🚨BREAKING: WORKERS AND COMMUNITY RE-ESTABLISH LIBERATED ZONE (ENCAMPMENT) AT MICROSOFT HQ, REDMOND POLICE AND MICROSOFT RETALIATE WITH BRUTALITY AND 18 ARRESTS 🚨
Earlier today, Microsoft workers and community members re-established a Liberation Zone at the Martyred Palestinian Children’s Plaza, after Microsoft security and Redmond police forced a dispersal on Tuesday. Protesters set up tents, displayed art to honor Palestinian martyrs, and gave speeches about Microsoft’s complicity in the surveillance and genocide of Palestinians.
In response to this peaceful opposition of war crimes, Microsoft and Redmond Police retaliated against protestors with the brutal mass arrest of 18 protestors, chemical weapons, and physical violence. Current workers, former workers, and community members were hog-tied, violently dragged around, and pepper sprayed in a repressive escalation. Microsoft and Redmond Police chose to dehumanize, brutalize, and criminalize people of conscience for opposing Microsoft’s ACTUAL war crimes.
As we recognize the sacrifice made by those arrested today, we also recognize that this militarism and physical violence pale in comparison to the experiences Palestinians are forced to endure. Every day for the past 22 months, the Israeli military has used Microsoft technology to starve and bomb Palestinians in Gaza, while actively displacing Palestinians in an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Despite today’s brutal repression, let us be clear: no violence will successfully shut down escalation efforts against Microsoft’s complicity in war crimes. The Worker Intifada is an answer to Gaza’s call for action, and so The Worker Intifada will live on. THE MORE THEY TRY TO SILENCE US, THE LOUDER WE WILL BE! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! NO AZURE FOR APARTHEID!
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