DATA BREACH

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protect your privacy and community.

Surveillance technologies have woven themselves into our streets, devices, and shared spaces — by design. 

This exhibition pulls them into view, examining how government authorities have leveraged these systems not for public safety, but for profit-driven agendas that routinely violate the rights of the communities they claim to protect.

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Who is AjA?

The AjA Project is a creative and compassionate space for young people, artists, activists and educators to engage critically with issues that affect our community and realize our collective liberation through participatory storytelling and the documentary arts.

Founded in 2000, The AjA Project is an acronym for the phrase Autosuficiencia Junto con Apoyo, meaning “supporting self-sufficiency.”

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BACK ALLEY POETRY CLUB — The third season of our Back Alley Poetry Club program has just finished wrapping up in March! Fellows have worked to create poems that reflect the experiences of first and second generation immigrants and refugees wi
DATA BREACH — The room was full. The work is still up. Thank you to everyone who joined us on opening night — a room full of conversation, connection, and people ready to look closer at the surveillance systems that look at us. The exhibi
We are shaken by the tragedy at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Our prayer goes to all the families, friends and communities affected. Since 2000, we have been working with refugee and immigrant communities, many of whom are Muslims. Our work has a
Your digital privacy journey starts here. 🖨️ Join us for Steps Towards Digital Privacy, a free Riso zine workshop for all ages and all experience levels. We'll cover practical tools and habits — passwords, search engines, encrypted messaging,
DATA BREACH A look back at the systems watching you. Surveillance is designed to be invisible; embedded so seamlessly into our streets, devices, and shared spaces that we stop noticing it entirely. This exhibition asks us to look again. The AJA Pr
Calling on artists, activists, writers, and poets ; and The AjA Project x Borderclick @borderclick community! Join WHO WATCHES WHO! COUNTERSURVEILLANCE Fellowship to learn how surveillance policies + technologies impact our communities, then co-crea
A bit of a delayed news -BUT 🎉🎉 We got the grant!!! Research shows that arts and nature experiencessupport mental, physical, and social well-being, but this doesn't work when communities can't access them. We’re honored to be one of the 50 no
To all photographers (age 18 -30) with lived experience of immigration, and have a story to tell! Apply to AJA's Jounrey Documentary Photo Essay Fellowship in partnership with San Diego Museum of Art's MOPA. Come and share your JOURNEY story, take pa
We are hiring! Arts & Advocacy Teaching Artist to lead our Countersurveillance fellowship program! Teach, engage and work with the selected fellows and create works to support the ongoing movement against the unaccountable use of surveillance cam
We are pleased to announce our participation as a host institution for the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program@ACLS1919, supported by the Mellon Foundation. In 2026, the program will place recent humanities PhDs in two-year positions with organizati

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