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2016 (Contact us to add your event to the list)
Throughout June
- Netherlands -Vrijbit (http://www.vrijbit.nl) will once again be promoting ‘1984’ and other important books under the slogan ‘Privacy is a fundamental right- don’t take it for ganted but fight for it’ to all the Dutch bookshops and libraries.
2015
7 June 2015, Sunday
- UK – Anti-surveillance street theatre – Location TBC
2014
8 June 2014, Sunday
- Netherlands – Bookstores and libraries 1984 displays, and other events
http://www.vrijbit.nl/vrijbit-initiatieven/internationale-big-brother-dag/item/993-nederlandse-editie-van-de-3e-internationale-big-brother-dag.html - Birmingham, UK – Anti-surveillance street theatre
4 June 2014, Wednesday
- Belgium, Big Brother Awards
http://www.bigbrotherawards.be
Run up to 1984 Action Day
- Belgium, Front404 Eyestalkers art exhibition
http://www.datapanik.org/2014/05/31/ze-staan-er-en-ze-zijn-fantastisch/
2013
6 June 2013, Thursday
7 June 2013, Friday
- Hanover, Germany – Meeting with Central Police Service of Lower Saxony – having a view on police automatic number plate recognition systems and open discussion about ANPR, maybe also about police drones – (probably) at 1 pm, organized by AK VORRAT Hanover
- Grove Hotel, Watford, UK, Human CCTV
- Nachod, Czech Republic, anti-CCTV action day event
8 June 2013, Saturday
- Hanover, Germany – Surveillance walk, starting at 2 pm in front of Hanover central station (“under the tail” of the monument), organized by AK VORRAT Hanover
- Berlin, Germany – Public site inspection of the video surveillance complex at underground stations “Kottbusser Tor” and “Möckernbrücke” in Berlin, starts at 3 pm from the middle entrance of station “Kottbusser Tor” (ground level), at 4 pm from bridge of station “Möckernbrücke”
- Ulricht, Netherlands
https://www.vrijbit.nl/1over-vrijbit/item/934-big-brother-is-jarig.html - Birmingham, UK – Human CCTV cameras, leaflet distribution, readings from 1984 and music. Contact action@no-cctv.org.uk for more information
- Oxford, Stratford and Leamington Spa, UK – anti-surveillance leaflet distributions
- Hanover, Germany – from 7pm surveillance media evening at LeineLab: watching “The Live of Others” and maybe something more, having a good time together…
- Nachod, Czech Republic, anti-CCTV action day event
- Haymarket, Norwich, UK action day event
“Norwich is one of the worst cities for CCTV, so on 1984 Action Day a few of us who don’t want to live in Orwell’s 1984 went into town and did something. We held up boards with information about CCTV and the myths about it, like the notion that it ‘stops crime’ (it doesn’t). We had a lot of interest from people on the day. We displayed maps of the CCTV cameras in Norwich and people were generally shocked at how many there are. They hadn’t really noticed before.”
- International Working Group on Video Surveillance release statement on Facewatch electronic Wanted Poster system
2012
5 June 2012, Tuesday
- Open summer cinema with films about surveillance, public cuisine in Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany, 9:00 pm
6 June 2012, Wednesday
- CCTV-Walk in Muenster, Germany, 7:00 pm (provided by AK VORRAT Muenster)
8 June 2012, Friday
- Surveillance walk in Berlin, Germany, 4:00 pm (provided by Seminar fuer angewandte Unsicherheit – SAU)
- Release of a new documentation “Video surveillance in Hanover and Lower saxony”, Germany (only in german language, sorry!) (provided by AK VORRAT Hannover)
- PANOPTICON Photography stunt / street theatre in Birmingham city centre, UK. 10am – 4pm – “selling” CCTV camera photos to members of the public to raise awareness of surveillance cameras – in association with no-cctv.org.uk
- Launch of new web site www.WeWatch.org.uk – a site about surveillance in London, UK (hosted by no-cctv.org.uk)
9 June 2012, Saturday
- Interactive surveillance walk in Hanover, Germany, 10:00 am (provided by AK VORRAT Hannover)
- Video art against video surveillance in Berlin, Germany, 9:30 pm
10 June 2012, Sunday
- Surveillance walk in Hildesheim, Germany, 5:00 pm (provided by AK VORRAT Hildesheim)
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