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        <h1 class="text-3xl font-semibold">Points of Unity</h1>

        <p class="mb-4">
          We situate ourselves in our context - as Seattle residents and as
          users and creators of the technologies we aim to resist. We are seeing
          a long-spanning rise of fascism within all levels of governance, from
          Seattle city council to national governments here and abroad.
        </p>

        <p class="mb-4">
          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.
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          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.
        </p>

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          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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