Ethics In Tech drops candy instead of bombs. While our inept leaders look to drop bombs we drop sweets. You are invited to our upcoming Candy Drop. We have found a local San Francisco small business and we will be delivering Fudge and Candies for anyone that wants it in the US. (Not available in Hawaii or Alaska). For folks not interested in candy they can ask us to donate the proceeds to a nonprofit of Ethics In Tech choice dealing with frontline victims of war and its refugees.

Ethics in Tech makes a few dollars with this Fudge drop.

We are shipping you candy so tickets are nonrefundable. When it comes to privacy we will only provide your address to the Candy Shop to mail candies.

Host: Vahid Razavi

A technology Veteran of Silicon Valley. Vahid has founded, advised and worked in senior management roles in Silicon Valley. He has published two books, The Age of Nepotism and Ethics In Tech and Lack Thereof. As a lifelong activist and humanitarian he has published hundreds of articles and videos on various social issues including tech industry and social injustice. He has previously worked for companies such as Amazon Web Services, Fast Search, Exodus Communications, Qwest Communications, and was the founder of the Cloud Computing Company BizCloud.

Speakers:

José is the Community Manager at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In 1990, he experienced United States war from the other side, visiting his family in Panamá while it was under US occupation. He has organized against war and militarism ever since.

Rev. Martin Todd Allen is an Associate Minister at the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples. He is scheduled to graduate with a Doctor of Ministry(DMin) at the Pacific School of Religion May 2020. His DMin project trains congregations to demand and demonstrate eco-socialist alternatives to global capitalism. Previously, Rev. Allen worked as a prison, hospital and military Chaplain and currently works as a hospice chaplain in the South Bay. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of The Human Agenda.

Janet Weil is a longtime peace and environmental activist. After a career teaching English to immigrants, Janet served on CodePink’s national staff for several years. She helped organize the first CodePink action against killer drones at Creech Air Force Base in 2009, and has participated in 5 “Creech Shutdowns” from 2009 – 2015. In 2011, she co-founded the SF99% Coalition, to provide support to the Occupy Movement and to work collaboratively with representatives of the peace, labor, faith and environmental organizations of San Francisco. The SF99% Coalition was successful in getting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution opposing the indefinite detention provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. In summer 2013, Janet was a lead organizer of a well-attended workshop using revelations exposed by Edward Snowden and published on Wikileaks. For 4 years, Janet served as the Mistress of Ceremonies for the annual awards dinner for local activists (once with Vahid as co-MC.) Janet’s writing, both prose and poetry, has been published on the CodePink blog Pink Tank, Common Dreams, Women’s Older Wisdom blog, Oregon Poetry Association, and other outlets. Her college degrees include a BA in History from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s in Education from San Francisco State University. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon after many years in California. The development and use of technology in balance with human needs and environmental limits, in a world at peace, is her lifelong aspiration.

Brett Wilkins is a staff writer at Common Dreams and communications cordinator for San Francisco Bernicrats. He has published articles at Salon.com, Truthout, the Asia Times, teleSur, the Jakarta Post and Yahoo News, among other outlets. He was also a member of Collective 20, whose members included Michael Albert, Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher Jr. and other leftist writers and activists.