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        <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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