Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices

#TheyKnew #DemocratizeMIT

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

Schwarzman literally positions himself as today's Rhodes. #RhodesMustFall cc @RMF_Oxford https://t.co/7LLg9EJA3u

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

👀 @ the MIT Schwarzman-Trump College of Computing https://t.co/DOslJdbu7z

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

In the last month, Schwarzman has donated 15 million to republican super pacs to sway the Georgia races that will determine which party controls the US senate. That is 15 of 105 million total that has been donated. https://t.co/WiCRzRlfND

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

"@adriennemaree's work invites us all to collectively and imaginatively engage with social justice, whatever our internet-related work, so that we no longer need isolated heroes," says @_pmkr.

#BlackHistoryMonthUK #BHM @oxsocsci @png_marie @SholeiCroom

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[Tom White @___TomWhite___]

Activists at MIT inc. @MIT_SAW & @macprac have protested its new $350 million “Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing”, arguing that its aims are aligned with the interests of the defence industry and large corporations, rather than the public good
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[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

"Discussing racism in such an abstract way defangs the political imperative of anti-racist activism and enables institutions like the MIT College of Computing to ignore or deny their role in perpetuating systemic racism."

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

Update: MIT College of Computing Still Must Address Systemic Racism https://t.co/eQuJzaTQGA

[Scott T Kelley @ScottTKelley]

"Notably, the College’s statement includes no response to our key demands to sever ties with companies that sell technology to police and ICE."

[Claire Duvallet @cduvallet]

"Discussing racism in such an abstract way defangs the political imperative of anti-racist activism and enables institutions like the @MIT College of Computing to ignore or deny their role in perpetuating systemic racism."

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

Update: MIT College of Computing Still Must Address Systemic Racism https://t.co/eQuJzaTQGA

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

Protect All International and Immigrant Students and Workers at MIT! Sign this open letter written by @MITEECS students! https://t.co/wIEtdYv4Hr

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

UPDATE: MIT's College of Computing published a statement regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion after the publication of our open letter. Their private response to us as of today has consisted only and exclusively of a verbatim copy of the statement published on their website

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

Please continue to sign and reshare! We've delivered our letter with its current signatories to @MIT_SCC, and are awaiting Dean Huttenlocher's reply. https://t.co/Oe74l6xbX3

[Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock]

MIT colleagues, please sign

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

Sign our Open Letter: The @MIT College of Computing Must Address Systemic Racism. As we enter the fourth week of mass protests against police brutality in the United States, the @MIT_SCC has yet to release any public statement condemning anti-blackness. https://t.co/6YoD1RXSyL

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Can't say I'm surprised. Wait. Isn't this college of computing the same one thats supposed to have "ethics" or whatever as a core that was just announced with however billion dollars?

[Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices @macprac]

Sign our Open Letter: The @MIT College of Computing Must Address Systemic Racism. As we enter the fourth week of mass protests against police brutality in the United States, the @MIT_SCC has yet to release any public statement condemning anti-blackness. https://t.co/6YoD1RXSyL

[David Kaib @DavidKaib]

If you are more bothered by how people react to injustice than you are by the injustice, you are invested in oppression.

[ColorOfChange @ColorOfChange]

#GeorgeFloyd screamed #ICantBreathe before dying at the hands of #MinneapolisPD. Being Black in America shouldn't be a death sentence. The cops involved were fired, but that isn't enough!

Text 'Floyd' to 55156 to demand DA @HennepinAtty charge them with murder. #JusticeForFloyd