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The Battle for Power Inside Big Tech: Against Tech Oligarchy w/ JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine

Sep 15, 2026 · 56m

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Over the last decade, tech workers have staged walkouts, signed open letters by the tens of thousands, and built more than a dozen new unions across the industry. And yet, over that same decade, tech companies have ramped up carbon emissions, raced to militarize AI, signed contracts with the Trump administration, rolled back protections for marginalized users, and, in some ways, engineered their platforms to be protest-proof. In Against Tech Oligarchy , authors JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine ask the question: did tech workers ever actually learn how to fight? More like this: Meet the Mom Winning Against AI in Schools w/ Ifeoma Ozoma JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine are both former tech workers who…