What's the role of video in getting at the truth?

On the next Your Call, we'll discuss two films about surveillance and social control featured in the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival: Josh Wolf's Police Tape and Michael Schiller's The After Party. What does the proliferation of video in our society mean for justice, and social control? What kind of surveillance is legal? And does more documentation necessarily mean more truth? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Have you filmed or been filmed by the police? What have been the consequences? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

Josh Wolf, journalist and director of Police Tape about the relationship between law enforcement and being chronicled on video, in light of the recent Oakland BART shooting

Michael Schiller, award-winning filmmaker and director of The After Party about domestic surveillance in the post 9-11 era

Michael Risher, staff attorney with ACLU of Northern California

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When is seeing spying?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about the role of surveillance in society today. More than ever, in this age of digital technology, our actions are being viewed, tracked, and recorded -- usually without us even knowing it. A current exhibit at the SFMOMA, called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 poses questions about the history of seeing and spying. Where are the limits of our civil liberties when it comes to privacy and surveillance? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography at the SFMOMA

Trevor Paglen, artist, writer, and experimental geographer

Linda Lye, staff attorney with the Northern California ACLU

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Your Call 071608 Never Alone, Always Recorded

How has our culture changed because of near ubiquitous surveillance? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the ever shrinking zone of privacy free from government or corporate observation. The NSA could be listening to your phone calls, Google might be taking pictures of your front door and the pizza parlor might be selling your information to marketers. How are we responding, co-opting and resisting the culture of no privacy? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and You.

Guest:
Trevor Paglen in San Francisco
East Bay artist who uses high powered cameras to take pictures of spy satellites

Bruce Schneier in Santa Clara, CA
Security expert and skeptic, founder of Counterpane Security and author of the blog Schneier on Security

Rudolf Freiling in San Francisco
Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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