CITIZEN ALERT v1.119
TRACKED IN AMERICA
Hope everyone enjoyed my "flipped" news story yesterday. I thought it was a neat thought exercise in putting yourself in another person's shoes. A person living in an occupied country, a person who's own voice is muted out by the massive bellowing media giant that is wielded by its occupier.
For today - this from the ACLU:
American government surveillance didn't begin after 9/11. It started centuries earlier.
Check out the new online documentary "Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance" at http://www.trackedinamerica.org/.
"Tracked in America" has 25 firsthand accounts of what it's like to be spied on by your government. The stories come from all kinds of people who were the subjects of secret surveillance for just being activists--opposing Japanese internment during World War II, speaking out against the Vietnam War, standing up for freedom during the McCarthy era. Six historians give a real sense of context for the history of surveillance.
Tracked in America really puts today's government surveillance news in perspective.
This documentary is great for classrooms, too, and comes with a Teachers' Guide.
I'm watching it and tagging it with "surveillance." What about you?
For today - this from the ACLU:
American government surveillance didn't begin after 9/11. It started centuries earlier.
Check out the new online documentary "Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance" at http://www.trackedinamerica.org/.
"Tracked in America" has 25 firsthand accounts of what it's like to be spied on by your government. The stories come from all kinds of people who were the subjects of secret surveillance for just being activists--opposing Japanese internment during World War II, speaking out against the Vietnam War, standing up for freedom during the McCarthy era. Six historians give a real sense of context for the history of surveillance.
Tracked in America really puts today's government surveillance news in perspective.
This documentary is great for classrooms, too, and comes with a Teachers' Guide.
I'm watching it and tagging it with "surveillance." What about you?
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