With Silkie Carlo. In recent years, the British state has spied on law-abiding environmental activists, democratically elected politicians, victims of torture and police brutality, and hundreds of journalists. With the development of new and emerging technologies, this often lawless use of sophisticated surveillance is becoming increasingly alarming. In 2016 a law called the Investigatory Powers Act was passed in the UK, enabling the British state indiscriminately to hack, intercept, record, and monitor the communications and internet use of the entire population, making it the most intrusive system of any democracy in history. The prospect of a free trade agreement in mass surveillance between the UK and the US has exacerbated the situation, with the US President committed to monitoring all mosques, investigating Black Lives Matter activists, and deporting two to three million people. Silkie Carlo will discuss this critical issue with us. She is the Director of Big Brother Watch, a non-party, non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting privacy and civil liberties in the UK. She is a passionate campaigner for the protection of human rights and freedom, and after working for Edward Snowden’s official defence fund, became the Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty, where she led a programme on Technology and Human Rights, and launched a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act.

Nearest tube station Farringdon. 6.45pm (doors open 6.30).

In this talk Madeleine Rees, Secretary General of WILPF, addresses the past, present and futures of WILPF and considers whether, it is time to re-frame the structures on peace and security.
Thie event has been organised by LSE Library and "FILPS" (which is part of LSE Women, Peace and Security).

In this witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. Carl Cederstrom is Assistant Professor at Stockholm University.

Following the Greater Manchester CND’s AGM, there will be a meeting of North West Labour CND at 2pm – 4pm, to plan its activities in 2019. This meeting is open to all Labour Party members who support CND’s goals of peace and disarmament.