Movements Conference against Big Tech

We are movements and anti-capitalist activists who practise various forms of resistance against big tech. We want to bring together interested people, activists and movements, network and connect local struggles. We want to deepen our understanding of the problem, exchange ideas about necessary forms of action, develop strategies together and advance the resistance.

Location FMP1, BERLIN
Date APRIL 10-12, 2026

We, the organising movements and activists, present this manifesto as a basis for discussion at the conference. We will refine and build on it for further organising after the conference.

Read the full manifesto 1.0

Big Tech destroys our society and the planet.

Let's resist together and combine our struggles!

We stand against AI and capitalism, for democratic governance and a good life for all.

Currently, digital technologies spearhead capitalist accumulation and destruction. In their current form, they represent a technological assault on our ecological, material and social foundations of life.

We have had enough of Big Tech! We are fighting back!

Big Tech corporations reinforce existing crises and injustices: They contribute significantly to environmental destruction and the climate crisis, they make labour and housing markets even more precarious, they isolate and alienate people that use their services, they exacerbate global inequalities, and they fuel fascism worldwide and facilitate systematic murder in wars and conflicts.

Big Tech leaves a long trail of destruction and exploitation in their wake: They waste energy and water, engage in neocolonial extractivism of rare earths and metals and dump their toxic electronic waste outside of imperial cores. To do so, they leverage deeply entrenched colonial infrastructural power. Big Tech supports the authoritarian isolation from and the hunting of those fleeing technologically amplified conflicts and environmental destitution. They drive automatisation that forces workers in the Majority World into ever more intense exploitation while devaluing and condensing labour in the Minority World.

Digital capital stands behind fascism and is its willing sidekick: Big Tech aims to become the indispensable force shaping the future and forcing upon humankind a dystopia disguised as a promise of prosperity. They disrupt weakened societal structures and wish for nothing more than an "artificial general intelligence", which they worship as omniscient and omnipotent. They strive for the transhumanist overcoming of humans in favour of a supposedly superior species. This is directly related to the eugenics of the nazis: The sorting of people into valuable and unworthy is historically and technically inherent in their technologies. Big Tech demonstrates its desire for total technological control through the development of artificial birth-giving machines, revealing that they want to appropriate and even replace the female body. The fight against feminism and queerness serves the New Right as glue for their often contradictory positions.

We organise and resist!

We want to connect with each other and stand together against the destruction. Our struggles are already coming together in many places: in local resistance against destructive mines and data centres, in workplace organising, at demonstrations and strikes against the arms race and murderous technologies, particularly in Gaza, in urban protests against gentrification and surveillance, in antifascist actions against the New Right, in resistant science and through political hacking.

We want to refuse, hack and shut down Big Tech: Let's find the vulnerabilities, join forces and stop the expansion of Big Tech. We fundamentally reject "artificial intelligence" in particular and consider resistance urgent and necessary in order to render destructive software and hardware harmless and to push back against the technocratic-authoritarian restructuring of our societies.

We want to break up, socialise and transform Big Tech: Let's expropriate and decentralise Big Tech as well as establish radically democratic control over digital infrastructures. We transform them into platforms and networks that redistribute from top to bottom instead of the other way around, facilitate global solidarity instead of making it impossible and protect ecosystems rather than destroy them. We must abolish some digital technologies if we are serious about a good life for all. They irreconcilably contradict what we want: radically democratic, socially and environmentally just societies.

At the conference, we will discuss overarching political developments, forms of resistance, and new strategies. There will be presentations and workshops in the following nine tracks.

Urban policy How is Big Tech changing our cities, our mobility, our neighbourhoods? What can we do about it in urban policy initiatives?
Water and raw materials How does the enormous water demand of chip production and data centres or lithium mining affect people and the environment in different parts of the world? How can we counter this in environmental initiatives?
Labour How are Big Tech companies changing conditions for workers through new forms of global exploitation such as click work, automation or the use of ‘AI’? What can we do about this in collectives, co-ops, companies, trade unions or movements?
Climate and energy How is Big Tech fuelling the climate catastrophe? How can the climate movement incorporate the new questions arising from this into its struggle?
Militarisation How are Big Tech companies involved in global armament and what role do they already play in armed conflicts today? What leverage do we have against this?
Fascism How does Big Tech reinforce fascist and authoritarian tendencies? Which ideologies and modes of operation must we oppose?
Feminism How is Big Tech promoting new anti-feminist and queerphobic discourses? How can we make our struggles against Big Tech feminist?
Futures What might good futures for all look like beyond Big Tech and capitalism?
Art How does BigTech capture art? How can we resist against it?

The program will include workshops, presentations, panel discussions, skill shares, and social events. The complete program can be found at the following link.

Program schedule

Choose your ticket type based on your situation. All tickets provide full access to the conference. Every euro we raise goes towards event-space, live-streaming, translation, food and childcare to support this movements conference!

We will have care/awareness teams, professional childcare, wheelchair accessible venue, quiet rooms, and vegan/halal food. Sessions are in English or German, with select simultaneous interpretation for larger sessions.

If you need additional accommodations, please let us know using the form below.

Language: What language(s) are you comfortable with?
Hosting

Cables of Resistance is not possible without you! The conference is entirely self-organized by team of 40 people that put many hours into the preparation. During the three days we have to rely on you for everything to run smoothly, so that we all get tasty food, participants have contact people, etc., etc. The more volunteer signs, the better it will be for everyone!

You can request to join our volunteer .

Language: What language(s) are you comfortable with?
Time Availability (for 1-2 shifts)
Skills/abilities
Where and when is the conference? Cables of Resistance will be hosted in FMP1 (Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, Berlin, Germany). It is a three-day conference that will take place on the weekend of April 10-12, 2026. The art satellite is located in the Lauseria (Lausitzer Str. 10, 10999 Berlin), a 15-minute walk from the conference venue. The exhibition is open from April 9 to 17, 2026.
How can I attend the conference? Online ticket sales will launch at the end of December 2025. See our for more information. We will also provide information on which parts of the conference will be recorded or potentially streamed.
Who is this conference for? This is a conference for anyone involved in organising against big tech - activists, students, researchers, hackers, artists, or if you are just generally interested. The program will not require previous knowledge. There will be plenty of opportunity to connect and combine struggles and ideas.
What accessibility accommodations are available? We will have care/awareness teams during the conference, professional childcare, wheelchair accessible venue, quiet rooms, and vegan/halal food. Sessions are in English or German, with select simultaneous interpretation for larger sessions. If you need additional accommodations, please fill out the and let us know your needs.
How can I volunteer? Cables of Resistance is not possible without you! The conference is entirely self-organized by team of 40 people that put many hours into the preparation. You can join our care/awareness teams, help with logistics, kitchen/food prep, registration, tech support, and more. Please fill out the to sign up, and join our volunteer !
How can I stay updated about the conference? Join our Telegram channel for the latest updates, announcements, and news about Cables of Resistance.
How do I get in touch? We will provide more information on the program and details over the coming weeks and months. For press please reach out to press@cableresist.de. For other inquiries, you can email the conference organisers at info@cableresist.de or fill the form below