Weather Report #43: Mexican Surveillance, American Surveillance, and Anti-Technology Attitudes

Hello, dear reader! Welcome to your Weather Report, a (sometimes) weekly column where I recommend some articles, a book, a movie, and some music for readers to consume.

Here's what you're getting this week:

1. If you're in Puerto Rico, go to Festival Claridad and watch my short documentary on Saturday
2. Essays, articles, and columns about: Mexico's surveillance state, how cities are fighting back against Flock, the history of the the "anti-tech" movement, and how ICE is messing up other federal agencies' cases.
3. Possibly the best Macbeth adaptation ever put to film.
4. Three songs that feel ripped from a PS2-era urban fantasy RPG

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About 50% of Heavy Weather's subscribers are based out of Puerto Rico. So, if you're here and free on Saturday, April 18, you should head over to Festival Claridad and watch the micro-documentary I co-directed. It's about a Dominican man who claims he was wrongfully deported while in the process of regularizing his citizenship status and how it has affected his family.

It will be playing on Saturday at around 8:30, and we might be showing a preview of our next micro-documentary about the Chinese community in Puerto Rico.

If you're not in Puerto Rico, but would still like to watch it, find it on Youtube.

That's it for this week's free stuff. If you want to see the media recommendations and the link roundup, you can become a paid subscriber today.