New story: Tech Workers Rise Up: Organizing Google’s Worldwide Worker Walkout
- 1hr video - 2018 talk w. Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco unicornriot.ninja/2024/tech-work…
@techworkersco At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Dec. 11, 2018 an open forum titled, “#MeToo and Workers’ Power: Building Solidarity at Google and Beyond,” covered inner workings of the global Google walkout of 20,000 employees & contractors in 2018. unicornriot.ninja/2024/tech-work…
@techworkersco Hosted by the Tech Workers Coalition & MIT’s Radius, the speakers and attendees examined the truth about how Google divides its labor force between contractors and workers. 2018 saw unprecedented mobilizations against management at the biggest companies in the tech industry.
@techworkersco A month earlier on November 1, 2018 Vicki Tardif helped lead a worker walkout at the Cambridge #Google office as other workers walked off job sites worldwide.
@techworkersco In the panel at MIT, she discussed how she and other workers activated networks of Google employees previously organized around shared concerns including the controversial Maven drone strike targeting AI and Chinese Dragonfly projects.
@techworkersco Several controversies erupted in Google thru 2018, but the precipitating event leading to the walkout, according to Tardif, was a NYT story about former chief of the Android project, Andy Rubin, receiving a $90 million golden parachute after accusations of sexual misconduct.
@techworkersco Related: Unicorn Riot covered a “Tech won’t build it” panel at MIT on July 11, 2018, which focused on worker organizing against Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security contracts as well as other coercive technologies. unicornriot.ninja/2018/tech-wont…
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Breaking: Nathan Noyce of neo-nazi group Patriot Front was arrested in Richmond, VA today for allegedly participating in the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress.
UR first ID’d Noyce via Dec. 2020 police traffic stop video during a Nazi rally in DC :
Full video establishing the initial identification of Noyce & co:
Patriot Front Neo-Nazis Exposed In Parking Lot Clusterf*ck (1:01:37)
Correction! The traffic stop via which Noyce was first identified was on December 2021 shortly before the events shown in the below video. We regret the error!
In case you didn't know, Energy Transfer (which partially owns the Dakota Access Pipeline) has been trying to subpoena Unicorn Riot since March 2021.
This 🧵thread🧵 will summarize our ongoing legal battle and explain ways you can support us.
The March 2021 subpoena was part of Energy Transfer's federal racketeering lawsuit filed in 2017 against a range of defendants including environmental groups Greenpeace USA, BankTrack and Earth First!.
As of December 2023, both Unicorn Riot and Energy Transfer filed appeals, extending our years-long court case.
Minneapolis - Around 1:45 pm as pro-Palestine demonstrators held a 'die-in' at Lyndale/Hennepin, an alleged counter-protester drove into the crowd, possibly firing a a gun or firecracker while driving away.
Our drone footage paired w/ audio from on the ground shows the incident:
There were about 1000-2000 people at the rally before this happened. Chants heard included "Free Palestine", and "Up with Palestine, down with occupation", calling an end to the Israeli occupation and "genocide" of the Palestinian people.
Correction: the car incident in the first tweet took place around 3:45pm central time, we regret the error
6 yrs ago on Aug. 11, 2017, UVA & Charlottesville Police allowed 100s of neo-nazis with torches to trap & brutalize students holding an anti-racist rally.
It was a prelude to the #UniteTheRight rally which killed local activist Heather Heyer the next day: https://t.co/MaT8Z5p7psunicornriot.ninja/2017/white-sup…
The premeditated attack at UVA was planned over Discord chats obtained & leaked by Unicorn Riot.
Message logs proved various "alt-right" groups and leaders sought violence to engage in racial intimidation & usher in a genocidal fascist street movement: https://t.co/cgfSJvfCBrunicornriot.ninja/2017/charlotte…
Discord chats & texts/emails divulged in court showed wannabe-fuhrers like Richard Spencer, Matt Heimbach, Nate Damigo & Brad Griffin helped incite the mob - this evidence was part of a suit that hit them w/ millions in damages for civil rights violations: unicornriot.ninja/2021/jury-26m-…
@robin4mpls In an exclusive interview Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley said Mayor Frey & his allies have conceded on their plans to re-open MPD's 3rd Precinct after community members overwhelmingly expressed opposition in 'community engagement' sessions & a public survey. 2/
@robin4mpls Robin Wonsley, the first Black democratic socialist to get elected to the Minneapolis City Council was previously a community organizer who co-founded the Seward Police Abolitionist Group, made up of neighbors who opposed rebuilding the 3rd Precinct and supported defunding the… https://t.co/Fv7I4zyPYVtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
NEW: On June 3, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe hosted the U.S. Department of Interior’s seventh “Road to Healing” session in Onamia, MN.
survivors of federal Indian boarding schools were invited to share their experiences with the Secretary of Interior, Deb Haaland… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
“To this day, I call it the ‘hell place’,” said Grace T. Andreoff Smith at the listening session about her time at the Holy Cross Mission Boarding School, a place of trauma for her. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In conjunction with the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, the Secretary of Interior directed the Assistant Secretary — Indian Affairs to lead the first department-wide investigation into the federal Indian boarding school system.