James Kilgore

Dec 27, 2024 | publici.ucimc.org | James Kilgore

0 Flares 0 Flares × In September of 2023 a mysterious journalistic force bombarded our county with hysterical pseudo-newspapers under the banner Chambana News. Though they took the form of an advertising sheet from Walmart or Menard’s, they were actually a classic example of disinformation, combined with misinformation.

Aug 15, 2024 | portside.org | James Kilgore

Palestine Has Mobilized a Global Movement. For It To Last We Must Get Organized.

Jun 24, 2024 | znetwork.org | James Kilgore

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, I often attended rallies for political prisoners — the campaign to free Angela Davis and the Soledad brothers, support for veterans of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, mobilizations for women like Inez Garcia and Joan Little who had slain their assailants. In participating in those events, I could be almost certain most of the crowd had taken part in antiwar demonstrations. Internationalism was a core part of our political identity.

Dec 17, 2023 | znetwork.org | James Kilgore

In the past 15 years, policing has grown its reach, largely through an array of technologies that record and store our personal details and daily activities. Using algorithms and other formulae, authorities are able to repurpose data to meet the emerging demands of the criminal legal and immigration systems. From predictive policing to GPS-enabled ankle monitors to gunshot trackers to massive interlinked databases, police are extending their capacity to track and control.

Aug 28, 2023 | publici.ucimc.org | James Kilgore

0 Flares 0 Flares × FirstFollowers has a tradition of doing participatory action research at Champaign-Urbana Days, the premier outdoor summer event aimed primarily at the Black community. Participatory Action Research (often called PAR) aims to gather data and information, not just for publication but to bring about change.