0226.json

{
    "id": 208,
    "date": "2019/11/13",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjwwp/as-githubs-conference-begins-five-employees-resign-over-protest-ice-contract"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "protest"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "ethics"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "white collar workers"
    ],
    "description": "Before Github\u2019s CEO Nat Friedman delivered his keynote address at Github Universe, an annual Github-hosted conference, dozens of tech workers and immigrant rights activists protested outside with a replica of the cages ICE uses to detain migrant families and children. \u201cThe demonstration [is in response to] GitHub's contract with ICE and is intended to show support for the GitHub workers who are organizing internally to get the contract cancelled,\u201d said a representative of Tech Workers Coalition, the group organizing the protest. Just before the annual conference, 5 Githubbers left the company, citing Github's involvement with ICE. ",
    "online": null,
    "locations": [
        "san francisco-california-usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "github",
        "microsoft"
    ],
    "workers": 24,
    "tags": [
        "immigration",
        "ice"
    ],
    "author": [
        "organizejs"
    ],
    "latlngs": [
        [
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        ]
    ],
    "addresses": [
        "GitHub, 88, Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94107, United States"
    ]
}