How Did You Become a Organizer?

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Roxanne Jones: The research that you've been doing is really based, on my end, on some news letters that you wrote for the tech workers coalition and for a recent article in wired. So i want to know why you became an organizer, because you had been working in the tech industry for quite a while at that time. And also what it meant to find out that people had tried to do this in the past before,.Jones: It all comes together and leads up to what we're talking about to day, what we're discussing with this organ sing at i b m.

Paris Marx is joined by ann haeyoung to discuss IBM worker organizing in the 1970s and 1980s against racism and apartheid, and how those stories are important to informing tech organizing in the present.

ann haeyoung is a media artist interested in technology and labor. She is also a former tech worker and organizer, and a graduate student at UCLA.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

ann wrote about IBM organizing for Wired, and put together a four-part series on her research for Tech Workers Coalition.
Science for the People published an article about tech worker organizing in the 1960s and 1970s.
Logic Magazine spoke to Joan Greenbaum about the early days of tech worker organizing.
Tech Won’t Save Us is looking for a producer.

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