Thread by @UnansweredQstns

Dear @NatFriedman,

We stand with @Githubbers in demanding an end to Github's collaboration with ICE.

#SayTheirName
Nebane Abienwi
Roberto Rodriguez-Espinoza
Pedro Arriago-Santoya
Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres
Johana Medina Leon
Simratpal Singh
Abel Reyes-Clemente

@natfriedman @githubbers Guerman Volkov
Mergensana Amar
Wilfredo Padron
Augustina Ramirez-Arreola
Efrain De La Rosa
Huy Chi Tran
Zeresenay Ermias Testfatsion
Roxana Hernandez
Ronald Cruz
Gourgen Mirimanian
Luis Ramirez-Marcano
Yulio Castro-Garrido
Kamyar Samimi
Felipe Almazan-Ruiz

@natfriedman @githubbers Osvadis Montesino-Cabrera
Carlos Mejia-Bonilla
Vicente Caceres-Maradiaga
Atulkumar Babubhai Patel
Jean Jimenez-Joseph
Sergio Alonso Lopez
Osmar Epifanio Gonzalez-Gadba
Roger Rayson

All of these people died in ICE Custody during the Trump administration.

@natfriedman @githubbers We have some questions for you!

You've affirmed a belief in “basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity” ( github.blog/2019-10-09-git… ).

So why does your company do business with the organization that killed these people?

@natfriedman @githubbers Why you are not willing to draw the line at ICE, to whom you continue to provide software, even in spite of the fact that the contract in which you do so is “not financially material for our company?"

@natfriedman @githubbers Like the rest of the country and the world, @natfriedman will have seen the pictures, read the stories, and watched the videos about ICE

You know that ICE has separated thousands of children from their parents at the border, and you are still working with them.

@natfriedman @githubbers You know that ICE has kept children in inhumane conditions, in cages, in frigid holding cells known as “freezers”, and you are still working with them.

@natfriedman @githubbers You know that ICE has forcibly injected children with psychotropic drugs, without their consent and over the objections of parents, and you are still working with them.

@natfriedman @githubbers You know that a 6 year-old child, one of those who had been separated from her parents, who had experienced sexual abuse while imprisoned in an ICE facility, was made to sign a form stating that it was her responsibility to avoid her abuser, and you are still working with them.

@natfriedman @githubbers You know that ICE has faced over a thousand reports of sexual abuse, and you are still working with them.

You know that ICE was ordered to reunite all the families they separated, and that they still have not done so.

@natfriedman @githubbers And you are still working with them.

Author Andrea Pitzer, who wrote "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps," was recently quoted as saying that the border detention centers are "of course" concentration camps.

And you are still working for them.

@natfriedman @githubbers “basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity”

These are your words.

Is this what it looks like to stand by them?

@natfriedman @githubbers We stand with other @githubbers in demanding more!

@natfriedman @githubbers As we speak, tech workers are disrupting a webinar with Sam Hunt, Github VP of Sales for Asia/Pacific, to ask why @github continues to work with ICE

@natfriedman @githubbers @github We asked the most popular questions in the webinar.

But Github's VP and sales reps refused to take them. What is so uncomfortable about these questions?

@natfriedman @githubbers @github But every one of githubs potential customers could see all of our questions -- could see these are the questions people want answers to.

And so @github, @natfriedman, understand there will be no business as usual as long as you enable ICE's reign of terror.

@natfriedman @githubbers @github We will find the places you do business and we will disrupt you.

We will stand with @githubbers
We will stand in solidarity with immigrants.
We will stand up to you, until you truly stand for the values you say you do.

@natfriedman @githubbers @github Please see our attached media release about our action.

Screenshots and other documentation to follow shortly.

@natfriedman @githubbers @github we watched as our questions floated to the top and then got greyed out by the moderator.

They were not courageous enough to stand by their own actions and answer our questions.

@natfriedman @githubbers @github Again and again. #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropIce

https://twitter.com/UnansweredQstns/status/1184499634426671104

@natfriedman @githubbers Bit of context on footage here: This is from an separate ICE protest shot by one of us who attended. One of the groups being protested was the @lacountysheriff which collaborates with ICE. Their logo is a six point gold star. Effigy is LA Sheriff Villanueva, not a Jewish person

@natfriedman @githubbers @lacountysheriff You can find more footage and information about this event, organized by awesome Los Angeles activists and @DSA_LosAngeles here: facebook.com/events/6598116…

@natfriedman @githubbers @techworkersco can you retweet the above?