Rally for The People's Future: Defend Human Work
Start: Thursday, July 09, 2026•04:00 PM
End: Thursday, July 09, 2026•06:00 PM
Location: Historic Fourth Ward Park• 680 Dallas St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308 US
Host contact info atlantardu@gmail.com
On July 9th rideshare drivers, workers, community organizations, labor advocates, and Atlanta residents will come together to rally for The People's Future. Across our city, powerful corporations are rapidly deploying driverless vehicles, artificial intelligence, surveillance systems, and automation technologies without meaningful public input or protections for the people whose jobs, privacy, and communities are affected. Billionaires and technocrats market this as the way of the future, but we know that without people-centered politics it will be a future where workers are replaced, neighborhoods are monitored, and decisions are made for us instead of by us.
Waymo's driverless cars threaten the livelihoods of thousands of professional drivers. Artificial intelligence and automation are increasingly being used to eliminate jobs in transportation, logistics, delivery, customer service, and other industries. At the same time, expanding surveillance networks, including automated camera systems, raise serious concerns about privacy, civil liberties, and accountability. Massive data centers consume enormous amounts of energy and resources while helping fuel technologies that many communities never asked for and have little control over.
We are demanding that elected officials put people before profits. We call for an immediate moratorium on the expansion of autonomous vehicles until their economic impacts are fully addressed; stronger protections against worker displacement caused by automation and AI; transparency, oversight, and limits on surveillance technologies; and meaningful public input before new technologies that reshape our economy and neighborhoods are deployed. Technology should serve workers and communities—not replace them. Atlanta's future belongs to people, not algorithms.
Hosted by the Atlanta Rideshare Drivers Union & the Atlanta Workers Assembly
