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DESCRIPTION:Occupy Forum continues\n\nMonday, October 14th from 6 - 9 
 pm\n\nInformation, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!\nOccupy 
 Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of 
 these critically important issues!\n\nOccupyForum presents...\n\nBrutal and 
 Unequal: Disruption, Precarity and the New Tech Boom \nwith Darwin 
 Bond-Graham and Ryan Smith\n\n"The tech sector," said sociologist and 
 writer Darwin Bond-Graham, "has obtained a strategic power over the rest of 
 the economy ... Flows of income and distributions of wealth have been 
 equally transformed by the rise of the tech-centric economy, as by the rise 
 of finance." The ideology of the new tech boom is disruption, "a code word 
 for forms of sabotage that benefit a few monopolizing corporations," 
 Bond-Graham said. A key to fighting back against disruption is to 
 understand what it is and how it functions: Bond-Graham will use the 
 ridesharing phenomenon as a focal point for a discussion of how the 
 industry uses disruption to " ... extract wealth from billions of workers 
 and consumers across the planet."\n\nWhat happens when the whiz kids of 
 high tech concentrate on inventing ever more airtight forms of 
 exploitation? With all of the brainpower they have to throw at the 
 engineering puzzles of exploiting others, how can ordinary workers hope to 
 resist? Ryan Smith, longtime Occupy activist, former tech employee and a 
 member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) will discuss his 
 experiences in workers' struggles and in the tech industry. The Wobblies 
 are famous for "unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously 
 regarded as 'unorganizable.'" Can precarious, isolated workers benefit from 
 IWW techniques in the coming century?\n\nTime will be allotted for Q&A, 
 discussion and announcements.\n\nDonations to Occupy Forum to cover costs 
 are encouraged; no one turned away!\n\n   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/10/18744702.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum/ Brutal and Unequal: Disruption, Precarity and the New Tech Boom
LOCATION:Global Exchange\n2017 Mission Street\nSan Francisco\n(near the 16th Street 
 BART Station)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/10/18744702.php
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