The green jobs advocate is also promoting coding and artificial intelligence careers, teaming up with Google’s AI boss Fei-Fei Li to reach minorities. (Fast Company)… Read the rest
Driving the current protests against ICE and military contracts is a larger movement to transfer power from billionaires to workers and communities. (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
Now groups founded in the wake of Harvey and Irma have crossed 1,000 miles of ocean to devastated Puerto Rico. They are also organizing efforts for the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Read more on Fast Company.) … Read the rest
Fearing a repeat of those failings when Hurricane Harvey drenched Houston last month, a band of Texas entrepreneurs formed their own aid group whose name—the American Black Cross—addresses the political conflicts inherent in disaster relief on several levels. (Read more on Fast Company)… Read the rest
Advocates like the Anti-Defamation League have been cajoling Silicon Valley for years to cut off violent white-supremacist groups. (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
Evan Greer is leading a coalition of the world’s biggest internet companies to mobilize users to fight the Trump administration’s rollback of rules. (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
In an effort to silence uncivil speech, progressive movements are putting financial pressure on companies that provide every level of online infrastructure. (Read on Fast Company)… Read the rest
Shocked by November’s election, some tech workers are discovering politics and engaging with social causes well outside their bubble. (Read on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Consumers can’t do business with Shopify directly. But they can target the companies that do—and support employees who want to quit. (Read on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
Voting with your wallet is an American tradition, but the aims and methods of boycotts have changed in unprecedented ways lately. (Read on Fast Company.)… Read the rest
