Color of Surveillance: Take action!

If you attended The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working People, our team would like to help you engage with some of the work that was featured at the conference. Below, you’ll find different campaigns and organizations working to support poor and working-class communities. (Suggestions below are not endorsements.)

Welfare Benefits

• Contact your elected officials and voice opposition to the Public Charge rule and its role in allowing the increased surveillance of mixed-status immigrant families who are living on low-income.
• Support and volunteer with a local organization — Bread for the City (DC)

Unhoused

• Contact your local elected officials and voice opposition to ordinances and laws criminalizing homelessness. Visit housingnothandcuffs.org for more information.
• Support and volunteer with local organizations: Los Angeles Community Action Network (CA); Bread for the City (DC); Miriam’s Kitchen (DC); Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless (DC)

Electronic Monitoring

• Contact your elected officials and voice opposition to the use of electronic monitoring of individuals in the criminal justice system, especially juveniles.
• Support “Mandatory Supervised Release Reentry Freedom Act” (HB 1115) in Illinois and similar legislation in your jurisdiction.
• Follow and support the #NoDigitalPrisons campaign.

Dairy + Farm Workers

• Support and volunteer with local organizations: HEAL Food Alliance; Coalition of Immokalee Workers; Farmworkers of Florida (FL); Migrant Justice of Vermont (VT); Justice for Migrant Workers (Canada)

Amazon

• Support and volunteer with local organizations: Awood Center (MN); Coworker.org; Tech Workers Coalition; Warehouse Workers Resource Center (CA, IL)

Union Busting

• Contact your federal representatives and voice your support for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act in the House.

Truckers

• Support the Real Women in Trucking campaign on Coworker.org

Gig Workers

• Support and volunteer with local organizations: New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NY); Tech Workers Coalition