People in 460 cities will be participating in the week of action.
  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    201·
    4 days ago

    During the Week of Action, which is from August 16-22, thousands of people in cities across the country will participate in a variety of public meetings, townhalls, and other events intended to raise awareness about the use of ALPRs in their communities, the harms of these cameras, and how we can work together to end their use.

      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        I’ll be honest I also assumed direct action instead of awareness campaign

        I mean listen, awareness campaign and getting local officials out either commiting to being against or outing themselves as defenders of this stuff (just before many elections) is useful, it’s just harder to call it “action” lol

      • scraggly0681@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        How do you propose to build a widespread movement (not just people on Lemmy and Reddit) without trying to inform them about the issues with Flock and similar tech?

        The general public has to understand what’s even going on before enough people will care to vote differently or pressure public figures to do actually change it.

        Nobody is saying this week of action is the final step and once it’s over, no one will do anything else about this.