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Hi, I'm Christa.
Hey, I'm Ben.

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And we're two of the co-founders of Logic Magazine.

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Logic is a new magazine looking to

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deepen the discourse around technology.

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Today we're here to talk to you about

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a new project we're really excited about.

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It's a new small book called Tech Against Trump.

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♫ He's building a wall ♫

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♫  Oh, he's building a wall ♫

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♫  He's building a wall ♫

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♫ I guess we'll see ♫

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♫ He's building a wall ♫

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♫  with all of our tax money ♫

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Tech Against Trump chronicles

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the rising tide of anti-Trump resistance

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by tech workers and technologists.

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We want it to serve both as a document

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of this present moment and also as an inspiration

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to folks who want to take it further.

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The book consists of both interviews

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and illustrations. The interviews

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are with a wide range of individuals

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and groups who are either

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working within the tech sector to organize

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against Trump or who are

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finding creative ways to use technology

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to fight the administration's agenda.

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Over the last month, we've been talking to some

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interesting and inspiring people.

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David Huerta is president of

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SEIU United Service Workers West,

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which represents 8,000 janitors

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and security guards

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working on tech campuses across Silicon Valley.

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We talked about the potential for

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solidarity between white-collar and

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blue-collar tech workers

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and why he's optimistic that

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resistance to Trump will spark a movement

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that will transform the tech industry.

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Valerie Aurora and Ka-Ping Yee are co-organizers

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of the Never Again Pledge, a public commitment

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by tech workers to refuse to participate

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in assisting the U.S. government in

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targeting people for deportation or discrimination.

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We spoke to Val and Ping about the

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origins of the pledge, and how tech workers can use

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their power to push their industry not to collaborate

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with Trump's agenda.

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The book will also include interviews with

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Silicon Valley Rising,

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Tech Workers Coalition, and others.

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The illustrations are done by

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Bay Area artist Gretchen Röehrs

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and she's been going to protests

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throughout the Bay Area and doing these

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beautiful illustrations

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of those protests. She's also done

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some original portraits for us

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of the folks that we've interviewed.

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We see it as a tool for organizing conversation,

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and a beautiful useful object that you can

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have in your home to refer to as a resource.

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So we have lots of really great content

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just ready to go, and we need your help to

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get this out into the world. While we

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bootstrapped enough cash for issue one,

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we, like the Democratic Party, never imagined

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that Trump would actually become President, and we

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didn't foresee the need for producing something like this.

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So, while we're all donating our time in

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working on this, obviously the folks who we're talking to

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are donating their time, there's still some material costs

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to get this out the door.

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Thank you so much for supporting this Kickstarter.

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We're really excited to bring these stories to you,

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and hopefully provide resources for continuing

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to organize against Trump.

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♫ He's building a wall ♫

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♫ He's building a wall ♫

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♫ He's building a wall to

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protect his greed. ♫

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♫  Obviously ♫

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♫ He's building a wall, but

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walls don't look like freedom to me ♫