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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