This chapter explores the challenges tech workers face in organizing against their companies' ties to oppressive regimes, specifically focusing on the Israeli occupation and the associated violence in Palestine. It highlights the struggle for solidarity amid management's culture of fear and recent layoffs, while emphasizing the importance of building political consciousness among employees. Through personal narratives, the chapter illustrates the evolving landscape of activism in the tech industry and the moral imperatives driving these movements for labor rights.
Paris Marx is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it.
Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner are former Google software engineers and organizers with No Tech for Apartheid.
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. Support the show on Patreon.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
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