FREE DISCUSSION ABOUT GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE

Description: Recent revelations about government surveillance, such as Snowden’s leak of NSA documents, have renewed worldwide attention to questions around privacy. Why is privacy important? What are the uses of surveillance? What are the dangers? What are the scope and consequences of government surveillance, and what are the ethical and legal limits of surveillance practices? This is the focus of “Keeping Tabs on America: Surveillance and You,” a free conversation with Kristian Williams on Saturday, April 14 2018 at 2:00 pm at Baker County Public Library, 2400 Resort St, Baker City. This program is hosted by Baker County Library District and sponsored by Oregon Humanities. Williams has studied state surveillance for almost twenty years, writing as both a scholar and a journalist. He is the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America; American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination; and Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy. He is one of the editors of Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency, as well as an occasional contributor to Counterpunch, Toward Freedom, and In These Times. Through the Conversation Project, Oregon Humanities offers free programs that engage community members in thoughtful, challenging conversations about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state's future. For more information about this free community discussion, please contact library staff at 541-523-6419 or info@bakerib.org. Oregon Humanities (921 SW Washington, Suite 150; Portland, OR 97205) connects Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform communities. More information about Oregon Humanities’ programs and publications, which include the Conversation Project, Think & Drink, Humanity in Perspective, Idea Lab, Public Program Grants, and Oregon Humanities magazine, can be found at oregonhumanities.org. Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust.