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Cover of The Jewish Labor Bund Bulletin, March 1948, featuring a photo of Shloyme Mendelson and the headline quote about the bitter irony of fascist methods of terror triumphing in Jewish life after the destruction of the Jewish people by fascism.

Doikayt (דאָיִקייט) is Yiddish for "hereness." The term refers to the core concept of the Bundists, members of the General Jewish Labour Bund, a secular socialist movement active in the Eastern Europe beginning around the early 1900's. Bundists were explicitly non- or anti-Zionist -- holding that Jews should build justice and a good life wherever they live, in solidarity with other secular, multi-ethnic, working-class movements -- rather than deferring collective liberation to a national homeland elsewhere.

A red fist on a plain black circle, gripping a broken plug that sparks and spills binary digits -- the Doikayt Mobilization Labs emblem, cropped down to just the fist and background.A Gadsden-flag parody on a yellow field: a coiled rattlesnake wraps around a surveillance camera on a tripod instead of striking, above the caption 'don't flock me,' a play on Flock Safety's surveillance cameras.

"Hereness" to us also means: think globally, but act locally. One of the things each of us can do today -- where ever we happen to be -- is to start ripping out big-tech's cables from our individual lives and organizational workflows. As we work toward that goal by open source-ifying our own infrastructure, we will actively share knowledge gained with anyone else who objects to being constantly marketed to, suppressed and surveilled.

Finally, the internationalist aspect of the Bundists' message bears directly on what we hope to accomplish in building out the projects in our pipeline. In the words of Frederick Douglass: we will "unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong".