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Points of Unity
- +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 + a 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 @@ -28,25 +28,24 @@ import "../styles/globals.css"; 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. + 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. + 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.