NEW—@middleeasteye’s deep-dive feature on @Google’s retaliation, silencing, and harassment of Google workers with #NoTechForApartheid who are organizing against Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2 billion dollar cloud computing contract with Israel. The article features several of our worker-organizers who continue to resist Project Nimbus in the race of retaliation and repression.
The IOF’s use of tech and AI is playing a pivotal role in this genocide, supercharging Israel’s killing machine as tech imperialists like Google and Amazon continue to shamelessly power this violence.
For years, Google workers have been organizing to pressure the company to drop the contract with Israel, citing ethical concerns around AI technologies powering the occupation, surveillance, and genocide of Palestinians. In trying to raise the concerns internally within Google, “leadership” has responded by ignoring and censoring workers. The racist harassment of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Google workers by Zionist colleagues through confrontations, mass falsified HR reports, and doxxing has gone largely unaddressed by Google.
In an aggressive & desperate act of retaliation, Google fired 50 workers, including non-participating bystanders, as a response to April 16th’s historic, coast-to-coast sit-ins that took place inside Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale and at Google NYC. Through this historic, worker action — the first of its kind in tech — Google workers w the #NoTechForApartheid campaign demanded that their employer cut its $1.2B Project Nimbus contract with Israel. In the aftermath of the sit-in, Google fired 50 workers in an unprecedented act of mass retaliation and called for the arrest of 9 workers who refused to disperse until Nimbus was dropped.
No matter what Google executives do, its workers—the ones who actually make the company run—workers will not stop organizing until Google stops powering the genocide of Palestinians and until Palestine is free. With over 186,000 Palestinians in Gaza murdered by Israel’s bombs, our demand could not be more urgent.
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