[ [link removed] ]Tell GitHub: #NoTechforICE

Petition to GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:
"Stop being complicit in human rights abuses. Sever financial ties with
ICE."

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Dear Jack,

[ [link removed] ]Tell GitHub:
#NoTechforICE

ICE depends on Silicon Valley.

Technology giants like Google, Amazon and Palantir help ICE supercharge
its traumatizing operation and perform its racist mission more efficiently
and brutally. The companies that choose to work with ICE in order to pad
their pockets are complicit in the deaths and suffering that ICE
creates.^1

Fortunately, tech workers are fighting back. Right now, employees at
GitHub, which was acquired by Microsoft about 1 year ago, are rising up to
protest their company's decision to renew an ICE contract.^2 We need to
stand in solidarity and raise the pressure on GitHub and Microsoft's
leadership to sever ties with ICE.

[ [link removed] ]Tell GitHub: #NoTechforICE. Don't be complicit in human rights abuse.
Click here to sign the petition.

The backlash started in September, when GitHub, a platform to share and
collaborate on code, renewed a contract to license its technology to ICE.
Like all Silicon Valley companies that work with ICE, GitHub's
technological boost pours gasoline on the raging fires of ICE's human
rights abuse. The last thing immigrant communities need is an ICE with
more and better technology.^3

GitHub's decision to renew ICE's contract makes the company complicit in
ICE's outrages. Under pressure from employees, GitHub leadership pointed
fingers at Microsoft.^4 But leadership's claims that GitHub could not
deviate from the position of its parent company ignored the possibility of
advocating internally to cancel the contract. GitHub also made a donation
to immigrant rights groups, following the shoddy example of Salesforce,
which tried to buy its way out of the problem and faced a huge backlash.
But as GitHub employees noted, no donation can make up the damage to
families and children.^5

What immigration agencies are doing at our border is in absolute violation
of human rights and international law. By working with ICE, GitHub and
Microsoft are supercharging Trump's war on immigrants and are continuing
an ugly part of our history – during World War II, IBM directly supplied
Nazis with technology used to transport millions of people to
concentration camps.^6 We must put a stop to this dangerous collaboration
now.

Tell GitHub: #NoTechforICE. Don't be complicit in human rights abuse.
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Thank you for speaking out,

Jelani Drew, Campaign Manager
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References:

 1. Shirin Ghaffary, "[ [link removed] ]GitHub is the latest tech company to face
controversy over its contracts with ICE," Vox, Oct. 9, 2019.
 2. Ibid.
 3. Ibid.
 4. Joseph Cox and Janus Rose, "[ [link removed] ]GitHub CEO Says It Has to Follow
Microsoft’s Lead on Working With ICE," VICE, Oct. 10, 2019.
 5. Ghaffary, "[ [link removed] ]GitHub is the latest tech company to face controversy
over its contracts with ICE."
 6. Colin Lecher, "[ [link removed] ]Google employees ‘refuse to be complicit’ in border
agency cloud contract," The Verge, Aug. 14, 2019.

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