Supplemental Resources
Session 4 Resources
Tech Liberation: Resisting Technofascism & Building Counterpower
In this new session, we confront technofascism -- the political project of tech oligarchy. It surveils, extracts, dispossesses and controls, from Palestine to Canada. In the North, control hides under the guise of convenience, safety and innovation. In the Global South, it is unabashedly violent, tested, perfected, and funded by the North, before it's normalized everywhere else.
These are not separate struggles. They are one system. And our liberation is bound up in each other's.
Together we'll see the system, connect the struggles, and map the tools of counterpower: tech sovereignty, platform cooperatives, the solidarity stack, open source, data trusts, worker organizing, reclaimed attention. We'll finally imagine liberatory futures rooted in alternatives already being built.
Learning Outcomes:
- Gain a holistic understanding of technofascism and how it fuels struggles far beyond tech
- Map the tools of counterpower and how to feasibly wield them
- Leave with concrete options for resistance at individual and collective scales
- Counter Big Tech's monoculture of imagined futures by envisioning sovereign, cooperative tech futures together
- Shape what collective next steps the group wants to take (degoogling sessions, further discussions, skillshares...)
- Return to human connection as a fundamental part of resistance itself
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The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next (Prof. Francesca Bria and xof-research.org, 2025)
A living, open source dataset and report documenting how tech billionaires like Thiel, Musk, Andreessen, Karp and others, are concretely pursuing “the remaking of sovereignty as a private asset class”.
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism (Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor, 2026)
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on the alliance of tech billionaires, Christian nationalists and ethno-nationalists who believe the end times are coming and are positioning themselves to survive and profit from this collapse. One point where these plans converge: Gaza.
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Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism (Mark Coeckelbergh)
Mark Coeckelbergh’s foundational essay coining the term “technofascism”, arguing that Big Tech billionaires are actively aligning with and accelerating the West’s authoritarian turn; while AI’s current underlying mechanisms of control inherently produce fascist conditions, independent of intent.
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The Palestine Laboratory E2 : How is Israel’s military tech marketed abroad?
Lowenstein traces surveillance tech from Palestine to borders worldwide, arguing what’s for sale is not just weapons but an ideology of control.
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Campaign against Project Nimbus gathers steam and supporters (Omar Zahzah)
Zahzah tracks No Tech for Apartheid’s escalating resistance to Google’s Project Nimbus, and fleshes out his framework of digital/settler-colonialism – the strategic convergence of Big Tech and settler colonialism.
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A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500 (Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler, 2023)
A visual genealogy mapping how information infrastructure and technology have co-evolved with colonial expansion, state militarization, enclosure and social control since 1500.
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Elbows Up: How Canada Can Disenshittify Tech, Reclaim Its Sovereignty & Launch a New Tech Sector (Cory Doctorow, 2026)
Cory Doctorow’s clear-eyed case for so-called Canada to reclaim its tech sovereignty through policy reform and a robust homegrown tech sector, independent from US Big Tech.
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The Solidarity Stack (Trebor Scholz & Morshed Mannan)
An alternative framework for a co-operative counter-architecture to Big Tech’s AI Empire, aiming to reclaim the tech stack, layer by layer.
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The Canadian Solidarity Stack for AI
A co-operative blueprint and feasibility study for building an alternative, community-owned and solidarity-based AI tech stack in so-called Canada.
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Platform Co-operative Directory - Platform Cooperativism Consortium
A global directory of platform and tech co-operatives.
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Tech Reclaimers
Tech Reclaimers is a labor of love: a sprawling grassroots community and extensive repository of resources, practical tools and step-by-step guides for reclaiming your sovereignty, data, and attention from Big Tech. It covers everything from federated social media to mesh networks and reclaiming your attention.
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Tech Workers Coalition and its Canadian Chapter.
Game Workers Union
Worker-led coalitions organizing tech workers for labor power.
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The World After Amazon
A storytelling project that moves past Big Tech propaganda and helps to support workers to reclaim the power of future-making. Available in book, audiobook and podcast format.
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7amleh publications
7amleh's ongoing publications tracking Palestinian digital rights violations, censorship, and AI's impact on Palestinian lives in real time
Sessions
- The Crisis of Capitalism 101
- Land, Food and Indigenous-led Movements
- Activism and Community Care as Collective Infrastructure
- Tech Liberation: Resisting Technofascism & Building Counterpower
- How to Organize a Union: Best Practices
- Organizing Out of a "Housing Crisis"
- Part 1: Think Outside the Boss
- Part 2: Beyond the Boss, Governing Together
Contact:
Hannah Ostiguy Hopp
programs@solidarityeconomy.ca