Target's Mass Surveillance Police Partnership: A Deep Dive with Marjaan Sirdar

Don’t miss this deep dive into Target's dystopian mass surveillance police partnership. I spoke with South Minneapolis activist and freelance journalist Marjaan Sirdar about his astounding findings after completing a 12-part investigative series titled 21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City: How Target Corp., the City of Minneapolis, and Hennepin County Created a Domestic Spy Program that Rolled Back Civil Rights on its Black Population.

We discuss Target’s high-tech forensics labs, its broad surveillance of anyone who even enters its stores or parking lots, and its partnership with law enforcement to surveil and police Black and homeless youth and adults around their stores. We also dive into Target's role in the wrongful conviction of 15-year-old Madhi Ali, who has already spent half his life in prison for a triple homicide he did not commit. 

LINKS:

21st Century Jim Crow in the North Star City 

Madhi Ali's story

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CALLS TO ACTION:

-PROTECT YOUR DATA, AVOID TARGET AND DELETE TARGET APP

-PUSH FOR EXPANDED DEMANDS FOR THE TARGET BOYCOTT:

   -Divest from policing

   -Divest from funding prosecutors & city attorneys

   -Transparency regarding uses of customer data

   -Divest from its massive surveillance apparatus

   -Call for exoneration of Madhi Ali

   -Expunge Downtown 100 + the geo-restriction lists

-PUT PRESSURE ON TARGET TO MEET ABOVE DEMANDS

-CONTACT HENNEPIN CO ATTORNEY’S OFFICE (612)348-5550 citizeninfo@hennepin.us Request review of cases Target has touched

-PETITION: Target, stop funding police!

-MADHI ALI PETITION

-WRITE TO MADHI ALI, j-pay: OID #236437

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