We are GitHub workers, demanding that GitHub management cancel the ICE contract.
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As @github’s prized customer prepares to send troops into a second U.S. city to brutalize and kidnap civilians, know that HSI is the division of ICE that @natfriedman claims does enough good to justify keeping the contract #NoTechForIce #GitHubDropIce
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If @github & tech’s complicity in ICE’s human rights abuses horrifies you, please take a moment today to help defend asylum #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
FIVE DAYS LEFT to #SaveAsylum
The Trump Admin proposed a regulation that will DESTROY ASYLUM
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Flood the admin with public comments to defend asylum. Bring your outrage 👉 bit.ly/3dNmVID #SoundOfftoSaveAsylum
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@github @natfriedman still want to support #ICE now that they are presumably using your infra to put in place the #StudentBan that targets international students?
Anyone near CS knows those students play a major role in all US tech companies including yours. Save them
Well, it finally happened. This #ICE International #StudentBan got me back into the “organizing effective lobbying action via twitter” game.
Want to make sure our lovely international students can keep their visas? Here’s how to do it:
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This is a horrible policy, enacted for no reason other than bullying the vulnerable. Hey @github maybe now's a good time to stop working with these monsters?
ICE is telling international students on F-1 and M-1 visas that if their school is doing online-only courses they must leave the country or transfer to a place with in-person instruction—or they'll be deemed in the US illegally and subject to deportation. ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-m…
Surely ICE having better tech will make this go well. Your papers, please. #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
“The reality is all work is political work...We’re all confronted with choices about how our labor is used, how we direct that, who we are really serving, who we’re working for and who benefits from the labor of our lives.” #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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If you've assumed Microsoft is the reason GitHub still hasn't dropped its ICE contract, notice that reason Nat cited. *Microsoft* does pick and choose customers. MS has policy wrt facial recognition contracts, for instance. Sticking with ICE is GitHub's policy, GitHub's decision.
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Thanks for the list. I’ve added some finger space for those on mobile:
@AlemAfricanDrm
@AfricansUS
@AfroLatinoAssoc
@BAJItweet
@OfficialBLMP
@FANMOrg
@HaitianBridge
@UndocuBlack
_do_ Black lives matter to @github? Our continuing support of ICE says otherwise. “Black communities are over-policed and over-incarcerated, and as a result, Black immigrants are disproportionately funneled into the [lethal] immigration legal system.” ourprism.org/1952428
donate to, amplify, and learn from these Black-led orgs fighting for justice for Black migrants/undocumented people:
@AlemAfricanDrm
@AfricansUS
@AfroLatinoAssoc
@BAJItweet
@OfficialBLMP
@FANMOrg
@HaitianBridge
@UndocuBlack
#NoTechForICE
#BlackLivesMatter
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GitHub’s CEO spoke at length about company support for Black Lives Matter at an all-hands meeting Thursday. When it came time for questions, outraged employees asked, how can we have this outwardly moral stance but continue to work with ICE? w/@JMBooyah latimes.com/business/technol…
Tech CEOs may speak out against systemic racism's history in the US, but they lack the moral backbone to stop aiding and profiting from the white supremacist institutions of today
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You have a chorus of people giving you very specific, direct action you can take, and you’re choosing not to engage with them. I get it, beholden to shareholders or whatever. But these tweets don’t reflect well on you, almost tonedeaf. Please reconsider your words and actions.
ICE is causing immeasurable harm to immigrants and inflicting uncertainty and anguish on their families. @github must cancel the ICE contract. #GithubDropICE #NoTechForICE
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We stand together with the Amazonians of #wewontbuildit in their call! There are two fronts here which demand our attention... 1/
In the midst of this pandemic, Amazon is responsible for how its warehouse worker policies & hosting of Palantir/ICE are exacerbating the spread of #COVID19
Last week, some Amazonians who signed the #wewontbuildit letter emailed this statement internally
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After we allied against *two* Palantir recruitments, they resorted to buying out students through diversity-washing tactic. We reject this normalization of harmful work. JOIN OUR COUNTER #NoTechForICE Fundraiser to make sure no student has to take their $$ gf.me/u/xpnmgv
How many laws does ICE need to break before we stop helping them?
ICE officials have run facial-recognition searches on millions of Maryland driver’s license photos without seeking court approval-access that goes far beyond what other states allow. MD grants special driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
