0235.json

{
    "id": 217,
    "date": "2019/12/04",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-12-04/github-open-source-developers-ice-contract"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "open letter"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "ethics"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "white collar workers"
    ],
    "description": "In an open letter published Wednesday on GitHub, software developers representing the open source community joined the call for GitHub to immediately cancel the $200,000 contract with ICE. 'Open source is about inverting power structures and creating access and opportunities for everyone,' the letter, signed by 167 developers at the time of publication, reads. 'We, the undersigned, cannot see how to reconcile our ethics with GitHub\u2019s continued support of ICE. Moreover, your lack of transparency around the ethical standards you use for conducting business is also concerning to a community that is focused around doing everything out in the open.'",
    "online": true,
    "locations": [
        "usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "github",
        "microsoft"
    ],
    "workers": 200,
    "tags": [
        "industry_solidarity",
        "immigration",
        "ice"
    ],
    "author": [
        "organizejs"
    ],
    "latlngs": [
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            -122.3912458
        ],
        [
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        ]
    ],
    "addresses": [
        "GitHub, 88, Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, CAL Fire Northern Region, California, 94107, United States",
        "Tellme Networks;Microsoft, Central Expressway, Mountain View, Santa Clara County, CAL Fire Northern Region, California, 94043, United States"
    ]
}