A look back into the Take Back Tech fellowship trainings
When the Take Back Tech Fellowship began, it began in the middle of a pandemic. Mijente and Just Futures Law developed a dynamic curriculum supported by experienced organizers, lawyers and researchers. We held four sessions with the Take Back Tech (TBT) fellows to introduce needed research skills for novel projects that would support organizing and policy campaigns. We used graphic notetaker, Laura Chow Reeves of Radical Roadmaps, to capture complex information and TBT values that would help guide the TBT projects during the fellowship. Below are graphic notes highlighting each of the TBT sessions.
Session 1: Inaugural Meeting of the Fellow
This first graphic notes mark TBT cohort agreements and values setting for the assigned projects.
Session 2: Tech Surveillance Basics
This session focused on the nuts and bolts of technical research of government and corporate contracts, and how to develop and file public record act requests aligned with the goals of organizers.
Session 3: Government and Corporate
Research Skills
This session focused on the nuts and bolts of technical research of government and corporate contracts, and how to develop and file public record act requests aligned with the goals of organizers.
Session 4: Organizing and Policy Strategies
through Abolitionist Values
This session brought in organizers and academics to provide a grounding of abolitionist principles and explain how policy demands can and must be connected to organizing.
