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@onrust@infosec.exchange  ยท  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Here's the programme


Tentative Workshop Agenda
8:30โ€“9:30AM ET / 2:30โ€“3:30PM CEST โ€“ Reflecting on the Tech Lash

    Brief, 2โ€“3 minute presentations from organizers from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia
    Open Q&A and discussion

9:30โ€“10:30AM ET / 3:30โ€“4:30PM CEST โ€“ Radical Histories of Collective Organizing in Computing

    A conversation with Joan Greenbaum, Computer People for Peace and Lucy Suchman, co-founder of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

10:30โ€“11:30AM ET / 4:30โ€“5:30PM CEST โ€“ Small Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks

    Small group discussion, with parallel online and in-person discussions; focus on applying strategic reflections from panel discussions to strategies for collective action in computing in response to rising technofascism and austerity
    Report backs and concluding remarks
Tentative Workshop Agenda 8:30โ€“9:30AM ET / 2:30โ€“3:30PM CEST โ€“ Reflecting on the Tech Lash Brief, 2โ€“3 minute presentations from organizers from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia Open Q&A and discussion 9:30โ€“10:30AM ET / 3:30โ€“4:30PM CEST โ€“ Radical Histories of Collective Organizing in Computing A conversation with Joan Greenbaum, Computer People for Peace and Lucy Suchman, co-founder of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 10:30โ€“11:30AM ET / 4:30โ€“5:30PM CEST โ€“ Small Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks Small group discussion, with parallel online and in-person discussions; focus on applying strategic reflections from panel discussions to strategies for collective action in computing in response to rising technofascism and austerity Report backs and concluding remarks
Tentative Workshop Agenda 8:30โ€“9:30AM ET / 2:30โ€“3:30PM CEST โ€“ Reflecting on the Tech Lash Brief, 2โ€“3 minute presentations from organizers from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia Open Q&A and discussion 9:30โ€“10:30AM ET / 3:30โ€“4:30PM CEST โ€“ Radical Histories of Collective Organizing in Computing A conversation with Joan Greenbaum, Computer People for Peace and Lucy Suchman, co-founder of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 10:30โ€“11:30AM ET / 4:30โ€“5:30PM CEST โ€“ Small Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks Small group discussion, with parallel online and in-person discussions; focus on applying strategic reflections from panel discussions to strategies for collective action in computing in response to rising technofascism and austerity Report backs and concluding remarks
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@onrust@infosec.exchange replied  ยท  activity timestamp 5 months ago

What's a 'tech lash'? think_bread

Tech lash / Tech fascism workshop starts with some reflections from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia

#TechLashTechFash

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@onrust@infosec.exchange replied  ยท  activity timestamp 5 months ago

JS Tan from Collective Action in Tech argues that actions in tech peaked in 2019/2020, then the numbers slowly dropped

WHy? Not because of lack of interest. Rather, it's because many tech workers shifted from individual actions to union work -- which is slower, takes more work, involves more 1-on-1s, etc

Results will come in the longer term, not in a matter of days or weeks

#TechLashTechFash

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@onrust@infosec.exchange replied  ยท  activity timestamp 5 months ago

2022 was a key turning point for tech labour, Tan states

A Elon Musk took over Twitter, they fired 80% of workers ... without the platform going down.

Employers took note. They took Musk ruthlessness as a model.

Instead of the targeted firings of, for example, union organisers and whistleblowers, bosses now felt at liberty to fire anyone who's remotely in the proximity of organising

#TechLashTechFash

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@onrust@infosec.exchange replied  ยท  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Revenge against remote work is part of the tech fash, suggest Daniel Greene

Workers were considered to have gained too much freedom, which had to be crushed

#TechLashTechFash#TechWorkers#RemoteWork

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