"“We’re interested in connecting, bringing together, and organizing the
workers in tech to help us fight big tech,” Ross Patton tells the crowd.
A software engineer for a pharmaceutical technology startup, he’s an
active member of the Tech Workers Coalition, a group dedicated to
politically mobilizing employees in the industry to reform from within...
A couple of earnest college students head to the front of
the room to talk to the speakers who had just presented, asking them
for advice on organizing. One of them, a computer science student at
Columbia University, says he has ethical concerns about going into the
industry and wanted to learn about how to mobilize.
“If I go into an industry where I’m building things that impact people,” he says, “I want to have a say in what I build.""
