Computer People for Peace explained

Abbreviation:	CPP
Headquarters:	New York City, New York, United States
Membership:	200 at the most

The Computer People for Peace (CPP) was an activist organization active in the technology industry from 1968 to 1974.^[1]

The CPP had its roots in the anti-war movement of the 60s. Its founders included Joan Greenbaum.^[2] Outside the anti-war movement, CPP was against “the use of computer information systems as a means of social control”, “corporate racism” and “the role of automation on rising unemployment.”, among other issues. They intermittently published a newsletter called "Interrupt" until at least March 1973.^[3]

In 1969 they posted bail for one of the Panther 21, Sundiata Acoli, in NYC.^[4]

In 1972 Computer People for Peace addressed Congress about the need to protect citizens from the potential misuse of computer technology.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gaillot . Ann-Derrick . Remembering the '70s activist group that tried to save us from the tech industry . The Outline . outline . en.
2. Web site: Mainframe, Interrupted: Joan Greenbaum on the Early Days of Tech Worker Organizing . Logic Magazine . logicmag.
3. Web site: Computer People for Peace . eli.naeher.name . eli.
4. Book: Wahad . Dhoruba Bin . Joseph . Jamal . Odinga . Sekou . Abu-Jamal . Mumia . Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions . PM Press . en . 5 June 2017. 9781629634074 .
5. Web site: Federal data banks, computers, and the Bill of Rights :hearings ... Ninety-second Congress, first session. . HathiTrust . Washington . hathitrust .