Anti-Racist OII
@antiracistOII
A communal Twitter account run by the many members of the OII community demanding justice.
When Google got serious about stopping labor organizing they introduced new workplace policies that were hard-to-impossible to follow. Almost everyone violated these policies, which made them a great pretext for targeting organizers.
Calls for @oiioxford to uninvite Palantir echo wider opposition to the company’s infiltration of community services & institutions (see @healthW4pal @CorpWatchUK @Foxglovelegal @peopleandplanet + more!) Our 2021 report with @privacyint on this topic: privacyinternational.org/sites/default/…
We are disappointed in the Oxford Internet Institute's decision to host Palantir tomorrow, despite community requests to reconsider. Here are three things you can do to say no to Palantir at the @oiioxford (1/3)
Calling all students, workers, and anyone interested in organising against digital complicity from occupied Kashmir to Palestine. Join us for a teach-in with @NoTechApartheid on Friday, 26 January 2023, 6:30 - 8 pm GMT. Register here & share widely: tinyurl.com/3zkp55f9
📢 Call for interviewees: Muslim academics' experiences with #Islamophobia in Belgian and Dutch higher education Please send a dm for more details or if you’d like to participate to an interview. Sharing is caring! #racism #academia #inclusion
🚨 Breaking: In response to the call from Workers in Palestine @WorkersinPales1, trade unionists are taking a powerful stand, blocking entrances at multiple weapons manufacturing sites across Britain. ✊🏽@Workers4Pal #SolidarityInAction #StopArmingIsrael #Gaza_Genocide
📍 Bournemouth 📍 Lancashire 📍 Brighton 📍 Glasgow Today trade unionists have shut down 4 sites in Britain which produce components for the F-35 fighter jet currently being used in Israel's bombardment of Gaza. #StopArmingIsrael
🇵🇸 PALESTINE SOLIDARITY FOR THE LONG RUN: A GUIDE bit.ly/PalSolidaritie… It’s been 8 weeks, or 55 days, since this most recent wave of violence has been unleashed on Palestine—and over 75 years since the start of the brutal settler-colonial occupation of Palestine. 1/10
Calls to Action for tech workers, students & civil society from this week’s @haymarketbooks panel on #NoTech4Apartheid (watch the recording here: ) (1/9)
You can watch the recording of our event here: youtube.com/watch?v=QVrjA-…. Thank you once again to our speakers.
BREAKING: 14 trade unions and over 200 civil society orgs in Spanish state launch a campaign calling on gov't to end arms trade with Israel "arms embargo is more necessary today than ever" #StopArmingIsrael
Want to take part in the #StopArmingIsrael days of action on 9-10 Nov & not sure if there is a target near you? Or how the arms trade works? This is a great starting point. Read it, share it & organise to win! We are many, they are few! #CeasfireNOW #SolidaritywithPalestine
We must upscale our solidarity to restrain Israel’s war machine! In this guide you can find on ways of taking action and potential targets. Read it, share it, and mobilise for the global days of action, November 9-10. #stoparmingisrael #ceasfirenow #freePalestine
📢 NEW REPORT OUT! 📢 Read our newly released report “Surveillance Technology Perpetuates Police Abuse of Power” where we explore 7 cases that highlights different dynamics of police abuse in Brazil, Denmark, India, Mexico, UK, and US #PoliceAbuseTech notechfortyrants.org/2022/11/07/new…
NEW: On Nov 7, we're launching our report “Surveillance Technology Perpetuates Police Abuse of Power.” Join us online for a panel highlighting the systemic links between surveillance technology & police abuse of power—and how we resist: eventbrite.com/e/policeabuset… #PoliceAbuseTech
happy 2022! we're starting the year with a project on policing and tech. Twitter hivemind, can you help us make sure we're collaborating with the right folks? 🔎who are your favorite community groups and orgs working on police, tech, surveillance, and resistance? 1/3
The latest issue of the NACLA Report, "Frontiers of Dispossession, Territories of Freedom," is now available online! Guest edited by Christopher Loperena, the issue looks at Black and Indigenous struggles across the Americas. tandfonline.com/toc/rnac20/53/3
Exactly what counts as AI, and who decides? In an entry titled AN ELECTRIC BRAIN (電腦) for the A New AI Lexicon project, @a_yung_ looks at how to ensure that the words we have reflect the worlds we wish to see: medium.com/a-new-ai-lexic…
📢 With nearly 500 people signed up so far we're extremely excited for our conference 'Racialisation and the Media: From Television to Twitter' to kick off tomorrow! 🎉🤩 There's still time to register, attendance is online and totally free: tiny.one/racemediaconf
APPLICATIONS OPEN: The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism, a 6 week project based summer institute @hcdeUW w/ @WeBeImagining, examining tech + power in Tigray, Oromia, Kashmir and the Black US South Deadline to Submit: May 14, 2021 sites.uw.edu/otherwise/