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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 + 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 + 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 + 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