suppression

Climate change, fuel accumulation and an ever-increasing number of homes in vulnerable areas have made fire suppression the primary focus of the agencies that manage public land.

Successful social movements — such as the labor, women’s rights, and civil rights movements — relied on privacy to strategically organize, communicate, and mobilize without interference or suppression from those in power.

Information suppression thus undermines that right to know, and undermines the workings of democracy itself.

Also disastrous would be suppression of health data and information.

Legal challenges to voter suppression and racial discrimination must be paired with mass mobilization.