Shahid Buttar -- Digital Civil Rights and Civil Protections


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Sep 03 2019 43 mins  
This archived interview with Shahid Buttar may have been done in 2016 but it still applies today.
What rights do we have, how do we protect them, and how do we ensure we can maintain them?

Shahid Buttar is the Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org). He's a constitutional lawyer focused on the intersection of community organizing and policy reform as a lever to shift legal norms, with roots in communities across the country resisting mass surveillance. Shahid has also appeared on Al Jazeera's The Stream with Malik Bilal.

Shahid is running for Congress in 2020. Here are some links to learn more about him and get in touch:
https://shahidforchange.us/
https://www.shahidbuttar.com/
Twitter: @Sheeyahshee
https://www.eff.org/