Who We Are
We are senior organizers, researchers and strategists with expertise in legal analysis, corporate investigation, migration control, and domestic policing. We build research, strategy, campaigns, and networks to scale up the ability of communities, workers, and advocates to build power towards a vibrant democracy.
The Lab is informed by decades of base-building and community organizing, fighting for concrete policy changes and engaging in deep narrative work towards alternative visions of safety and security.
The Surveillance Resistance Lab is fiscally sponsored by the Fund for the City of New York (EIN 13-2612524).
To learn more about our staff and our advisors, please contact us.
Our Work
We fight for power and democracy, not just privacy.
The Surveillance Resistance Lab investigates and makes visible the often obfuscated ways in which tech-fueled governance increases state and corporate power over our lives. By translating research into action, we work with movement partners to nurture and accumulate the power of organizing and resistance—locally and transnationally. Our team fights for the right to dissent and organize, and against the intensification of policing of migrants, workers, communities of color, and more. We challenge how dominant notions of “security” fuel criminalization, exclusion, and dispossession, and protect our ability to build a world where we can all thriv
How We Work
We work IN SERVICE OF BUILDING movement power through:
investigative action research
We engage in investigative and community-centered action research, to support the work of movement partners. Our approach is grounded in reciprocal forms of knowledge production and exchange.
Building Strategies for Change
We identify interventions and develop strategies for concrete changes, including narrative change strategy and popular education resources.
Popular and Political Education
Our educational resources inspire curiosity and a sense of agency. Our approach is grounded in reciprocal forms of knowledge production and exchange.
Networks of Solidarity
We build across movements, cities and borders. We do this to support power building to redefine what democracy is and reclaim our ability to define our future collectively.
