11.04.2026 –, Münzenbergsaal Sprache: Deutsch
Supply Chain Panel: Destruction and Resistance from Mining to Disposal
This panel brings together activists and practitioners from Europe and Africa to discuss the supply chains and resource extraction that feed Big Tech's expansion. This panel will explore the environmental destruction, resource consumption, and human rights abuses that underpin and are often invisibilized in technology production. Drawing on the experiences of human rights and environmental defenders in Germany and the DRC, the panel highlights strategies of resistance across geographies and at all phases of production, and the tools and strategies available to movements fighting Big Tech.
Tommy works as a scholar-activist in Berlin on topics related to fossil extractivism, environmental politics, and just transitions. They also enjoy designing simulation exercises for movement building and for fun.
Caro Weber is active in the alliance Tesla den Hahn abdrehen. Since 2023 local citizens as well as activists organised demonstrations, talks and walks through the forest, camps, and festivities against the destruction of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide. Their focus is the protection of water resources.
I’m a member of the FreeCongo Collective and currently pursuing my MSc in Political Science at the University of Bonn. Within the collective, I carry out political educational work on the DRC where I focus on raising awareness of global interconnections. In addition, I am involved in other networks such as the DKI (Deutsch-kongolesisches Institut e.V.) and Team Congo Paris. In recognition of my academic and civil engagement I was awarded with the German-Congolese Education award in 2024.
Julia Albrecht works with the Berlin-based NGO WEED – World Economy, Ecology and Development on raw materials policy and global supply chains. Her work focuses on environmental destruction and human rights violations linked to the extraction and processing of metallic resources, as well as on European raw materials policy and corporate due diligence.
Lars Hirsekorn, seit 1994 bei Volkswagen in Braunschweig beschäftigt. Durch die Klimadebatte von 2019, angestoßen durch Greta Thünberg, hat er begonnen sich auch mit den ökologischen Auswirkungen der Produkte zu beschäftigen. Seit 2022 ist er Mitglied des Betriebsrates im braunschweiger VW Werk. Er veröffentlichte bisher mehrere Reden und Interviews. 2022 verfasste er einen Beitrag in Spurwechsel Studien zu Mobilitätsindustrien, Beschäftigungspotenzialen und alternativer Produktion VSA 2022.