Data centers were once just the physical locations where your cloud-backed photos and streamed movies used to live. But now, thanks to the advent of crypto and AI, they’ve evolved into behemoth power users estimated to consume up to 326tWh of power annually by 2028. Big Tech is in an......
The following document presents a ratified introduction to NYC DSA Tech Action’s guiding Principles On Technology. Serving as a central ideological reference point and accountability mechanism for our working group, these principles emerged from countless reading group discussions, political education sessions and legislative deliberations, followed by a formal drafting process.
......On August 24th, 2022, our former organizing committee member, Kristen Gonzalez, was elected to the New York State Senate. She currently is the chair of the Internet and Technology Committee & Elections Committee. She represents NY’s 59th District, including the neighborhoods of Astoria, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Stuyvesant Town, and......
It’s official: Amazon has cancelled their plans to build their HQ2 in NYC
Today New York’s working class showed that big business and billionaires can’t buy our city. New York belongs to the many, not the few.
NYC-DSA Tech Action is proud to......
On January 11th 2019, Tech Action helped organize a panel discussion on the past year’s wave of collective actions by white-collar tech workers. It was a huge success! Around 250 people stuffed into Verso Books for......
On first day of September, Tech Action members turned out to support Julia Salazar in her campaign for State Senate. Julia’s a fellow NYC-DSA member who’s campaign recently solicited and adopted a “tech platform” developed by Tech Action members. Her campaign now includes tech......
Our first Tech Action event was a success! On December 17, 2017 we co-hosted a panel with Logic Magazine called “The Internet We Want”.
The focus of discussion was on the pitfalls of Big Tech and how the......
We're developing a socialist perspective on technology and society, creating alternatives to the status quo, and thinking up strategies to challenge the tech industry's growing power.