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  • American Indians in NC: Sappony Spotlight

    Extraordinary Ventures 200 S. Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Kara Stewart, a member of the Sappony Nation, will speak to us about it, its history and current status.  The nation is indigenous to both North Carolina and Virginia, mainly in the piedmont regions.   According to the NC Department of Administration there are 9 recognized Indian nations in NC, and the Sappony is one of […]

  • Flock Cameras: The Risks of Building a “Local” (but really national) Surveillance Network

    Virtual Program using Zoom

    Automated license plate reader cameras are often presented as simple crime-fighting tools, but systems like Flock create a searchable record of where ordinary people drive, when they travel, and who they may be visiting. This talk will explain how these camera networks work, why they raise serious privacy and civil liberties concerns, and why communities […]

  • The State of Reproductive Rights in NC: How We Got Here, and Where We Go From Here.

    Extraordinary Ventures 200 S. Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Attacks on abortion access and reproductive freedom have long been rooted in patriarchal efforts to control other people's bodies. Despite the fact that North Carolina has a history of being a more moderate state on abortion access (some abortion was legal in NC pre-Roe), the past 15 years have seen a dramatic restriction on access […]