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Counter Cloud Action Day
Name	Counter Cloud Action Day
Location	H&D studio & online
Date	2024/03/08
Time	15:30-18:00
PeopleOrganisations
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Web	Yes
Print	No

TRANSNATIONAL ANTI-COLONIAL TRANS*FEMINIST COUNTER CLOUD ACTION DAY

Open self-study afternoon at the H&D studio and online

H&D joins the Counter Cloud Action Day on Friday 8 March by opening our doors (physical and virtual) for a self-directed study afternoon. We will read up on and discuss the relationship between Cloud platforms with the military-technological complex enabling the genocide in Palestine. We will share some references, thoughts and suggestions for action, and invite you to join us online or at the H&D studio to dedicate some time to self-directed study on these pressing matters.

H&D is an endorser of Tecnosandia’s declaration of solidarity with Palestine.

No prior knowledge necessary, but you can orient yourself by reading these statements:

Call for Counter Cloud Action Day on 8 March by Varia: https://varia.zone/8m/
Call for Counter Cloud Action Day on 8 March by Constant: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/8m-activities
Technopolitics & genocide statement by Tecnosandias: https://www.tecnosandias.org/statement

Time and date: Friday 8 March, 15.30-18.00
Location: NDSM-plein studio 127 (for directions, see: https://hackersanddesigners.nl/Contact.html) or online (you will receive a link upon registration)
Registration: send an email to info@hackersanddesigners.nl to let us know if you are joining online or at the studio.

Program

15.00 welcome w tea and coffee
15.15 sharing some thoughts and references
15.30 setting intentions for self-study
17.00 moment for exchange
17.30 end
[time to go to march 18:00 @Dam, Centrum, Amsterdam, NL, https://8maartstrijddag.nl/ & https://events.todon.eu/event/internationale-vrouwendag-2024)]

Other References

Call for Counter Cloud Action Day on 8 March by Varia: https://varia.zone/8m/
Technopolitics & genocide statement by Tecnosandias: https://www.tecnosandias.org/statement
Translocal pipas club: https://post.lurk.org/@pipas
Anti-colonial tech panel's comments on withdrawing from Transmediale - https://pad.riseup.net/p/r.5e8fb6bd54cdce773db487845244e55d
They are shooting at our shadows (visual investigations of state violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory): https://ias.ucsc.edu/exhibits/exhibits/al-haq-forensic-architecture-investigative-unit-shooting-at-our-shadows/
Statement and resources by The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (titipi)
https://titipi.org/?statements/palestine
https://titipi.org/pub/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan.pdf
Statement and resources by the Racism & technology center: https://racismandtechnology.center/2023/10/16/standing-in-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people/

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-H&D joins the Counter Cloud Action Day on Friday 8 March by opening our doors (physical and virtual) for a self-directed study afternoon focused on the relationship between the cloud platforms we use and their entanglements with the military-technological complex enabling the genocide committed by the Israeli goverment. We will share some references, thoughts and suggestions for action, and invite you to join us online or at the studio to dedicate some time to self-directed study on these pressing matters.
+H&D joins the Counter Cloud Action Day on Friday 8 March by opening our doors (physical and virtual) for a self-directed study afternoon. We will read up on and discuss the relationship between Cloud platforms with the military-technological complex enabling the genocide in Palestine. We will share some references, thoughts and suggestions for action, and invite you to join us online or at the H&D studio to dedicate some time to self-directed study on these pressing matters.
-H&D is an endorser of Tecnosandia’s declaration of solidarity with Palestine. Who together with other collectives and individuals, activists, artists, researchers and designers, committed to resisting the regime imposed by Big Tech, Big Oil and the computational financial industry, because their basis is complicit with and actively participates in the zionist state of Israel and a world order that defines and maintains it.
+H&D is an endorser of [https://www.tecnosandias.org/statement Tecnosandia’s declaration of solidarity with Palestine].
 No prior knowledge necessary, but you can orient yourself by reading these statements:
 *Call for Counter Cloud Action Day on 8 March by Varia: https://varia.zone/8m/