We hope you've been able to take advantage of the longer summer days for some time away or short breaks to enjoy the season. For some, this can be a time to seek shade, or put up the shades to create cool, more peaceful environments for work, play, rest, and everything in between. We're also in a time of constant change and adaptation; acceptance and active response. There are literal forces at work creating harm and massive destruction against people resisting, dismantling, and re-indigenizing systems, particularly people of the global majority - domestically and worldwide. We are also witnessing communities rallying and organizing to take care of one another in the most intentional way, to offer some safety from the storm.

Our August Actionshop seeks to offer a PNW-style raincoat to help shield you, your loved ones, coworkers, fellow advocates, and the people you serve from the digital storms that have been coming our way.

Thursday, August 7 @ 11am-12:30pm

"Data Security: Protecting Ourselves and Our Communities"

offered by Housing Alliance staff

In these times we are living in, our personal data is increasingly being collected, tracked, and used in ways we haven't consented to and that endanger our collective safety. This action-shop will draw on community homelessness response work, mutual aid work, organizing, and more to offer practical tips to protect your data, guard your community's privacy, and reclaim power in a system that increasingly consolidates control through our compliance. Data security isn't just self-defense, it's collective resistance.

12:45-1:30pm - Q&A and Practice Space! We'll take a music break, answer your questions, and practice using tools discussed during the actionshop!

REGISTER for the August 7 actionshop!

We're looking forward to learning alongside you this summer.

Mabuhay!

Ma.Caroline

Ma.Caroline Lopez, MSW

Director of Equity, Racial Justice, and Culture