Background
| Can You Trust Your Computer? by Richard Stallman, NewsForge.com October 21st, 2002 Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call ''trusted computing,'' large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you. Proprietary programs have included malicious features before, but this plan would make it universal. |
| Globalization: The Third Wave by Roberto Verzola, The Philippine Greens February 5th, 1998 Roberto Verzola discusses the emergence of the global information economy as the third wave of globalization, a process that started with colonialism. This in depth analysis looks at how information monopolies are being used to artificially create information scarcity (and high profits) for corporate owners, such as Microsoft. |
| SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP): Organization and Campaign Information SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) February 10th, 1997 The SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) is a sixteen year old multi-racial, statewide grassroots membership organization in New Mexico. SWOP's mission is to empower the disenfranchised in the Southwest to realize racial and gender equality, and social and economic justice. Our work focuses on increasing citizen participation and building leadership skills in low-income communities composed predominantly of people of color, so that we may play greater roles in public and corporate decision making which affects our lives and determines our future. |
| The Ordeal of Labor by Kirkpatrick Sale, Rebels Against the Future February 10th, 1997 The impact of technology on employment in all industrial nations has been dramatic and severe for the last two decades, but by the mid-1990s it was clear that what had been happening was evidence not of ''a transitional or temporary or cyclical problem,'' as Stephen Roach, the chief economist of Morgan Stanley, has put it, but of ''a lasting and structural problem.'' The problem is technology. |
| The Environmental Cost of Plastics Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition February 10th, 1997 Here are some of the environmental impacts of plastics used in the manufacturing of computers. |
| The Environmental Cost of Monitors Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition February 10th, 1997 The cathode ray tubes of monitors have four major components: glass panel (faceplate), shadow mask (aperture), electron gun (mount) and gas funnel. Along with producing electromagnetic fields, they produce the following pollutants. |
| The Environmental Cost of Printed Circuit Boards Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition February 10th, 1997 Printed circuit boards are the physical structures on which electronics components are mounted. Manufacturing is divided into five steps: board preparation, application of conductive coatings, soldering, fabrication and assembly. These steps produce the following wastes. |
| The Environmental Cost of Computer Chips Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition February 10th, 1997 Computer chips are made of a solid crystalline material, usually silicon. Semiconductor manufacturing is complex and may require several steps to complete the process, including design, crystal processing, wafer fabrication, final layering and cleaning, and assembly. |
| The Silicon Principles Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and Campaign for Responsible Technology February 10th, 1997 Here are the Silicon Principles developed by Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and Campaign for Responsible Technology providing a clear definition of a just and sustainable industry. |
| AIWA San Jose Members Follow Up on Successful Workplace Health and Safety Peer Training by Sonja Kim and Helen Kim, Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) November 1st, 1996 Here you will also find information about Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), a group organizing for the health and safety of high tech employees. |
| Media and Globalization Third World Network July 1st, 1996 In India for just a week in July 1996, Noam Chomsky gave this interview on media issues. |