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Now women have to fear getting "caught" by the abortion police.
2naSalit
(87,012 posts)IS ON!!!
Yes!
This is great info and should prove extremely helpful to many.
Marthe48
(17,152 posts)Where I can let pro-abortion activists know that I am willing to shelter people who have to travel? I will donate to Planned Parenthood, and I went to a rally, but I want to do as much as I can. Thank you
milestogo
(16,829 posts)This link is for north central states, but I'm sure they have something for other parts of the country.
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-north-central-states/get-involved/volunteer-opportunities
I went to the PP site before I saw your post, and signed up to volunteer, and made a donation.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Celerity
(43,806 posts)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/04/shoshana-zuboff-surveillance-capitalism-assault-human-automomy-digital-privacy
Its a beautiful day on Hampstead Heath, the last weekend of summer parliament is still prorogued. In a festival tent at the HowtheLightGetsIn festival, Professor Shoshana Zuboff is talking about her recent book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Zuboff stands on a low stage, making eye-contact with her audience. She spies someone who seems unconvinced, invites them to raise their concerns. When this book was published in January, I left home for three weeks on the road, she says. Im still going.
The audience laughs. Because The Age of Surveillance Capitalism a 700-plus page sociological analysis of the digital era has become an epoch-defining international bestseller, drawing comparisons to revolutionary works such as Rachel Carsons Silent Spring. Naomi Klein has urged everyone to read it as an act of digital self-defence.
It describes how global tech companies such as Google and Facebook persuaded us to give up our privacy for the sake of convenience; how personal information (data) gathered by these companies has been used by others not only to predict our behaviour but also to influence and modify it; and how this has had disastrous consequences for democracy and freedom. This is the surveillance capitalism of the title, which Zuboff defines as a new economic order and an expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above.
Later, in an unglamorous spot by some parked vans, Zuboff explains why she wrote her book. She has dark eyes behind horn-rimmed glasses; abundant black curls; a low, resonant voice. She is brilliantly erudite and outlines her argument in trenchant, honed phrases, as if reading aloud. Her work on the themes of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism began as far back as the late 1970s. She was a postgraduate at Harvard, writing a doctorate on the Industrial Revolution. To earn money, she became an organisational change consultant, working in offices that were computerising for the first time. They were expecting immediate productivity, growth, efficiency. But it was chaos, disaster. Crazy stuff was happening. People were saying My work is floating in space!
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milestogo
(16,829 posts)Celerity
(43,806 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That's thinking of women and the need to keep skilled women in the workforce, not jails and nurseries.
And let's remember, we are a big majority and include those in the businesses who make these devices. Most have pent their entire adult lives in a culture that believes in rights to privacy, and many are also liberal or liberal leaning socially. And even misogynistic men want to be able to control their own reproduction. Our problem is not numbers but having been successfully divided.