Introduction
What is technology? We start by taking a broad approach, and define technology as any purposive application of human knowledge and tools that mediates our relationship with the world. Under capitalism, the enclosure and privatization of technology ultimately serves to maximize profit and power for the elite, while robbing......
On August 24th, 2022, our former organizing committee member, Kristen Gonzalez, was elected to the New York State Senate. She currently is the chair of the Internet and Technology Committee & Elections Committee. She represents NY’s 59th District, including the neighborhoods of Astoria, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Stuyvesant Town, and......
For our first meeting of 2019 we had a discussion centered on the labor process and how to effectively politicize the issue of subcontracting in tech.
We were joined by professor, technologist, and trade unionist Joan Greenbaum, a giant in the fields of technology, design, and labor......
It’s official: Amazon has cancelled their plans to build their HQ2 in NYC
Today New York’s working class showed that big business and billionaires can’t buy our city. New York belongs to the many, not the few.
NYC-DSA Tech Action is proud to......
On January 11th 2019, Tech Action helped organize a panel discussion on the past year’s wave of collective actions by white-collar tech workers. It was a huge success! Around 250 people stuffed into Verso Books for......
In this meeting we met to discuss the role tech workers and socialists can play in challenging Amazon’s most recent incursion into NYC.
Amazon has announced it will build a new headquarters in Long Island City, aided by giveaways from the State and City estimated to be up......
On first day of September, Tech Action members turned out to support Julia Salazar in her campaign for State Senate. Julia’s a fellow NYC-DSA member who’s campaign recently solicited and adopted a “tech platform” developed by Tech Action members. Her campaign now includes tech......
For this meeting we engaged with this summer’s news about actions of tech workers against ICE and CBP.
Whether at Amazon, Microsoft, or Salesforce, there’s no denying there’s been a surge in tech worker agitation against employer contracts with immigration agencies. Many of these actions are pressure campaigns......
In June we met to investigate “surveillance capitalism” i.e. How do big companies make money off our data?
Data collection and analysis is not new. It has long been practiced by banks, insurers, finance, and many other industries. But with the advent of increasingly complex networked tools and......
For our March meeting we heard from Bob Master, the District 1 Political Director of the Communication Workers of America (CWA)—the union representing Verizon FiOS technicians, and the largest union to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2016. He’s also a co-founder of the NY Working Families Party and a......
In January 2018 “Net Neutrality” was on everyone’s minds. Our goal for this meeting was to shift our thinking about net neutrality away from liberal tech regulation and toward the conflict between public and private ownership of the internet infrastructure.
Backbone Bullies. An......
Our first Tech Action event was a success! On December 17, 2017 we co-hosted a panel with Logic Magazine called “The Internet We Want”.
The focus of discussion was on the pitfalls of Big Tech and how the......
This meeting was centered on a group discussion about the many issues surrounding the case of James Damore, the Google engineer who was fired after internally publishing an anti-diversity memo. We did not discuss the ideas put forth in the memo or Damore himself, per se – that’s......
In this meeting we discussed how organized workers make demands, and what those demands might look like in the tech industry.
As temp sector grew, so did appeal of union: Microsoft campus labmates bargain for benefits. On the organizing efforts by Microsoft contractors......
In July of 2017 we held a meeting to begin thinking about what constitutes labor in the tech industry, who “tech workers” are, and how we might think about organizing these workers.
Trump’s Tech Opposition. Tech employees who increasingly see themselves as workers......
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.