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Hi! We are back on Oct 16 already at nGbK! Free registration at https://dnlb.org/tix

Read more at
https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/techno-policing

Join Sonja Peteranderl (BuzzingCities Lab) & Matthias Monroy for a Talk & Q&A on predictive policing & facial recognition in Germany.

📍 nGbK, Berlin
📅 Oct 16, 2025 | 7–9pm
🎟 Free w/ registration (70 seats)

📢 From 19 to 22 March, Disruption Network Lab will hold a four-day conference to assess and discuss the concrete impact of WikiLeaks on war, the military system, intelligence and cybersurveillance, government and diplomatic cables, global economy and art and culture. What remains of this spirit today, and why has this work been so important? How have society and politics changed since WikiLeaks began operating on a global scale? Thirty speakers will discuss the impact and legacy of WikiLeaks materials and leaks at the theater HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1) in Berlin, followed by an activation event where possible future strategies will be shared.

More infos https://dnlb.org/exposing-crimes
Tickets available now https://dnlb.org/tickets-exposing-crimes

1 Day Ticket 15 € (Reduced 9 €) · 3 Day Ticket 35 € (Reduced 21 €)

On April 5th, 2010, WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight. It depicts the indiscriminate slaying of two Reuters news staff and two young children who were seriously wounded after the attack.

Reuters sought the video via a Freedom‑of‑Information request but never received it. The military didn’t disclose how the Reuters staff died or how the children were hurt. After Reuters pressed for an inquiry, the U.S. military investigated and concluded the soldiers’ actions complied with the law of armed conflict and its own Rules of Engagement.

On their website, Wikileaks stated: « WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war. Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work. »

On March 19, Disruption Network Lab invited 5 whistleblowers and journalists to discuss the impact of Wikileaks on War and military, beyond the 2010s.

Exposing Crimes is Not a Crime – HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1)
Day 1 (part2) "War & Military" Tickets available now!

dnlb.org/tickets-exposing-crimes

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📢 From 19 to 22 March, Disruption Network Lab will hold a four-day conference to assess and discuss the concrete impact of WikiLeaks on war, the military system, intelligence and cybersurveillance, government and diplomatic cables, global economy and art and culture. What remains of this spirit today, and why has this work been so important? How have society and politics changed since WikiLeaks began operating on a global scale? Thirty speakers will discuss the impact and legacy of WikiLeaks materials and leaks at the theater HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1) in Berlin, followed by an activation event where possible future strategies will be shared.

More infos https://dnlb.org/exposing-crimes
Tickets available now https://dnlb.org/tickets-exposing-crimes

1 Day Ticket 15 € (Reduced 9 €) · 3 Day Ticket 35 € (Reduced 21 €)

For the past twelve years, the Disruption Network Lab has organised 36 conferences accessible to global audiences and local communities. These conferences have brought together urgent topics ranging from the killing of civilians in war zones and the surveillance of migrants and marginalised communities to strengthening freedom of the press and the right to speak out.


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On friday, all tickets at HAU are half price from 17:00–21:00. Set your reminders now, discounted tickets are limited... dnlb.org/tickets-exposing-crimes
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❤️ We are happy to announce we will be screening two documentary films in cooperation with Sputnik Kino and Acud Kino, in relation with our upcoming event „Exposing Crimes is Not a Crime“ (March 19-21, HAU Hebbel am Ufer HAU1)

16. 03 - XY Chelsea by Tim Travers Hawkins (Sputnik Kino) 🎫 9,90€
XY CHELSEA tells the historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, whose 35-year sentence in an all-male maximum security prison was commuted by President Obama in 2017. XY CHELSEA is the journey of her fight for survival and dignity, and her transition from prisoner to a free woman.

23.03 - Hacking Justice (Acud Kino) by Clara López Rubio* and Juan Pancorbo 🎫 9€/7€
For their documentary film „Hacking Justice” filmmakers Clara López Rubio and Juan Pancorbo followed the legal prosecution of the Wikileaks founder for nine years and gained exclusive access to his legal team led by former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón. The film covers the period up to 2021; The directors will be available for a Q&A after the screening to discuss the period leading up to his release.

* Clara López Rubio will also be speaking on our panel „Global Economy & Corporate Secrets“ on Saturday, March 21 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1).

For more infos, check our website https://www.disruptionlab.org/exposing-crimes-is-not-a-crime#collaboration-events ⬇️

📢 Our event starts in 2 weeks! Don't miss out the chance to meet our exclusive panel speakers: WikiLeaks members, whistleblowers from the CIA, FBI, NSA and the military, journalists, human rights lawyers, artists, and activists discuss war, surveillance, secrecy, and new paths for action and resistance today.

➡️ Make sure you get your ticket now! dnlb.org/tickets-exposing-crimes
1 Day Ticket 15 €(Reduced 9 €) · 3 Day Ticket 35 € (Reduced 21 €)

🧑‍💻 For those who can't make it to Berlin these days, know that our conference will be live-streamed for free on our YouTube channel. The first panel starts on Thursday March 19 at 5pm CET.
https://www.youtube.com/disruptionnetworklab

For more information, check our website here
https://www.disruptionlab.org/exposing-crimes-is-not-a-crime

Tap to Go: Redesigning the Self-Deportation Apps
A workshop by Maisa Imamović

March 20, 14-17:00
Registration required, 15€
transmediale studio

Join Maisa for a workshop examining government-issued voluntary return apps as tools of bureaucracy, marketing, surveillance, and persuasion. Through speculative design and conceptual web development, participants will analyse their aesthetic and rhetorical strategies and create counter-proposals – alternative UX flows or critical mockups that expose, subvert, or reimagine what a “voluntary” return could look like if shaped by transparency, care, or dissent 👾

The workshop is open to artists, researchers, designers, activists, and anyone who feels like urgency and paralysis feel like the same thing right now.

► https://transmediale.stager.co/shop/workshops

The night before, on March 19, Maisa presents her new book at transmediale studio: Maisa in Webland.

Don't miss out our conference this week! You can still get your ticket now: dnlb.org/tickets-exposing-crimes
For those who can't join irl, the full conference will also be livestreamed for free on our website.

MEET OUR SPEAKERS: Chip Gibbons is a constitutional law expert, journalist, and researcher focused on the US national security state. As policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent, a civil liberties organization, he has spent over a decade exposing threats to political expression from national security policy. He is currently writing The Imperial Bureau (Verso Books), a history of FBI political surveillance based on archival research and FOIA documents.

Chip Gibbons will speak in our conference "Exposing Crimes is not a Crime" this coming March 19-20. He will participate in the panel "The Reasons Behind" with Stella Assange and will moderate the discussion on "Intelligence & Cybersurveillance"

Get your ticket now: dnlb.org/tickets-exposing-crimes

MEET OUR SPEAKERS: Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi reported on the Cables for an entire year, exposing among other things how the US put pressure on Italy to stop the extradition and prosecution of CIA officers responsible for the extrajudicial kidnapping and torture of an Egyptian cleric. She has followed the legal persecution of Julian Assange closely, even litigating for the right of the press to gain access to the full set of documents held by various authorities related to the Assange and WikiLeaks cases.

Stefania Maurizi will speak in our conference "Exposing Crimes is not a Crime" this coming March 20. She will participate in the panel "Government & Diplomatic Cables" with Kristinn Hrafnsson (Editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks), Jack Poulson (Executive Director, Tech Inquiry, US), Ewen MacAskill (Reporter, Former Guardian's Defence and Intelligence Correspondent, UK) and Joseph Farrell (WikiLeaks Ambassador).

It's not too late to get your ticket :) dnlb.org/tickets-exposing-crimes