That’s right. We’re playing the game where you dodge pigs, bootlickers, and snitches to steal their treasures while keeping your teammates from getting tagged. Maybe you’ve heard of Flock, the expressly evil surveillance company that’s been putting a creepy red (or sometimes green) eye (sauron-style) on every street corner to support ICE (https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/), extend the police state into Black and brown neighborhoods to hasten gentrification (https://www.flocksafety.com/articles/security-camera-system-specifically-for-neighborhoods), prosecute people seeking abortions (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down), incarcerate people taking action against fascist car salesmen (https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-vehicles-car-showroom-georiga/)… the list of evil doing goes on. This doesn’t even include the amount of fucking water and rare-earth minerals it takes to build their not-cute data centers and drone and camera factories.
Yet the shame continues! August 4-6, Flock is holding a conference in Atlanta, GA, at the Intercontinental Buckhead (https://www.flocksafety.com/flock-forward), with a cast of truly ghoulish characters— the police chief who presided over Memphis police officer’s murder of Tyre Nichols, loss prevention heads, drone as first responder advocates, and the company’s own C-Suite. We think the fuck not; let the games commence!
OBJECTIVE:
Fuck these flocks. In the run-up to this conference, we have an opportunity to have some fun with their investments that are terrorizing our neighborhoods and poisoning the earth. Success will look like disabling their hardware, disrupting their supply chain, and damaging their reputation by embarrassing them at their stupid little show to discourage potential investors and contractors.
This edition of the game runs for a limited time only. As Flock scales up through lucrative new contracts (like those being hawked at their summer conference/circle-jerk) and brand new factories, their technologies will evolve. Let’s clip their wings by August 4 to show investors that Flock brings crime to the streets.
HOW TO PLAY:
BEGINNER:
• Add to this map of flocks https://deflock.me/; https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969945-apd-cam-and-lpr-list-export-202306202/
• Make and distribute agitprop
• Research and publish investor/contractor/collaborator information
INTERMEDIATE:
• Join the leaderboard by destroying physical cameras and posting your city’s tallies to counterinfo sites. https://unravel.noblogs.org/new-zine-birds-of-a-feather-destroy-a-flock-together/,
• Conduct hardware research on their newest tech by dismantling cameras, investigating, and reporting findings
• Theatrics, shenanigans, and tomfoolery at their August conference
EXPERT:
• Production facilities, personnel, transportation, oh my! Tread lightly and choose wisely; you’re soundly in enemy territory here.
EXTENSION PACK:
• Coordinate with other AGs, city events like large protests or adverse weather conditions, and other contextual factors to maximize your impact & design your own strategies.
The announcers of this game take inspiration from Richmond, Philadelphia, and other campaigns calling for a concerted focus on Flock and other cameras. Credit goes where it is due for inspiration.
Have fun!