Gray Area Festival 2022 | September 29 - October 2
This event is presented at Gray Area Festival and co-organized by Disruption Network Lab, Goethe-Institut San Francisco (C/Change Project), City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, and Gray Area.
The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today’s information society. What are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contribute to new courses of action?
In this presentation,
Tatiana Bazzichelli introduces for the first time in the US the book
Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice (Nov. 2021, transcript Verlag). Based on the work of Berlin’s Disruption Network Lab and the contributions of 30 authors in the field of whistleblowing and social justice, the book offers a new methodology to empower the public by investigating whistleblowing as a developing practice contributing to change in society, culture, and politics.
Whistleblowing for Change opens to the public unique stories of whistleblowers, journalists, activists, artists, filmmakers, advocates, and critical thinkers.
This panel involves two of the book’s contributors:
Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US), co-author with Cian Westmoreland of
The Kill Cloud: Real World Implications of Network Centric Warfare, a revealing chapter dealing with the present and the future of modern warfare, and
Billie Winner-Davis (former Social Worker, US), who tells the story of her daughter and whistleblower Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media.
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