Abstract
When Intel Corporation, a major manufacturer of computer microchips, expanded its investments in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, grass-roots members of the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) took action. SWOP is part of an environmental and economic justice network that links people of color in the Unites States, Mexico, and several native nations. One of the current campaigns of the network is to obtain withheld information about the toxicity of working conditions at the Intel plant and nearby dumps. What is unexpected about this picture? A stark juxtaposition of computer production with pollution may be confounding to academics and other privileged professionals who have the luxury of viewing their desktop machines as ideal intellectual tools.3 The new media (computers, fiber optics, online databases, facsimile, and electronic networks) are widely admired for advancing the
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