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In the city where Jello Biafra once ran for mayor on a platform that would have required businessmen to wear clown suitsrecently graduated engineers arrived wearing jeans and pocket-tees. Like the countercultural icons who came before them, they thumbed their collective noses at the stuffy protocols that had come to dominate the white collar workforce. This was the Left Coast.

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Silicon Valley social ass platforms were as aspirational as they were inspirational. Rather than making money on the backs of the working class, like the oil and railroad tycoons of yesteryear, the titans of tech sought to liberate underserved people around the world and give a voice to the voiceless. In the early days of Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring, some journalists seized on the idea that Twitter and Facebook were pivotal tools of the revolution. Big Tech was happy to take the credit — positioning itself as the perfect industry for an idealist and progressive Bay Area: it strove for diversity, social justice, and freedom of expression.

But a decade removed from these movements and the hype that surrounded the rise of Rocketeller 2. Like the robber barons of the 21st century, Big Tech has exploited an unregulated market for financial gain, and San Francisco has become the West Coast Wall Street. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Google and Apple are amongst a slew of companies cultivating support in right-wing political circles, and San Francisco social media platforms from Pinterest to Nextdoor has played a role in amplifying everyone from well-intentioned micro-aggressors to outright bigots.

Over the course of this month, these issues have been thrown into stark relief. As Donald Trump attempts to discredit the results of the Nov. An increasingly large group of conservatives are joining conspiracy-peddling platformslike Newsmax and Parler, after convincing themselves that Silicon Valley has an anti-conservative bias.

Long before Americans cast their ballots, however, was proving to be a watershed year. Despite the successful defeat of Donald Trump, many Americans still feel more work needs to be done. On Friday, June 19, at 10 a.

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Workers at the Fremont Tesla plant, many of whom commute via shuttle from as far away as Fresno, had started their shifts over four hours prior. While at first blush the move may have been written off as a half-assed attempt at generating some good will for the brand, a closer look suggests a more cynical calculation. A Juneteenth rally protesting police brutality generally, and racism specifically at the plant, was planned for 1 p. Issues at Tesla stretch far beyond critiques of racism. The company has also been rumored to engage in union-busting practices for years by Tesla employees and competitors alike.

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The struggle for unionization has a tendency to divide workforces when one demographic needs their paychecks more urgently than another. Gabriel believes he was threatened with termination for his own activism. Tesla told workers at the time that if they wished to stay home for their own safety, they could do so without repercussions.]