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We are GitHub workers, demanding that GitHub management cancel the ICE contract.
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As ’s prized customer prepares to send troops into a second U.S. city to brutalize and kidnap civilians, know that HSI is the division of ICE that claims does enough good to justify keeping the contract #NoTechForIce #GitHubDropIce
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If & tech’s complicity in ICE’s human rights abuses horrifies you, please take a moment today to help defend asylum #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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FIVE DAYS LEFT to #SaveAsylum
The Trump Admin proposed a regulation that will DESTROY ASYLUM
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Flood the admin with public comments to defend asylum. Bring your outrage 
bit.ly/3dNmVID #SoundOfftoSaveAsylum
bit.ly/3dNmVID #SoundOfftoSaveAsylum
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still want to support #ICE now that they are presumably using your infra to put in place the #StudentBan that targets international students?
Anyone near CS knows those students play a major role in all US tech companies including yours. Save them
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Well, it finally happened. This #ICE International #StudentBan got me back into the “organizing effective lobbying action via twitter” game.
Want to make sure our lovely international students can keep their visas? Here’s how to do it:
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This is a horrible policy, enacted for no reason other than bullying the vulnerable. Hey maybe now's a good time to stop working with these monsters?
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ICE is telling international students on F-1 and M-1 visas that if their school is doing online-only courses they must leave the country or transfer to a place with in-person instruction—or they'll be deemed in the US illegally and subject to deportation. ice.gov/news/releases/
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“The reality is all work is political work...We’re all confronted with choices about how our labor is used, how we direct that, who we are really serving, who we’re working for and who benefits from the labor of our lives.” #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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Surely ICE having better tech will make this go well. Your papers, please. #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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This is a truly terrifying development.
Under the Trump administration's expansion of "expedited removal," ICE can snatch anyone off the street, anywhere in the US, and deport them in days if they can't prove that they're here legally, or have been here for at least two years. twitter.com/ToddRuger/stat…Show this thread
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If you've assumed Microsoft is the reason GitHub still hasn't dropped its ICE contract, notice that reason Nat cited. *Microsoft* does pick and choose customers. MS has policy wrt facial recognition contracts, for instance. Sticking with ICE is GitHub's policy, GitHub's decision. twitter.com/yungchomsky/st
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alternatives to master branch:
- have you ever hired a black woman?
- what are you doing within your company to protect your black employees?
- main is fine, sure
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Thanks for the list. I’ve added some finger space for those on mobile:
@AfroLatinoAssoc
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donate to, amplify, and learn from these Black-led orgs fighting for justice for Black migrants/undocumented people:
@AfroLatinoAssoc
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#BlackLivesMatter
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_do_ Black lives matter to ? Our continuing support of ICE says otherwise. “Black communities are over-policed and over-incarcerated, and as a result, Black immigrants are disproportionately funneled into the [lethal] immigration legal system.” ourprism.org/1952428
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GitHub’s CEO spoke at length about company support for Black Lives Matter at an all-hands meeting Thursday. When it came time for questions, outraged employees asked, how can we have this outwardly moral stance but continue to work with ICE? w/
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fwiw there is exactly one action that might convince me this means anything at all and it is dropping their ICE contract twitter.com/natfriedman/st
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Which police contracts have you cut? How many remain?
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Tech CEOs may speak out against systemic racism's history in the US, but they lack the moral backbone to stop aiding and profiting from the white supremacist institutions of today twitter.com/natfriedman/st
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You have a chorus of people giving you very specific, direct action you can take, and you’re choosing not to engage with them. I get it, beholden to shareholders or whatever. But these tweets don’t reflect well on you, almost tonedeaf. Please reconsider your words and actions.
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ICE is causing immeasurable harm to immigrants and inflicting uncertainty and anguish on their families. must cancel the ICE contract. #GithubDropICE #NoTechForICE
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Immigrants have always been vital to the US economy and to GitHub. Potential exec order to “temporarily suspend immigration” adds uncertainty and anguish for developers, will slow recovery and hinder innovation. We need immigrants to get us through this & help us move forward.
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We stand together with the Amazonians of #wewontbuildit in their call! There are two fronts here which demand our attention... 1/
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In the midst of this pandemic, Amazon is responsible for how its warehouse worker policies & hosting of Palantir/ICE are exacerbating the spread of #COVID19
Last week, some Amazonians who signed the #wewontbuildit letter emailed this statement internally
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After we allied against *two* Palantir recruitments, they resorted to buying out students through diversity-washing tactic. We reject this normalization of harmful work. JOIN OUR COUNTER #NoTechForICE Fundraiser to make sure no student has to take their $$ gf.me/u/xpnmgv
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How many laws does ICE need to break before we stop helping them?
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ICE officials have run facial-recognition searches on millions of Maryland driver’s license photos without seeking court approval-access that goes far beyond what other states allow. MD grants special driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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“Microsoft...didn’t buy [GitHub] for their technology. They bought them for their goodwill with developers.” Does still have your goodwill? #GithubDropICE #NoTechForICE
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For everyone asking why ICE needs : this is why. To separate more families and target more people. This is what you're defending, . #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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SCOOP Stephen Miller launched a secret effort to embed ICE officials at the US refugee agency that cares for unaccompanied child migrants (ORR), part of new push to gather enforcement data on migrant families washingtonpost.com/immigration/un
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Reminder: Githubbers, too, have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.
✊ solidarity with Kathryn and the other Googlers being punished for standing up for what’s right. twitter.com/eiais/status/1
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Is ICE using to lie to asylum seekers? Why is GitHub leadership supporting this? @shankuniyogi ?
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ICE is straight up lying about court dates to keep refugees out. It's illegal, inhuman, and wrong. Why are we helping them, ? #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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Yesterday, and stood up in front of staff and told us that ICE is good, actually. How many cruel deaths do they consider acceptable business costs? #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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A secret report alleged that ICE's “inadequate” medical care for jailed immigrants contributed to:
• A child's forehead being partially removed
• Four deaths
• Preventable surgeries
• The wrong drugs being administered buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda
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“Human rights” implies respect for human dignity. That value is completely at odds with the unprecedented number of people caged by ICE in conditions so abhorrent that 8 people have died this year alone. #DefundICE
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Open source values transparency and liberation. ICE violates human rights. Raise your voice with us, and tell and that GitHub must stand for open source values. #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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Over 600 open source developers, representing hundreds of projects, have asked to drop their contract with ICE. Have any of these important, valued community members heard anything back? 🤔 #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE
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If the community of Open Source users of GitHub stand firm and loud, and the employees of GitHub stand firm and loud, what kind of a future for GitHub is it that sees and wants to build?
Where is the good? What would there be that MSFT would want to learn from?
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With employees saying that working with ICE unequivocally violates the principles that have built that special product, has refused to listen, has refused to respect the expertise and deep customer understanding that the employees of GitHub have.
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Open source is supposed to help us build a better world, not take children away from their families. Tell and that GitHub’s work with ICE isn’t compatible with open source values.
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Open letter to GitHub to drop ICE contract is trending. Broke into the top 10 for daily stars yesterday. github.com/drop-ice/dear-
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In 24 hours, over 300 open source maintainers and developers have stood up to tell and that doing business with ICE is not okay! #NoTechForICE #GitHubDropICE latimes.com/business/techn
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