On the 2024 Apple launch of new products, a march and rally was held at the world headquarters in Cupertino to protest the crimes of Apple in the Congo where child labor is being used to mine cobalt for Apple products. Speakers also protested the role of Apple in supporting the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Apple is providing funding to employees who are in the IDF and committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Speakers also reported that Apple is harassing Muslim employees and allowing harassment by Zionists at the company. This action and rally took place on September 9, 2024. Additional Media: Apple Toxic Crimes, The Santa Clara FAB and The EPA With Fired Apple Whistleblower Ashley M. Gjøvik • Apple Toxic Crimes, The Santa Clara F… Apple Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik On Retaliation, Toxics & Corruption-Poisoning The People & Workers • Apple Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik On … The Union Busting War On Apple Workers & NLRB Ruling For Fired Apple Worker Ashley M. Gjøvik • The Union Busting War On Apple Worker… US Labor Secretary Marty Walsh: Stop US DOL OSHA Whistleblower Corruption Now https://www.change.org/p/marty-walsh-…http://justiceatapple.com/ Apple Toxic Is It Above The Law? With Whistleblower Ashley M. Gjøvik • Apple Toxic Is It Above The Law? With… Kamala Harris, Zionism, The Demos, The AFL-CIO Tops, Genocide & US Labor Imperialism • Links Between Zionism, Histadrut, So… Links Between Zionism, Histadrut, South Africa, CIA & The AFL-CIO At BA Labor For Palestine Conf • Links Between Zionism, Histadrut, So… Zionism, The Histadrut, The AFL-CIO & South Africa • Zionism, The Histadrut, The AFL-CIO &… The Isreali Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang • The Israeli Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Z… Production of Labor Video Project www.labormedia.net
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0:06Areo your taxes are paying for it what would you do and the phone you call them on is also paying for it the phone I
0:15bought is also paying for it what would you be doing I would be also standing
0:20here and condemning what they do yes I would and that’s exactly what I’m here for so I’m going to keep you guys can
0:26keep looking at the pictures because they have to keep exper ing the bombs the bombs are not stopping they’re still
0:33dropping on them right now look look look they’re
0:40kids they’re kids they’re children all of
0:48theming genocide app you hide apple apple You
0:55Can’t Hide You are fing genocide you are fing genocide
1:01now we are on day 388 of a jde in hza that has now moved
1:11to the West [Music] Bank that is 76 plus years of occupation
1:20and illegal apartheid in Congo right now while
1:27you’re looking at your phones there are 40 ,000 children in enslaved labor
1:34digging out Cobalt for your F
1:40[ __ ] we have amazing speakers here today who have by speaking up for Palestine
1:48and Congo have had all sorts of problems in their life and we are here to speak
1:56for the children of Congo for the B babies of Palestine this has to stop the
2:04blood is on your hands apple we see
2:09you so right now we have Zoo from no Tech forthe please take it
2:21away hey y’ um before I begin I see a lot of people out there if you want to
2:27come in a little closer to hear me better that’s okay okay we don’t bite um to kick things off my name is
2:35zoha and I’m here as a representative of the organization no tech for a
2:42partti uh which we also call Nota no tech for apartheid was formed when
2:48Google and Amazon workers heard about a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli
2:55government being signed by Google cloud and Amazon web services
3:00[Music] the contract is about thank you the contract is about providing Cloud
3:05technology to the Israeli government to the Israeli apartheid state and we said
3:11hell no to that as workers all of us can breed between the
3:16lines of what that contract implies it means Google and Amazon are putting
3:22profit over genocide profit over a part side they’re okay with taking dirty
3:29money dirty aparti money as a former Google worker I can tell you my
3:34colleagues and I asked multiple times at our All Hands meetings for clarity about
3:40the scope of the contract and Google always said the same thing this contract
3:47is not directed at highly sensitive classified or military workloads
3:53relevant to weapons or intelligence services but guess what Google lied an
3:59article from The Intercept revealed that project Nimbus supports not just the Israeli government generally it also
4:06supports the Israeli um Defense Forces and the ministry of Defense which I just
4:13find disgusting also Israel weapons defense manufacturers like Israel Aerospace and
4:19Military companies like elbet systems are required by contract to use services
4:25from Project Nimbus for cloud computing needs these these companies are
4:31responsible for manufacturing drones missiles and other weapons Israel has
4:36used to kill Palestinians
4:42shame Google continues to say that they will not design or deploy AI
4:48applications As Weapons or weapon systems or for Mass surveillance but
4:53we’re already there it’s already happening and we see how it’s leading to
4:59the subjugation and genocide of Palestinians Apple shame on you apple
5:07apple shame on you in February at a conference dedicated to project Nimbus the head of
5:13Israel’s National cyber directorate Gabby poroy was contracted was um oh was quoted by
5:22Israeli media as crediting the contract the project Nimbus contract with Google and Amazon with helping the country’s
5:29mil AR retaliation against Hamas Gabby pory literally said
5:37phenomenal things are happening in battle because of the Nimbus public crowd Cloud things things that are
5:45impactful for victory sources told 972 magazine and
5:50another local media Outlet local call that most of the Israeli Army’s intelligence information about
5:57Palestinian military operatives is stored on the Army’s internal computers rather than the public Cloud which is
6:04connected to the internet however according to three system three security sources one of the data systems used by
6:12the Israel uh Israeli military intelligence directorate is stored on Amazon’s public Cloud
6:19AWS the military has been using this system in Gaza for Mass
6:25surveillance since at least the end of 2022 but it wasn’t considered particularly operational before the war
6:33now according to these sources the Amazon system contains a infinite store
6:38of information for the Army to use the IDF meaning Google and Amazon have been
6:43lying to us about their complicity and the genocide of the Palestinian people
6:49by doing business with the apartheid state of Israel and that’s why we’re here at Apple because like Google and
6:56Amazon Apple’s Leadership refuses to listen to its workers Apple workers have
7:03asked the company to stop matching donations to organizations contributing to the genocide of
7:12Palestinians and also to terminate the employment of all employees who are active IDF
7:21members another ask is to shut down Apple research and development centers in
7:27Israel please uh we we also would like them to plead guilty to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s ongoing lawsuit and
7:35pay reparations for decades of Apple’s human rights abuses in the Congo basically Apple’s supply chain is
7:44dirty and apple workers have a right to speak up without fear of retaliation I’m
7:50so proud of the Apple workers inside the company who refuse to be silent and
7:55complicit who organize events like today’s to show Apple leader ship that their voices matter too and that they
8:02want accountability these tech companies are contributing to the economic development
8:08of the apartheid state of Israel they’re ultimately contributing to the tech that
8:14is used by Israel to further its genocide against the Palestinian
8:20people as AI continues to be a buzz within silic Valley AI Weaponry is being
8:25developed and deployed to kill Palestinians it’s already happening and if we don’t continuously stand up to
8:32these companies like we’re doing right now like we’re doing right
8:39now these human rights abuses and this genocide of Palestinians will
8:45continue this will be the new tech normal and we need to fight this Tech
8:52fascism now I have a chant for us that I’d like to end on for for my speaking
8:57bit Apple Apple Apple You Can’t Hide apple apple You Can’t Hide You are
9:03funding genocide you are funding genocide apple apple You Can’t Hide
9:09apple apple You Can’t Hide You are funding genocide you are funding
9:15genocide and apple are all complicit and actually funding a
9:21genocide in both Congo and Palestine so now we have a reading by Johnny and
9:30isma regarding Palestine oh regarding the genocide that is
9:36happening with your money there’s blood on your hands we are here today to stand
9:41in solidarity with Palestine as their genocide is carried out by Israel Apple
9:46supports and funds the Israeli occupation as we’ve Beed witness to the
9:52most horrible
9:58atrocities is supports concentration camps
10:03and settler violence genocide and extermination Apple’s complicity in
10:10imperialism costs lives and families being torn apart slavery and
10:16apartheid destabilization of humanity due to
10:21imperialism I’m here to talk about our brothers and sisters suffering in
10:27Congo take a look around what do you see huge glass panes fancy
10:34imported Limestone manicured Landscaping Apple will tell you that they created
10:40this wealth that they produced it that it is their so-called
10:46Innovation that’s what makes them deserving of all of this
10:51grander but inside each and every Apple product we whether it be your iPhone
10:58your MacBook or your Apple Vision um Pros are minerals minerals that are not mined
11:06here in Silicon Valley but throughout the global South and the
11:12Congo we have long known that much of the mineral mining in Congo is
11:18controlled by militia groups that use child labor and
11:23violent extraction methods Apple knows this and they say that they’re taking it
11:29very seriously and yet in 2019 the company was sued by families of child
11:35laborers forced to work in congales Cobalt mines do you want to
11:40guess what happened to that suit the courts threw it out [Applause]
11:47sh they said that even with the cobal mine cobal was mined by children even if
11:55the mines were pressured to use children to to meet the rising demands of from
12:01Apple and from other um tech companies and even if Apple directly benefited from the lower cost
12:10of cobalt enabled by the these practices the company was not at
12:16fault they kept their hands clean even as their money was drenched in blood to
12:23help manage their mineral sourcing Apple relies on the ITX
12:29C the international tin association’s program for
12:34responsible mineral Supply chains please look it up it’s the
12:41itci please look it up the program claims to help companies avoid conflict financing human rights abuses and
12:48bribery in Mineral Supply chains but a global witness report investigation
12:53found that in reality the itci functions as a mineral launderer sh shame
13:00sh hiding the true origins of bloody minerals and keeping apple and all those
13:05other tech companies reputations clean and so it is no surprise that the funding for this due diligence scheme
13:13comes from Big Tech and that the shots are called by big Tech these companies benefit from cheap minerals and
13:20exploited labor they know that true regulation of or any form of Equitable
13:25mining or trade in the Congo would hurt their profits
13:32and so they allow this system to continue building their campus their offices their homes and their wealth on
13:39the mass suffering and death of the congales people and oppressed people everywhere
13:44sh and they keep us distracted releasing useless new devices hoping we look the
13:50other way and we have but look away no longer so Tim Cook and all you greedy
13:56CEOs we know what you are we will not be distracted and we will not be silenced
14:02suffering and violence at the hands of Western profiteers and colonists is nothing new for the Congo and it is
14:09nothing new for Palestine generations of Palestinians and congales people have had their resources human rights and
14:16sovereignty stripped for the benefit of Western capitalists Shame Shame as consumers and workers we must
14:24commit to withholding our labor and our money from these entities so we will rally and we will boycott and make our
14:30voices heard we will make it clear that we will not rest and we will not be satisfied until the people of Congo the
14:37people of Palestine the people of Sudan Tigra Haiti and all people suffering
14:42under the oppression of Western imperialism are free free free Palestine and Congo you will be
14:50free and again my name is ibraim I’m an organizer
14:56with the party for socialism and Liberation and and I’m a Palestinian American who has lost family in the
15:02ongoing genocide being conducted in naaza the same genocide that tech
15:08companies here in the bay like apple and meta and Google all Provide support for
15:13Shame Shame they’re hoping that they can distract us with fancy new gadgets and
15:20change the narrative from the crimes that they complicit in shame
15:25shame they’re hoping that we’re going to forget and move on on from the genocide and from how they’re exploiting the
15:31Congo but are we going to forget it is for this reason that we
15:37must not stop we must not rest because the people of Palestine the people of Gaza and the people of the Congo cannot
15:44stop and they cannot rest and we have to use our comfort and our privilege here
15:49in the belly of the Beast to get organized to make a stand and stand up
15:55against these greedy capitalists who are exploiting the global South and it’s for that reason that I say free
16:02free Palestine free free Palestine just recently Asar an American citizen went
16:11to the West Bank with protection services and the genocidal idea sniped
16:18her in the head and so we would like to take just
16:25one of Silence in remember
16:31[Music] are all kids comfortable it is a Palestine
16:39Congo anyone criticizing this after we viewed 200 zip tide bodies buried in a
16:49mass grave outside a hospital we are here for Humanity we are
16:57here for the children our next speaker is here for friend of
17:03Congo Xavier please take it
17:09away hey everyone I’m Xavion uh firstly thank you to everyone that that sees the
17:17importance right that that we’re in a very privileged place to be able to take
17:23the time and energy to really amplify awareness
17:29um and and some are in a even more privileged place to be without that information or to disregard it um but
17:36I’m here on behalf of friends of the
17:43Congo friends of awesome thank you yeah I’m I’m here on behalf of friends of the Congo and um
17:51one of the things that we really wanted to make clear was it is vital that we place apple and
17:59all the other companies along the supply chain in the proper context right the Congo was designed by Europeans in 1884
18:0685 for extraction for plunder for theft of natural
18:12resources that design has not changed at all
18:17there that challenge of the Congo is really structural it’s also systemic and
18:25it’s very much rooted in colonial Legacy it’s rooted in capitalism it’s rooted in
18:32imperialism and if we understand the structural challenge that we quickly are able to recognize apple is merely a
18:39symptom of Congo’s Challenge and not the cause the cause is capitalism the cause
18:45is imperialism and is deeply rooted in racism and white supremacy therefore our
18:50battle is anti- capitalistic and it is also anti-imperialistic so we thank you
18:59so we are we are using apple as a symbol as we make what is really
19:06symptomatic demands we appeal to you to join us in the pursuit of dismantling the system that
19:14has caused for 70 million congales people to live on merely
19:20$2.15 a day in contrast Israeli billionaire Dan
19:26girtler has made billions ions off of congales people and earns
19:32$200,000 a day and it is the system that produces this level of inequality and
19:38disparity that we have to tackle that has to be at Focus so we appeal to you
19:45to join us in this dignified pursuit of the congales people to reclaim their land to reclaim their resources to
19:51reclaim their Affairs so that the congales people will be free and liberated and that all people will be
19:58free free and liberated and you can visit freec con.org for more information it’s so important that we take the time
20:05whether you’re on this side or that side to educate yourself to become aware and
20:10yes it’s a lot of information it’s a lot happening but death is a lot it’s a lot
20:17so it there is nothing there is nothing that is too important for us to take the
20:22time to make sure that we all can live a free and dignified life thank you
20:31[Music]
20:42I don’t give a [ __ ] hey it’s not no no no no no let’s not do that I could do what I want it’s a free country and this is a public place free free free free
20:52freeo fre free fre pal free free pal free
21:01pal con con please pleas eating a corporate bre
21:14[Music] Corp and it goes like this over the
21:19years Apple has used quotes from famous civil rights leaders and social justice
21:25Advocates to capitalize on us they take advant AG of our human desires for goodness and equality to sell us
21:33products that have been crafted and made possible by slave labor for years they
21:39have gotten away with pretending to care about the Earth but they refuse to
21:45acknowledge your complicity in doing business and elevating a country that
21:50dropped more bombs on haa in 11 months than any country any War throughout the
21:57entire World War II and Hiroshima and
22:03nakasaki they refused to moderate their online spaces to allow zionists to come
22:09in and harass Muslims within their chat spaces punishing those Muslim employees
22:16for posting verses of the Quran while letting Zionist racism go
22:23[Music] unchecked worst of all Apple has no audit process to confirm if any of its
22:31Israeli employees performing mandatory service in the IDF are committing war
22:36crimes and they pay their full salary while they do so they are complicit in
22:43some of the worst atrocities of modern history all while ignoring Palestinians within the company begging them to
22:49acknowledge their suffering the same way Tim Cook was able to acknowledge Israeli
22:55suffering on October 7th well he made a statement on October 9th this is why we
23:03have come together with our congales brothers and sisters Apple believes
23:08these issues and concerns will simply wither away in time and they will have
23:14no responsibility to respond to us but make no mistake we will continue to
23:20stand against this racism against the lack of care for Humanity and human
23:26rights and be here till Apple actually commits to its ideals of social justice
23:35this is from d and thank you all for being here I want to remind you too that
23:41genocide is ecocide and apple pretending to be caring for the environment and a
23:47green future we are speeding up climate change in incredible length it shortened
23:53the time to maybe two years now that we’re facing catastrophe and this is all
23:59for the greed of technology and War we are not disposable humans are not
24:07disposable Palestinians and congales are not disposable the global South is not
24:13disposable for our [Music]
24:21privilege like it it put you here on purpose be against
24:28us make Pur the white
24:34Char purpose so back [Music]
24:53up I need you to me I need you to me space
25:04got a lot
25:12of want [Applause]
25:18want make a scene it’s not
25:29[Music] [Applause]
25:37I don’t think you want to get Hur back it up back it up it up want to get hurt
25:43[Applause] baby [ __ ] I don’t think you want to
25:51get keep this peaceful we
25:58we
26:06[Applause]
26:11[Applause] [Music]
26:16were the line
26:24[Applause]
26:33she came
26:50us we just want to make sure peaceful
26:59yeah but yeah got get we just asking you guys to be from the street
27:16line
27:24your Stay Focus Stay Focus Stay Focus Stay Focus the police
27:31think that be would be we if we could just get
27:36[Applause]
27:44itace F coming out and engaging I think like
27:59that does sense comp apple apple your
28:05compc genocide is explicit genocide is
28:23explicit every house and every King every and every
28:33[Applause] [Music] free free
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28:44Freo you’re shopping BS are droppings are dropping Areo
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30:13fre the occupation now the occupation
30:19now the occation now and the occupation
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30:51terrorist State Israel is a terrorist State Israel is a terrorist state Israel
30:58is a terrorist state
