NYC DSA

Tech Action

Working Group

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.

— Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962

Have you ever wondered...

What is the role of labor in the tech industry?

How do data centers impact our communities?

What does class have to do with internet access?

How does Big Tech influence education, housing, and criminal justice policy?

How can I take control of the technology in my life instead of it controlling me?

Who's interests does AI serve?

🌹 💻 The NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group wants to help you find answers 💻 🌹
🌹 💻 The NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group wants to help you find answers 💻 🌹
🌹 💻 The NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group wants to help you find answers 💻 🌹

We're developing a socialist perspective on technology and society,

creating alternatives to the status quo,

and thinking up strategies to challenge the tech industry's growing power.

Open Source Technology

We call for true open-source technology that affirms shared and collective development while rejecting the monopoly power of major technology companies. Technologies that cannot be understood and modified by their users – or the communities they affect – cannot promote autonomy, and inherently disempower workers in......

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