<h1>Points of Unity</h1>
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  We situate ourselves in our context - as Seattle residents and as users and
  creators of the technologies we aim to resist. We are seeing long-spanning
  rise of fascism within all levels of governance, from Seattle city council to
  national governments here and abroad. In parallel is the increasing power of
  tech companies over our lives through surveillance and the provisioning of
  everyday needs, from employment to how we get our internet utilities in the
  first place. There are rising income disparities across the nation, but also
  more specifically across everyone who can be considered a "tech worker": from
  a CEO to a software engineer to a contractor to a child slave mining cobalt in
  the Congo. Technology contributes to gentrification both through the
  tech-enabled financialization of real estate as well as the gentrifying waves
  of tech workers moving into cities. Increased technical sophisication of
  militaries and carceral systems have created the first "AI genocide" in
  Palestine; increased militarization of borders such as the US-Mexico and the
  surveillance of migrants; increased police brutality worldwide, all
  disparately impacting people of the global majority. All of these crises are
  enabled and worsened by technology companies. As tech workers of various kinds
  living in the imperial core, on stolen Coast Salish land covered by the broken
  Treaty of Point Elliot of 1855, we understand how our labor is contributing -
  directly or indirectly - to these oppressions, and seek to use our skills
  towards more liberatory ends.
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