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There w ere also antiwar movements that specifically mobilized against Silicon Valley nuclear technologies. Student movements across the country mean- while found targets in military-­industrial labs on their college campuses, such as the Applied Electronics Laboratory at Stanford.64 ­There was also Computer ­People for Peace (cpp), whose “Proj­ect ibm” protested the police use of ibm computers to track Black ­people in Apartheid South Africa (not so dissimilar from ibm’s punch card proj­ect used in the racializing of Roma and Jewish ­people in presocialist Romania, as I describe in chapter 4). Proj­ect ibm also grew out of cpp’s attempts to raise bail funds for bpp member Sundiata Acoli, who had been a computer programmer with nasa for twelve years prior to becoming politicized by the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1969, ­after having become finance minister for the bpp, he was arrested as part of the Panther 21 case, in which bpp members ­were framed for acts l­ater revealed to be linked to undercover agents.65 As cCPP cofounder Joan Greenbaum recounts of bail-­raising tactics, “We talked about racism wherever we went, including computer conferences, demonstrations and discussions inside the companies we worked for.”66 She notes that much like ­today, tech companies of the time ­were feudalistic, with ­women and ­people of color often relegated to menial tasks such as keypunch operation. Part of the cpp goal, then, was to build feminist, antiracist, and anti-­imperial power within the companies themselves in order to transform technoculture. Such tactics continued to inspire ­organizing efforts against racial technocapitalism in Cold War aftermaths.

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—p.83 Postsocialist Silicon Valley (69) by Erin McElroy 10 months ago