i b m andp tide never cut ties with south africa until the government itself turned against it. i think we can see that today with israel, and how these companies are just dedicated to doing work with o partide regime. Yet there's all these similarities over many decades that continue to exist. Even as you know, there is a movement of workers back then, and now there's a resurgent movement of workers.
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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