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Building a Toolbox for Non-Violent Resistance: Jamila Raqib and Joi Ito

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Video:

Building a toolbox for nonviolent resistance: MLTalks with Jamila Raqib and Joi Ito
https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/ml-talks-2017-01-25-1/

Summary:

Jamila Raqib, Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution and a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab, speaks about building a toolbox for nonviolent resistance, and its potential both to fight oppressive systems and to preserve democratic rights and freedoms for all.

Media Lab Director Joi Ito continues the discussion with Jamila to find out what that work will require: namely, the creation of an advanced and secure system to analyze and communicate techniques of resistance and defense to diverse groups of people.

Please take time to view this discussion and learn how nonviolent resistance will need to evolve to meet the new challenges.

Fact:

In 2015 the Russian Senate named the Albert Einstein Institution (which, at the time, consisted of only five people) one of the 12 most dangerous organizations in the world.