Facebook is a vital organising and networking tool. It is beneficial to help people to stay connected, access support networks, and network across borders. So it’s important to understand the …
Digital Privacy
Ensuring that information is accessible to you whenever you need it and not accessible to anyone seeking to exploit it helps to keep us effective and safe. Privacy is not …
Safety & Wellbeing
Activist safety comes in many forms. It includes ensuring that our activist spaces and actions are safe for all. That our data and privacy is safe. Our physical, mental and …
Actions
Actions are specific, visible activities within a broader campaign. This section offers resources on different types of action you may take, and how to plan, execute and evaluate a successful …
Protecting Protest – Protecting Journalism and the importance of Press Freedom
An alarming attack on press freedom is underway, with the WA Police demanding Four Corners hands over all raw footage for their show that has been in the pipeline for …
Unprecedented support for civil disobedience
We have been following the patterns of police behaviour and repressive legislation for nearly two decades, and for the most recent ten years I have been monitoring police all over …
A very private Xmas – a great time to review your online privacy
Labor has teamed up with the Liberals to smash through more over the top Surveillance legislation on the last sitting day of the year – allowing search and detention for …
Covid not so safe – the case for conscientious objection
EDIT NOTE 8/5/20 – Yes, this is a long post. We want to provide context for the bigger picture of some data, privacy and surveillance concerns but also outline the …
Security Culture
People who peacefully resist government policies can be subject to police, intelligence agency, and corporate surveillance. There is a long, documented history in Australia and other countries, going back decades. …
7 reasons to say no to the Corona Tracing Phone App
Why friends don’t let friends endanger friends We are living through this wild ride together – where things don’t make sense. Some activist groups were the first I saw to …