How can we organise against the greenwashing extractivism of Big Tech?
Drop-in session 1: Amsterdam
How can we organise against the greenwashing extractivism of Big Tech?
The drop-in session in Amsterdam took place during the 2dh5 festival themed 'Weaving Resistance in Times of Distress'. The Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective organised an open discussion on Saturday morning and also hosted a table during the two days of the festival.
Open Discussion: https://www.2dh5.nl/en/event/how-can-we-organise-against-the-greenwashing-extractivism-of-big-tech/
Date: 01/03/2025
Description: Have you been wondering about the relationship between the global military-industrial complex and genocidal Big Tech? Why should we disinvest from these technologies, and how can we do it? Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective would like to host a discussion on resisting Big Tech infrastructure and the violences of the green economy. Participants are invited to bring questions and propositions through projects they are dreaming of or already involved in. Propositions might include everything from community organising against corporate tech takeovers and land defence, to zine making, de-install parties, or anti-colonial tech.
Participants will share questions, concerns, and practices across our different contexts and struggles. By doing so we establish a mutual commitment to recognizing how these violences, such as massive increases in computational demands, (via AI, chip factories, data centers, autonomous weapons systems) led by a green capitalist agenda are destroying the planet, and that another world without them is both necessary and possible.
Come ready to contribute, as the session will be shaped by those who are in attendance in order to have a conversation across practices, communities, and how these inform the modes of intervention needed.
Stand: https://www.2dh5.nl/en/
Date: 01/03/2025 & 02/03/2025
During the two days, we set up a stand with an Infrastructural_Rehearsals_Library, a tablecloth with stickers that had been collected from other events that concerns with environmental governance, stickers that had been made from previous Digital Depletion Strike campaigns, new stickers made for Infrastructural Rehearsals, and zines. We gathered aesthetic and narrative strategies together with visitors through annotations on the tablecloth.
