Unplug Technofascism!
Technology is being used to concentrate power in the hands of oligarchs and accelerate fascist agendas.
Every aspect of life is now mediated by algorithms which are controlled by billionaires, powered by vast quantities of energy and natural resource, and built through a global empire of theft, exploitation, violence and environmental destruction.
From agriculture to education, every sector of the economy is falling under the control of algorithms which surveil us without consent and exploit workers. The giant corporations that own these algorithms are increasingly embedded within states, providing them with the technology for mass surveillance, war and genocide, while at the same time stoking authoritarianism, nationalism and militarism in order to profit.
It’s time to shutdown this machinery!
Why direct action?
Code Rouge/Rood is a civil disobedience movement created by activists and supported by different organisations and action groups. We consciously choose civil disobedience as our action method, because in a political system dominated by the imperative of growth and elite interests, legal action methods are no longer an option on their own, since they are co-opted and crushed by an unfair balance of power. Our adversaries are well-organised, extremely well-financed, and have access to media and political power. Therefore, breaking the law is not only a way of being heard, but a legitimate way to assert people power in a repressive capitalist system.
The great changes in history have often taken place as a result of mass acts of resistance. People chose to organize, to break unjust laws, to demand change and to create the change they wanted themselves. The history of peasant struggles is rich: from the mobilizations against CETA-TTIP since 2015, to the movement of landless workers in Brazil against colonial inequality, or that of the Larzac peasants from 1971 to 1981 against a military camp… Systems are not fixed, they are constructed. With imagination, will and a determined collective action, we can shake the powers in place and create resistance against harmful industries. Let’s rise up together!