After his replacement by Biden in 2020, Trump consistently telegraphed his intent, should he re-take power, to eliminate democracy, remain in power indefinitely, persecute his enemies, scapegoat and persecute unpopular minorities, and wreck the planet. All signs indicated he would waste no time picking up where he left off at the end of his first term. Furthermore, given the rapid progress that the biggest tech companies, including Google, had made in integrating with the military-industrial complex in the last decade, meant that Trump would have enormous material leverage over these companies. We knew that Trump would use this leverage to secure access to the powers of surveillance capitalism these tech Oligarchs wield, and given Trump's authoritarian tendencies, we feared he would work to establish an unprecedented scale of Techno-Totalitarianism from the top of the world's greatest military power. As soon as the election was finalized, we knew we had to begin organizing immediately if we had any chance of building a resistance capable of disrupting the wedding between tech and fascism on the aggressive timeline that Trump would attempt to bring it about.

In recent years, Google has put itself on the wrong side of every existential struggle for a livable future for humanity, and of every global struggle for equality and justice. To resist Google, concerned workers need to work with a broad coalition of constituents from each of these struggles to achieve enough leverage to bring Google to the negotiating table. Therefore, our demands must include the urgent needs of each of these impacted communities; and we must all stand together until all of those demands are met.

Trump's re-election to a Republican trifecta firmly under his direction, with the assent of tech Oligarchs and capitalists more generally, made all previous constitutional guarantees unlikely to remain in place. For it's part, Google's unceremonious firing of 50 of it's workers who were protesting our complicity in the world's first live-streamed AI-powered genocide - workers who were engaging in legally protected activity under the National Labor Relations Act - proved that Google no longer cared about it's public image, and either believed that the U.S. legal system (under either potential administration) would side with Google, or was prepared to eat the legal costs it would incur, in order to show investors and it's new military-industrial customer base that it was serious about meeting their needs. Neither constitutional protections nor labor law could be relied on to facilitate our organizing. Furthermore, the integration of military, intelligence, and law enforcement officials into the ranks of Google leadership meant that attempts to organize within company-owned infrastructure would be subject to increasing digital surveillance, censorship, and preemption. And if we were going to motivate Google to change, we could not rely on simply winning the war of information - we can only motivate Google to change if we can convert it's misbehavior into concrete business cost. And given the hostile internal environment at Google, and the fact that worker organizing at Google is still in the very early stages, we concluded that we could not do it from the inside alone - to win on Trump's aggressive timeline, we concluded that we must pool the knowledge and positionality that workers of conscience *do* have, with mass movements directly impacted by Google's business decisions, who are more directly motivated to make real change.