shado-lite - S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding?

S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding?

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07/23/23 • 44 min

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Hello, we are scared of Big Tech and iPhones are cursed!

This ep the girls are getting into the dark side of Apple: how was it able grow so exponentially in the noughties?

We spin out into history of Chinese labour policy and emerging fin-tech in Africa, and the incredibly hard to pronounce ‘algorithmic colonialism’. The girls struggle to get their head around these massive supply chains that produce the little computers we’re all so addicted to. Tech girlies we need your advice, how do we bring down silicone valley? Or at least make them less evil??

References:

Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour The Foxconn Suicide Express, (2022) Jenny Chan
Foxconned labour as the dark side of the information age: Working conditions at Apple’s contract manufacturers in China. Communication, Capitalism & Critique, (2013) Sandoval, Marisol. (2013)
Tech firms failing to address forced labour in supply chains (2010) Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Computer Weekly
Apple supplier Lens Technology accused of using forced labour in China (2021) Reed Albergotti, Washington Post
USA: Apple agrees to human rights and labour policy audit following investor pressure (2023) Aislinn Murphy, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Tech giants’ pivot out of China can usher in a human rights reset (2023) Michael Caster, Al Jazeera
Abeba Birhane ( Algorithmic Colonization of Africa by Abeba Birhane
Shakir Mohamed, Marie-Therese Png & William Isaac (2020) Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence
Kai-Fu Lee (2017) The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

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Hello, we are scared of Big Tech and iPhones are cursed!

This ep the girls are getting into the dark side of Apple: how was it able grow so exponentially in the noughties?

References:

Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour The Foxconn Suicide Express, (2022) Jenny Chan
Foxconned labour as the dark side of the information age: Working conditions at Apple’s contract manufacturers in China. Communication, Capitalism & Critique, (2013) Sandoval, Marisol. (2013)
Tech firms failing to address forced labour in supply chains (2010) Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Computer Weekly
Apple supplier Lens Technology accused of using forced labour in China (2021) Reed Albergotti, Washington Post
USA: Apple agrees to human rights and labour policy audit following investor pressure (2023) Aislinn Murphy, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Tech giants’ pivot out of China can usher in a human rights reset (2023) Michael Caster, Al Jazeera
Abeba Birhane ( Algorithmic Colonization of Africa by Abeba Birhane
Shakir Mohamed, Marie-Therese Png & William Isaac (2020) Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence
Kai-Fu Lee (2017) The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

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S1 Ep3: Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry?

Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry?

Description:

In this episode, Larissa joins Justin Sardo, a member of the collective A Growing Culture, to talk about the food sovereignty movement. Three years on from the outbursts of solidarity we saw with the Indian Farmers’ Movement, we need to sustain our solidarity with farmers, foresters, landworkers, peasant-led and indigenous-led land and food rights campaigns. The dominant food system separates us into food producers or consumers, and takes power away from us all. Take a listen to hear all the mic drop moments from Justin, to hear us drag capitalism (again!) and to learn about movements on the ground in The Philippines, Brazil, the US, the UK and beyond.

Resources:

shado’s article series in collaboration with A Growing Culture which spotlights the work being done by Land Defenders around the world : Land Defenders
shado Knowledge Page: What is food sovereignty? by The Landworkers' Alliance
shado Knowledge Page: What are food systems? by A Growing Culture
shado Knowledge Page: What is Seed Sovereignty? by A Growing Culture

Article recommendations:

Transforming our local food systems by The Landworkers' Alliance
“Africa is being recolonised”: Seed sovereignty as a form of resistance - an interview between Ellen Miles and Kenyan activities Leonida Odongo

Podcast: Farmerama | Podcast on Spotify

Organisations:

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S1 Ep5: Can an art movement help us solve the world's problems?

Have you ever felt hopeless? Like everything is too complicated? Society is too hard to change?

Then maybe you need a bit of Solarpunk in your life, an art aesthetic / literary genre / political movement, proposing a radical different way of living and being.

In this episode, co-host Zoe fangirls over Andrew Sage, an artist, YouTuber and organiser on solarpunk and leftist politics. Andrew deftly diagnoses our inability to radically change society is rooted in that we don’t know what alternative we are proposing. Solarpunk provides a vision for us to work towards, and values to build sustainable and successful movements for change.

In the words of Toni Cade Bambara, “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”

Check out Andrews YouTube here YouTube.com/Andrewism & Patreon here patreon.com/saintdrew

References:

Solaprpunk reading list: