We are GitHub workers, demanding that GitHub management cancel the ICE contract.
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Joined April 2019
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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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githubbers retweeted
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…
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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
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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…
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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.
githubbers retweeted
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
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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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
githubbers retweeted
“Human rights” implies respect for human dignity. That value is completely at odds with the unprecedented number of people caged by ICE in conditions so abhorrent that 8 people have died this year alone. #DefundICE
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If the community of Open Source users of GitHub stand firm and loud, and the employees of GitHub stand firm and loud, what kind of a future for GitHub is it that @natfriedman sees and wants to build?
Where is the good? What would there be that MSFT would want to learn from?
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With employees saying that working with ICE unequivocally violates the principles that have built that special product, @natfriedman has refused to listen, has refused to respect the expertise and deep customer understanding that the employees of GitHub have.
githubbers retweeted
Open letter to GitHub to drop ICE contract is trending. Broke into the top 10 for daily stars yesterday. github.com/drop-ice/dear-git…
githubbers retweeted
As a company, deeply invested in the well-being of your community, if your devrel folks are telling you they are no longer comfortable defending (or even representing) you in public, and this doesn't make all kinds of 🚨alarms🚨 go off with leadership — you are beyond saving…
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The more I think of it, the more the @GitHub defense of using charity to balance out their contract with ICE infuriates me. It’s so clearly a Machiavellian ploy, all tactics, no values. I’d have far more respect for a principled stance (however wrong!) to supply all of US gov.
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During the Boer war, the British denied the refugees held in concentration camps good medical care or nutrition, assuming this would hasten their deaths and reduce their numbers. It did. Today, that is remembered as an instance of genocide.
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I hope @github and @natfriedman don't think the ICE thing will blow over.
we should all be bringing up their complicity in abuse in every convo we have about github until something changes.
When you think github, think ICE
Today is my last day at @github. I've made it crystal clear that the ICE contract was a factor, and urged leadership to consider the long-term impacts of refusing to cancel it.
I have some parting words:
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airbnb refused service to nazis in cville. Cloudflare booted 8chan. Apple is held to account for supply chain abuses. @ericabrescia is on the wrong side of history and of ethics. Jakelin Caal died because of this agency.
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Immigration judges resigning. Asylum officers leaving. ICE agents contacting us, looking for help finding different jobs. Workers quitting companies like GitHub whose tech powers roundups & camps.
The more pressure we put on the system, the more it hollows out from the inside.
It only took Doug Stephens 2 days & 5 interviews to decide he was done implementing Remain in Mexico, Trump’s most successful policy to restrict asylum. He’s believed to be the 1st asylum officer in the country to refuse. @latimes @ThisAmerLife exclusive: lat.ms/377NtlZ