about IBM back in 1980 when I was writing a 3-part series in a newspaper for Chicago Public School teachers,
Pt 1) explaining apartheid at that time;
Pt 2) showing how much our pension fund invested in companies doing business in SA and listing them,
Pt. 3) making the case that our pension fund must divest all its holdings in the companies I listed.
What I learned (no computers then, just smuggled info out of SA and pension fund reports) was that IBM was the first to develop the "swipe" feature for South Africa's apartheid government. Black workers forced on pain of death to live in so-called bantustans. could only leave their 'stans' and enter white SA with a passbook that used IBM's barcode system. Yes, with some obvious "tech improvements," this had been around since before Hitler.
We live in a scaled up version of those days of controlling huge populations in high tech serfdoms.
When this slave bill is passed, ALL of America must go on a General Strike.
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