/new.livestream.com\/accounts\/4896157\/events\/3354648\/player?width=560&#038;height=315&#038;autoPlay=true&#038;mute=false\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><strong>Featured Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylights.com\/book\/?GCOI=87286100948040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/SPYING_ON_DEMOCRACY.jpg\" alt=\"Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Helpful Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/segment\/heidi-boghosian-on-spying-on-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spying and Civil Liberties<\/a><br \/>\n<em>An interview with Bill Moyers about her book <\/em>Spying on Decmocracy<br \/>\n21 February 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2014\/02\/03\/video-story-sanders-town-hall-legal-experts-say-nsas-spying-can-curbed-without-undermining-public-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vermont Town Hall<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Boghosian speaks with Senator Bernie Sanders on dragnet spying<\/em><br \/>\n01 February 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/Heidi-Boghosian-Spying-on-Democracy-Government-Surveillance-Corporate-Power-Public-Resistance-28275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Surveillance<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Boghosian speaks at UC Santa Barbara<\/em><br \/>\n10 February 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/6\/21\/fbis_use_of_drones_for_us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FBI&#8217;s Use of Drones for US Surveillance<\/a><br \/>\nDemocracy Now!<em> interviews Heidi Boghosian<\/em><br \/>\n21 June 2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylights.com\/book\/?GCOI=87286100948040&amp;fa=preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spying on Democracy<\/a><br \/>\n<em>An excerpt from her book<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Surveillance or Self Determination: Can Democracy and Diversity Co-Exist in the Age of Google, Comcast, and the NSA?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":691,"featured_media":2443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6060,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/6060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}