Remaking tech from below

Collective Action School (formerly known as Logic School) is an online, experimental school for tech workers produced by Logic Foundation with support from Processing Foundation.

Our goal is to cultivate a space for deep critical thinking, reflection and action around the role of tech and the tech industry. It can be easy to feel hopeless right now. We are in the midst of multiple, overlapping crises, where tech is deeply intertwined with the current, underlying conditions: from the rise of tech CEOs aligning themselves with anti-democratic forces, a backlash against worker organizing, continued surveillance of marginalized communities and the negative climate impact of generative AI. We hope our community can support deep practice in organizing within tech, worldbuilding and stewarding networks of mutual aid with technology. We find hope in community and collective learning.

We are a community built school. Our 12-week curriculum draws from the worlds of activism, design, and software engineering. We believe the people who make the tech industry run—its workers—have the power to not only transform it, but to radically build and imagine new technologies and new ways that technology can help shape the world.

At Collective Action School, we want to know – what are the underlying conditions that have grown the world we live in now? What are the underlying conditions we need to create, to live in the world we want? We believe technology (from the distributed web to ancestral technologies) still has a role to play in answering these questions.

Applications are currently closed.

Please see yearbooks from Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 to understand what we’re all about.

Year 2 stewards, mentors, advisors and librarians

 
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Year 2 Guest Lecturers

Ifeoma Ozoma, Founder of Earthseed, Director of Tech Accountability at UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice

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Shazeda Ahmed, Princeton University, Center for Information Technology Policy

FAQs

TL;DR:

Who is Collective Action School for?

We welcome all tech workers who are interested in, but have very little to no experience organizing or building community technology. We understand ‘tech worker’ as a broad term: we welcome project managers, warehouse workers, software engineers, ride share drivers and gig workers. Applicants must not be full time K-12 or university students. 

Applicants who are part of unions or are actively involved in organizing efforts such as Tech Workers Coalition, may not find this program to be suitable for them  (although you are welcome to join our public Tuesday lectures!)

When is Collective Action School?

Collective Action School runs for thirteen (13) weeks, from March 17 2026 to June 11th 2026  with a one week school break during that time.

We meet twice (2x) a week. There will be an online lecture portion on Tuesdays that is open to our broader community. The 2026 cohort will meet in-person on Thursdays from 6:30-8:30pm local time to discuss readings and lectures, and work on their final projects.

We plan on having cohorts in the SF Bay Area and New York City at this time.

What will I do in Collective Action School?

As a participant, you will work towards a final project as part of the program. Collective Action School covers issues of justice in tech through a multitude of approaches — whether it’s organizing in the workplace, contributing to an existing data visualization project or worker-owned platform, or working on an open-source project.

Collective Action School meets for a one-hour virtual lecture and an in-person two-hour session each week. Before the in-person session, you are expected to complete self-guided work: listening, reading, reflecting, and making progress on final projects. Organizing is a muscle. You will also co-organize some of the school’s sessions, as well as contributing to CAS’s ethos as a community-led school.

Check out our Program page for details or projects from Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 to see what this looks like in practice. 

Is it free?

Yes! Collective Action School is 100% free, thanks to support from Processing Foundation and the financial support of the Omidyar Network’s The Tech We Want Program. 

What’s the time commitment?

About 7 hours a week: 1 hour lecture + 2 hours live meeting + at least 3 hours of project work and reading/listening. Both the  lecture and the live meeting will be scheduled for a weeknight, prioritizing US time zones.

Given the time commitment, especially as the program encourages working towards a final project, we offer various types of support, including research help, collaborative office hours and one-on-one advising sessions and a small final project stipend

I’m not sure if I’m interested in organizing just yet. Can I attend your lectures?

About 7 hours a week: 1 hour lecture + 2 hours live meeting + at least 3 hours of project work and reading/listening. Both the  lecture and the live meeting will be scheduled for a weeknight, prioritizing US time zones.

Given the time commitment, especially as the program encourages working towards a final project, we offer various types of support, including research help, collaborative office hours and one-on-one advising sessions and a small final project stipend

Check out our Program Details page.