Industrial Complex

We will again be using a pay-what-you-wish policy with a modest minimum class enrollment fee of $12. Please feel free to use the TIP FEATURE to add additional remuneration to support the delivery of these classes if you desire. In particular, we would like to fund administrative help to produce and distribute these classes. Thank you!

We will again be offering scholarships as they are funded (in part by overage from PWYW above), so please ask about this option as well. You may SIGN-UP FOR CLASS BELOW.

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX 5 WILL BE HELD 10/2 @PM EDT.

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX 5:  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2018. 9pm EST

Domestic terrorism, women, and the state. 

We will again be using a pay-what-you-wish policy with a modest minimum class enrollment fee of $12. Please feel free to use the TIP FEATURE to add additional remuneration to support the delivery of these classes if you desire. In particular, we would like to fund administrative help to produce and distribute these classes. Thank you!

We will again be offering scholarships as they are funded (in part by overage from PWYW above), so please ask about this option as well. You may SIGN-UP FOR CLASS BELOW.

Cops and Computers: Big Data Knows What You Did This Summer https://thecrimereport.org/2018/07/18/cops-and-computers-big-data-knows-what-you-did-this-summer/#

A pioneer in predictive policing is starting a troubling new project https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/26/17285058/predictive-policing-predpol-pentagon-ai-racial-bias

Google's retreat from AI contract is unlikely to cool the Pentagon's love for Silicon Valley http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dod-silicon-valley-20180614-story.html#

Tech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting todayhttps://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/jedi-10-billion-department-of-defense-bidding/

CIA Tech Official Calls Amazon Cloud Project ‘Transformational’ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/cia-tech-official-calls-amazon-cloud-project-transformational

Amazon Promises “Unwavering” Commitment to Police, Military Clients Using AI Technology

Silicon Valley firms are facing a rise in anger from a new source: Their own employees https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/tech-ceos-are-losing-unilateral-power-rapidly-in-a-new-unexpected-way.html

By Turning Down 23andMe, Immigration Activists Are Actually Being Responsible About Genetic Privacy https://futurism.com/23andme-immigration-activists-data-privacy/

How to Lie with Rape Statistics: America's Hidden Rape Crisis http://hollander.grady.uga.edu/liewithrapestats.pdf

When Sexual Assault Victims Are Charged With Lying https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/opinion/sunday/sexual-assault-victims-lying.html

The Criminalization of Rape Victims https://www.thenation.com/article/criminalization-rape-victims/

When anti-violence backfires https://www.salon.com/2012/06/02/when_anti_violence_backfires/

Mass Shootings and the Costs to DV Survivors: A Q&A With Lauren Chief Elk https://rewire.news/article/2017/12/19/mass-shootings-costs-dv-survivors-qa-lauren-chief-elk/

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State http://notchesblog.com/2016/03/10/histories-of-sexuality-and-the-carceral-state-part-1/

Five Ways the Media-Driven Rape Kit ‘Backlog’ Narrative Gets It Wrong https://theappeal.org/five-ways-the-media-driven-rape-kit-backlog-narrative-gets-it-wrong-99a02956df06/

Feminism and Abolition with Angela Davis https://youtu.be/k0ieCAUWGnM

Honoring Indigenous Women: Resisting V-Day, OBR and Carceral Feminism http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2014/02/14/indigenous-women-resisting-v-day/

How Anti-violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/01/how-anti-violence-activism-taught-me-to-become-a-prison-abolitionist/

Letter to the Anti-Rape Movement https://carceralfeminism.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/lettertoantirapemovement.pdf

SXSW Summit Illustrates Systemic Problems in How We Address Online Harassment https://modelviewculture.com/news/sxsw-summit-illustrates-systemic-problems-in-how-we-address-online-harassment

When Movements Backfire: Violence Against Women and Online Harassment https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/when-movements-backfire-violence-against-women-and-online-harassment

Drone Feminism: When Feminists Get a Drone https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/drone-feminism-when-feminists-get-a-drone

Sex, Money, and the Trillion Dollar Shadow https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/sex-money-and-the-trillion-dollar-shadow

Sex Work and Surveillance https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/sex-work-and-surveillance

Palantir and Salesforce Are Enabling  Anti-Trafficking Organizations to Fight Back, Thanks to Funding Help From Google https://www.palantir.com/pt_media/how-google-is-fighting-sex-trafficking-with-big-data/

Even in Prison, Private Equity Is King https://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2012/08/02/even-in-prison-private-equity-is-king/

Welcome to Virtual Reality: Valid Identification Required https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/welcome-to-virtual-reality-valid-identification-required

Google Gives $11.5 Million to Reform the Criminal Justice System https://www.triplepundit.com/2017/02/google-gives-11-5-million-to-reform-the-criminal-justice-system/

Technology, Policing and Our Brave New World: Why Feminists Should Care About Law Enforcement Facial Recognition Systems https://www.shatteringtheceiling.com/technology-policing-feminists-police-facial-recognition/

INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX 4: INTERLOCKING SYSTEMS.

SAVE THE DATE: 8/1 9pm

Full class announcement to follow. We will be teaching a class on the interlocking systems of the state apparatus (financial, legislative, enforcement, military, political) that contribute to violence and oppression. While the effects of violence can be seen and felt, it is sometimes hard to identify their root causes, many of which can be traced back to the nature of money itself and how it operates over a global system. 

We will again be using a pay-what-you-wish policy with a modest minimum class enrollment fee of $12. Please feel free to use the TIP FEATURE to add additional remuneration to support the delivery of these classes if you desire. In particular, we would like to fund administrative help to produce and distribute these classes. Thank you!

We will again be offering scholarships as they are funded (in part by overage from PWYW above), so please ask about this option as well. You may SIGN-UP FOR CLASS BELOW.

We will be back to run a class on how tech and money are converging, how financial technology is regulated (or not), and how tech functions to gatekeep access to money over the internet.

Class will be held NOVEMBER 14 @ 8pm EASTERN, digitally broadcast.

We will be implementing a pay-what-you-wish policy with a modest minimum class enrollment fee of $12. Please feel free to use the TIP FEATURE to add additional remuneration to support the delivery of these classes. 

We will again be offering scholarships as they are funded (in part by overage from PWYW above), so please ask about this option as well.

You may SIGN-UP FOR CLASS HERE. 

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IF YOU ARE A RETURNING STUDENT:

Please use the same email that you used to register for the first class. CHECK YOUR EMAIL FOR A COUPON CODE TO RECEIVE A DISCOUNTED SIGN-UP FOR THIS CLASS.

If you do not require a discount, your full fee will be applied to scholarship seats for this class.

IF YOU ARE A NEW STUDENT: You may also add-on access to the recording and Q&A from the first class.

** IF YOU WOULD PREFER NOT TO USE PAYPAL: Please send a giftrocket for the class amount to [email protected], Make a note in your payment that it's for the class & the name you signed up under so we can credit you for payment.

For further alternatives, contact @bardotsmith or @ChiefElk. **

The class was full last time. With returning students, scholarship seats, and new students, we expect a larger class but the # of seats is still capped. 

101 covered basics. We will be focusing on specific examples and direct action & solutions in 102. 

Reading List

#PICPolicyChat https://storify.com/ChiefElk/picpolicychat

How Private Equity Found Power and Profit in State Capitols http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/business/dealbook/private-equity-influence-fortress-investment-group.html?_r=0

Why Would A Prison Corporation Restructure As A Real Estate Company http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattstroud/2013/01/31/why-would-a-prison-corporation-restructure-as-a-real-estate-company/#469da6aa2cca

Real reason behind prison explosion http://jacksonville.com/business/columnists/2014-12-29/story/guest-column-real-reason-behind-prison-explosion#

The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex http://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/dylan-rodriguez-the-political-logic-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/

#DecolonizeDVAM/#DecolonizeSAAM:: The NPIC and Movement Co-Opting http://save-wiyabi-project.tumblr.com/post/100588926966/decolonizing-the-anti-violence-movement-and + http://save-wiyabi-project.tumblr.com/post/82700012595/decolonizesaam-week-3-the-non-profit-industrial

Big money behind war: The Military Industrial Complex http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/01/big-money-behind-war-military-industrial-complex-20141473026736533.html

Sexual Assault + Academic Industrial Complex http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22173-the-rise-of-the-academic-industrial-complex-and-campus-sexual-assault

Venture Capital 101 http://www.ctl.cornell.edu/events/ipp042915/VC101-Presentation.pdf

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance http://web.mit.edu/voila/www/trashbin/ForFun/corporatefinance.pdf

Why Only One Top Banker Went to Jail for the Financial Crisis: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-banker-jail-financial-crisis.html

Private Equity’s Free Pass: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/business/private-equitys-free-pass.html

A Short History of Financial Deregulation in the United States http://cepr.net/documents/publications/dereg-timeline-2009-07.pdf

Thanks to donor generosity, we have a few seats available as scholarship. 

Thank you, ADM!