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How IBM Workers Took On Racism and Apartheid w/ ann haeyoung
Paris Marx is joined by ann haeyoung to discuss IBM worker organizing in the 1970s and 1980s against racism and apartheid, and how those stories are important to informing tech organizing in the present.
ann haeyoung is a media artist interested in technology and labor. She is also a former tech worker and organizer, and a graduate student at UCLA.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- ann wrote about IBM organizing for Wired, and put together a four-part series on her research for Tech Workers Coalition.
- Science for the People published an article about tech worker organizing in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Logic Magazine spoke to Joan Greenbaum about the early days of tech worker organizing.