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<Navbar client:load activePage="PointsOfUnity" />
<div class="pl-4 pr-4">
<h1 class="text-3xl font-semibold">Points of Unity</h1>
<p>
<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
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
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. Technology contributes to gentrification
both through the tech-enabled financialization of real estate as well
mining cobalt in the Congo.
</p>
<p class="mb-4">
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
of the global majority.
</p>
<p class="mb-4">
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