Organizing as Joy: An Ocean-Hill Brownsville Story, with Tranae Moran and Fabian Rogers

A conversation about dismantling surveillance the Brooklyn way.

Organizing as Joy: An Ocean-Hill Brownsville Story, with Tranae Moran and Fabian Rogers In the fall of 2018, the residents of Atlantic Plaza Towers, a rent-stabilized apartment complex in Brownsville, Brooklyn, received an alarming notice from their landlord stating that the key fob system to enter the building was to be replaced with facial recognition technology. More than 130 residents opposed Nelson Management Group’s plan to install the facial recognition system and mandate photographs for mailbox key replacements. Atlantic Plaza Towers resident Tranae Moran led the fight, then celebrated

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