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[podcast_subscribe id="23590"] Michael Salamone chats with Evan Greer about her new album, "Spotify Is Surveillance," her work with Fight for the Future and all things Surveillance Capitalism. Evan Greer is a trans/genderqueer activist singer/songwriter, parent, and organizer based in Boston. She writes and performs high-energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance. Evan tours internationally as a musician and speaker, and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. Wielding an arsenal of fiercely radical songs that vary in style from pop-punk poetry to foot-stompin’ bluegrass singalongs, Evan has been honored to collaborate, tour, and share stages with artists as musically diverse as Pete Seeger, Against Me!,Talib Kweli, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Against Me!, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Michael Stipe (REM), Amanda Palmer, Immortal Technique, Kimya Dawson, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Hari Kondabolu, Billy Bragg, Pamela Means, Anti-Flag, Downtown Boys, The Coup, Anne Feeney, Oi Polloi, Dispatch, Dirty Projectors, Screaming Females, and Chumbawamba. She's currently the campaign director for Fight for the Future, the viral digital rights nonprofit behind the largest online protests in history. Evan writes regularly for The Guardian, Time, Newsweek, and HuffPost, has been a guest on Good Morning America and All Things Considered, and has been interviewed about her music activism by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, TIME Magazine, Pitchfork, NBC News, Billboard, the Wall Street Journal, Spin Magazine, CBS News, Washington Post, Democracy Now!, The Atlantic, The Nation, CNN, Mother Jones, and even Fox News. Evan’s website is http://evangreer.org (evangreer.org) and you can follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/evan_greer (@evan_greer). Her new album “Spotify is Surveillance” is available at http://evangreer.bandcamp.com (evangreer.bandcamp.com) or wherever you prefer to stream or purchase music. Visit http://www.fightforthefuture.org (www.fightforthefuture.org) to get involved in online activism with that great organization. Feel free to also try out Michael’s new FREE & without-tracking music streaming service at https://michaelsalamone.com/wp-admin/Bloopidy.com (Bloopidy.com). He made it for himself, but shares his toys with others. Don’t forget to subscribe to THIS podcast so not to miss out on these conversations, especially as we're going to forego the weekly episode drop schedule and just start scheduling around our guests and current events. Until next time, you be you, and let’s please be good to each other. Cheers. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast