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- Part 3:
- Hacker feminism at the intersection
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- In Hacker Women, Sollfrank writes:
- "even within the cyberfeminist community,
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- there are only a few computer
- professionals and fewer nerds.
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- Currently most women seem to prefer to
- undertake politically engaged work
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- in a purely cultural environment
- and on a non-technological level.
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- Women are not actively influencing
- the development of hard- and software,
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- and therefore are surrendering any chance to share the related power."
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- That power grew to form the new dominant mode of production and took over the world,
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- so ignoring it is impossible but imagining
- a different world seems almost equally hard.
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- Nobody talks about cyberfeminism anymore because thats just feminism now,
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- Cyberspace is enmeshed with the earth
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- and the techno utopianism of the 1990s
- devolved into a full blown dystopia.
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- Today asking someone to quit vectoralist media can be absurdly presumptuous,
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- like asking a peasant to quit the feudal land or a proletarian to quit the capitalist factory.
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- Class domination means
- we really don't have a choice.
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- To survive we are forced
- to carry smartphones
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- that either run on iOS (owned by Apple)
- or Android (owned by Google)
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- get jobs by signing up to sites like
- Linked In (owned by Microsoft)
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- or Amazon Mechanical Turk
- or Uber (hosted on Amazon).
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- To keep our jobs we are forced to sign in to apps like Whatsapp (owned by Facebook)
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- and Zoom (hosted on Amazon).
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- We have to be liked on Instagram (owned by Facebook) or Github (owned by Microsoft)
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- before we can sell
- the fruits of our labor.
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- As April Glaser puts it: "Deleting Facebook is a privilege."
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- However, since our personal data is
- the source of vectoralist political power,
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- feminist slogan "the personal is political" becomes even more meaningful & important.
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- We have to make it clear
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- that when we invite someone to
- our feminist whatsapp group
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- and our google drive to organize our
- new hashtag campaign,
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- we are inviting them
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- to do voluntary work that benefits
- the richest white cis men in the world
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- like Larry Page,
- Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
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- When we invite someone
- to our feminist Zoom assembly,
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- we are inviting them to use services
- of a company
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- that infringes the freedom of assembly to Uighur and Palestinian people
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- on the servers of a corporation that provides Artificial Intelligence and facial recognition
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- to the racist police force of the country with the highest prison population in the world.
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- There is no good reason for using
- vectoralist apps
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- to organize ourselves and our emancipatory
- struggles,
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- because there are free open source alternatives
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- for almost every popular vectoralist software
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- and there is a federation of decentralized
- public servers
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- for free open source social media that we can use right now.
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- We can use IRC, Jabber, Matrix etc. instead of Whatsapp,
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- Nextcloud instead of Drive,
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- Mastodon instead of
- Twitter and Meet Jitsi instead of Zoom.
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- These FOSS apps are not just as good,
- but they are better,
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- not just ethically and politically
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- but also because they dont try to mess with
- our psychology through algorithms
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- and thats why they need much less resources, which is better for the earth.
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- As intersectional feminists we should be aware that we are all cyborg hackers
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- and we have different response-abilities
- depending on our situatedness.
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- Intersectional feminism upgraded with
- hacker class consciousness can and should
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- be an entry point for people to learn
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- how vectoralism intersects with
- all forms of oppression
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- and which tools to use for
- hacking them in a revolutionary way.
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- To begin with, we should differentiate
- between organization and outreach.
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- For the purposes of organization
- and for personal/political communication,
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- we should use free and open source
- software, not just because it's more secure
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- but also for liberating ourselves from vectoralist exploitation
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- and empowering each other.
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- For outreach it might still make sense
- to use vectoralist platforms
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- until most of the population is not there anymore
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- but doing this successfully already requires a well organized hack,
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- otherwise we would be just blocked like Signal ads were blocked by Facebook.
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- On a personal level, we can start
- by migrating to foss operating systems
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- installing peer to peer and darknet apps,
- getting a nextcloud, a matrix, a mastodon
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- and even hosting our own servers,
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- but we won't get much use of these if we don't have a community there.
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- Also the learning curve is much lower
- when it's approached collectively.
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- In the end,
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- the greater part of the work is convincing our communities to come along with us.
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- There is no technical solution
- to a social problem.
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- For any of these FOSS to start genuine change, we need to reach a critical mass
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- with network effect.
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- To host and facilitate
- a digital mass migration,
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- existing infrastructures
- wouldn't be enough,
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- we would need to
- invest in decentralized infrastructure
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- and disperse the cloud
- by reclaiming our data.
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- To spread this idea
- and turn it into reality,
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- we can organize
- feminist hacker literacy campaigns,
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- not just for coding
- but for everything we need
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- to liberate and maintain our cyborg lives,
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- like system administration, telecom engineering, hardware assembly and repair,
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- and most importantly, wetware, which is
- the organic part of our cyborg bodies.
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- The intersection of feminist and hacker politics goes back to witches
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- who were hunted
- for having the power of knowledge
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- detrimental to capitalist racist cisheteropatriarchy.
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- Half century ago, when abortion
- was illegal in the United States,
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- underground Jane Collective reappropriated the knowledge of performing abortions,
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- to train and maintain a feminist network of illegal practitioners.
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- In 2001,
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- Gender Changers Academy started doing feminist hack workshops in Amsterdam
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- which then toured cities in different countries
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- under the name Eclectic Tech Carnival.
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- In 2014, Feminist Principles of the Internet
- were drafted in Malaysia,
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- meanwhile in Catalonia, TransHackFeminist convergence featured workshops
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- ranging from do-it-yourself
- gynecology to creating feminist servers.
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- Feminist principles of the internet
- on feministinternet.org
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- is a good starting point for imagining
- a feminist internet
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- but as it says on the Anarchaserver:
- "A feminist internet also requires
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- self-managed and autonomous
- feminist servers."
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- "This is about regaining control
- and gaining autonomy
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- in the access and management
- of our data and collective memories.
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- It is also about being able
- to have feminist mailing lists,
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- pads, wikis, content management systems,
- social networks
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- and any other online services managed
- by feminist tech collectives.
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- It is also of course
- about continuing to argue that
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- social justice in technologically driven
- environments
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- needs a more gender and culturally
- diverse presence in general."
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- Today there are a few feminist hacklabs and feminist servers
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- that are doing a very important job by setting paradigms and leading by example.
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- What we need urgently is
- the popularization of these practices
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- by sharing material, technical
- and emotional resources.
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- To have our own infrastructure,
- we have to make a collective decision
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- to invest in it.
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- In the article "Feminist autonomous infrastructure: from zombies to ninjas"
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- it explains how volunteering risks invisibilizing labor
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- and donation campaigns are not enough
- to sustain feminist infrastructure projects.
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- The article titled "Feminists are building
- their own technology to organise
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- but where are funders?" explains how
- a feminist server project ceased to exist
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- because it lacked proper funding.
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- "The internet, like
- the streets, needs to be reclaimed.
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- We can build new spaces of engagement, organizing and transformation
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- but in order to achieve this,
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- we need funding that can ensure
- those building the feminist internet
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- that they can make decisions
- over where their knowledge goes."
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- A server can cost less
- than the cheapest smartphone
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- or cheaper
- if you use a second hand computer
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- but we also need the funding
- to spread the idea
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- and give people the time and space
- to learn, exercise and develop.
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- In cities like Barcelona where
- every neighborhood have feminist groups,
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- every neighborhood can have a feminist
- hacklab with servers that federate.
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- For neighborhoods that don't
- have a secure physical space,
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- bigger feminist organizations like Ca La Dona
- can share VPS and other services.
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- Every feminist group should have access
- to feminist servers,
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- if they're too small or ephemeral and can't afford to have their own,
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- they should be able to find help from other feminist collectives that share services.
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- Bigger feminist organizations in
- more privileged parts of the world should
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- also have programs to share services with
- the feminists from rest of the world.
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- Feminist infrastructure and servers
- should be seen as a necessity,
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- especially for separatist feminist groups.
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- We can't have truly no-mixto spaces
- on vectoralist platforms, because there
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- even our close groups and personal
- messages are exploited by white cis men.
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- On the other hand,
- imagine an internet without cis men at all,
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- and believe that
- we can create it together.
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- To realize that dream we don't need
- a new technology, we need a new culture.
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- Hacker class consciousness must be a part of our intersectional feminist consciousness.
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- We can update our
- consciousness raising practices
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- by including conversations about how vectoralism effects us personally
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- and sharing the knowledge of
- how to hack it for good
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- with care
- and not condescension.
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- We can throw crypto install parties
- combined with tupperware/sex parties
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- where we demonstrate
- signal blocking pouches, tails sticks,
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- single board computers,
- linux phones, etc.
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- When we do these parties
- at each others homes,
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- we can help set up home servers and labs.
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- We can make signal blocking
- purses for smart devices fashionable.
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- Take that textile back
- from military machis.
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- If we do it on our own
- we could be singled out,
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- so we should do it as a movement
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- and exercise it as our right
- to not be accessible 24/7.
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- Our culture should value a repairable
- cheap phone with killswitches
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- more than
- the latest most expensive phone
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- that doesn't allow a battery removal
- without breaking the warranty.
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- Meanwhile, we can't forget
- where the lithium, koltan
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- and everthing else
- that goes into a computer comes from,
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- the people who mine it, carry it, process
- it, assemble it.
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- We must interfere with technology at
- every layer
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- from internet service provisions
- to supply-production chains
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- to stop reproducing injustice
- and destroying our planet.
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- To be able to take good care
- of each other and the earth,
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- we must cultivate our response-abilities
- and radically change our culture.
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- The future will be feminist
- or there won’t be future!
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