In 2024, Eddie Hatfield was fired from Google for speaking out against building tech used for genocide and displacement of Palestinians. Youth Against Displacement is fighting back.
The cavalry are coming, the cavalry are coming !
The ant-gentrification group, Youth Against Displacement, have been making inroads in Chelsea, which is home to the New York City Council district with the most construction of luxury condos. And the group’s focus appears to be Googlers.
The lives of top Google employees are constantly at-risk, because the top wage earners in Big Tech and Big Data will get fired for advocating for justice for the most marginalised communities, like NYCHA residents.
NYCHA residents face forced relocation and the complete demolition of all of Fulton Houses, Elliott Houses, Chelsea Houses, and the Chelsea Addition in an upward transfer of wealth from a cash-strapped Local Public Housing Authority to MAGA billionaire Stephen Ross. The legal system in New York appears to validate the forced resettlement of public housing residents within the interior boundaries of public housing developments from Section 9 public housing in towers in a park settings to denser concrete and steel ants in a colony structures that are out of character with the historic Chelsea district. The RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition scheme has been described as a naked land grab.
To help NYCHA, can you please learn more about Youth Against Displacement’s Google petition ?