Alex Au

• Local production - good for climate change
• People power - bargaining power - important for people to have more resource.
• Middle class privilege - found out about oppression of other people 5 years ago. Own oppression played into things.
• Startup CTO - selling to other corporations how to learn a language for other business. Quit a year and a half ago after 4.5 years. Liked it a lot, was well paid and respected. But impact on the world was enriching corporations. Felt like he was responsible for the team, didn't quit until they got stable (
• OSE: taking the work to the next level
• Oppression of other people - read Noam Chomsky. Had a white liberal lens, but did not understand that he was under white supremacy.
• Part of his own praxis - is that if you do work that benefits the most oppressed people, then you lift up all boats. Prioritize ableism, black, trans, sex workers. Migrants. Poor white trash. Capitalist white supremacy.
• Rad Chinese - to create political analysis for power building in their community. Distinguishing between actions that ask the political system for change. Power Building - can they do it themselves.
• Extreme Manufacturing - connotes masculine and intense
• Pop quiz - why radical efficiency.