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BREAKING—PRO-PALESTINE
@googlecloud
ENGINEER DISRUPTS
@Google
ISRAEL DIRECTOR AT GOOGLE-SPONSORED ISRAELI TECH CONFERENCE IN NYC.
The worker demanded that Google STOP using worker labor to power genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
#NoTechForApartheid
BREAKING—DOZENS OF
@GOOGLE
WORKERS LEAD HISTORIC COAST TO COAST-INS AT
@GOOGLECLOUD
CEO THOMAS KURIAN’S OFFICE IN SUNNYVALE &
@GOOGLE
’s NYC 10TH FLOOR COMMONS. They refuse to leave until
@google
stops powering the genocide in Gaza
LIVESTREAM:
BREAKING—This morning
@TIME
confirmed that Google lied to its own workers, consumers & the press for years, and is in fact providing direct cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli Occupation Forces
The second disruptor, an anti zionist Jewish organizer with
@jvpny
, faced intense harassment from conference security and zionist attendees.
#notechforapartheid
BREAKING—
@google
also orders for arrest of of its own workers in SUNNYVALE who sat in for 10 hours at
@googlecloud
CEO
@thomasortk
’s personal office, demanding google cut Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel.
arrests were caught on our livestream
We are
@Amazon
and
@Google
workers demanding our bosses end Project Nimbus, a $1 billion contract with the Israeli military and government.
We want our labor to help people — not power human rights violations against Palestinians.
Why our campaign matters, and how you can help:
BREAKING—Today, Alphabet investors voted on one of the first shareholder resolutions in history that name Israeli apartheid & raise investor concerns w/ Project Nimbus,
@google
&
@amazon
’s $1.2 billion cloud contract w/ the Israeli military & gov
#NoTechforApartheid
🧵
BREAKING—
@Google
workers & Bay Area activists holding die-in NOW at Google SF to demand the company stop powering Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Google fuels the first ever AI-powered genocide via its $1B cloud contract w Israel
Take action:
BREAKING—Full statement from the
#NoTechForApartheid
Campaign on Google’s retaliation against and firing of Google Cloud Software Engineer who disrupted the Israeli AI and surveillance MindTheTech Conference
This evening, Google indiscriminately fired 28 workers, including those among us who did not directly participate in yesterday’s historic, bicoastal 10-hour sit-in protests. This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract..
with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers. In the three years that we have been organizing against Project Nimbus, we have yet to hear from a single executive about our concerns. Google workers have the right to peacefully protest about terms
Workers and NYC community will NOT allow business as usual while Google continues to profit off of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Take action & demand
#NoTechForApartheid
➡️
Are you a tech worker? Get involved ➡️
@GOOGLE
WORKER COAST TO COAST SIT IN UPDATE HOUR 3— Workers remain steadfast in their commitment to remain inside
@googlecloud
CEO thomas kurian’s office and google HQ NYC until they drop Project Nimbus or are arrested
SUPPORT WORKERS:
@Google
@ThomasOrTK
BREAKING— ARRESTS OF GOOGLE WORKERS BEGIN IN NYC
WE WILL CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE
@ThomasOrTK
YOU ARE A GENOCIDE PROFITEER
DROP PROJECT NIMBUS NOW
NO TECH FOR GENOCIDE
and conditions of our labor. These firings were clearly retaliatory.
On the contrary, our bosses called the police on its own workers, the Nimbus Nine, who were arrested and taken into custody last night.
Today, they punished all of the workers they could associate with this action in wholesale firings, through a dragnet of in-office surveillance. Google cited “bullying” and “harassment” as the reasons for workers’ firing.
THAT IS WHY
@google
workers will lead URGENT
#NoTechForGen0c1de
rallies in NYC, Seattle, Sunnyvale on April 16 to demand Google to stop profiting from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
UPDATE—
@google
worker sitins in NYC/ Sunnyvale are in their 7th hour. Here are statements from workers still inside RIGHT NOW
@Google
workers will NOT allow business as usual while Google provides tech 4 Israel’s genocide in Gaza
#NoTechForApartheid
#NoTechForGenocide
Google claims that protesters “defaced property” and “physically impeded the work of other Googlers.” This excuse to avoid confronting us and our concerns directly, and attempt to justify its illegal, retaliatory firings, is a lie.
Yet, reporting from TIME Magazine proves otherwise: Google has built custom tools for Israel’s Ministry of “Defense,” and has doubled down on contracting with the Israeli Occupation Forces, since the start of its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Even further, Google has ACTIVELY DEEPENED its partnership with Israeli military during the genocide in Gaza, signing a new $1M agreement as recently as THREE WEEKS AGO.
Even the workers who were participating in a peaceful sit-in and refusing to leave did not damage property or threaten other workers. Instead they received an overwhelmingly positive response and shows of support.
Google continues to lie to its workers, the media, and the public. Google continues to claim, as of today, that Project Nimbus is “not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.”
These mass, illegal firings will not stop us. On the contrary, they only serve as further fuel for the growth of this movement.
Make no mistake, we will continue organizing until the company drops Project Nimbus and stops powering this genocide.
Sundar Pichai and Thomas Kurian are genocide profiteers. We cannot comprehend how these men are able to sleep at night while their tech has enabled 100,000 Palestinians killed, reported missing, or wounded in the last six months of Israel’s genocide — and counting.
The truth is clear: Google is terrified of us. They are terrified of workers coming together and calling for accountability and transparency from our bosses. They are choosing to reveal the falsity of Google’s “open culture” in order to get rid of a threat.
Google claims that the protest involved people who “largely” do not work at the company. This is not just untrue, it’s insulting. Thousands of our colleagues have joined our call for the company to drop Project Nimbus,
@Google
UPDATE—NYC/Sunnyvale
@google
workers enter HOUR 9 of sit-in
workers will NOT leave
@ThomasOrTK
’s office or GOOGLE NYC HQ until nimbus is dropped or they’re arrested
600+ PPL STILL ON SUNNYVALE SITIN LIVESTREAM — JOIN US-
BREAKING—
@Google
has engaged in retaliation against 20+ additional workers, including non-participating bystanders at last week’s historic sit-ins, bringing the total to ***50 workers***that Google has shamefully retaliated against.
TOMORROW 2PM ET—Emergency Press Conference w workers who
@Google
fired &/or arrested for protesting Google’s complicity in genocide
Workers will share testimony of what happened during the historic sitins & urgent developments
Hosted by
@haymarketbooks
supporting the dozens of brave workers who have spoken out publicly about how the contract is impacting their health and safety on the job. Most of all, it is insulting to those of us you just threw out of the company for voicing our concerns about Project Nimbus,
as well as for the well-being of our Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim colleagues facing Google-enabled racism, discrimination, harassment, and censorship.
JOIN US in
New York City
Google Chelsea - 9th Ave & 16th Street Entrance
2 PM EST
Seattle, WA
Lake Union Park
11 AM PST
Sunnyvale, CA
Google Cloud HQ - 1175 Borregas Ave
11 AM PST
@TIME
Eddie Hatfield, a Google Cloud SWE & NOTA organizer, was fired in March after disrupting a Google-sponsored Israeli tech conference. After, Vidana Abdel Khalek, a Trust&Safety Policy Employee at Google, resigned in protest of Nimbus after seeing Google’s retaliation against Eddie
A Google Cloud engineer just interrupted Google Israel managing director Barak Regev at Israeli tech industry conference MindTheTech this morning in NY.
“I refuse to build technology that powers genocide!” he yelled, referring to Google’s Project Nimbus contract
@TIME
@theintercept
reports that this led to 1000s of Palestinians being arrested, imprisoned, & tortured w/ little to no evidence. It’s crystal clear that the IOF will use any technology available to them for genocidal means
HUGE NEWS: After tech workers across the US protested our companies’ contracts with Israel on 9/8, we forced
@google
to admit its tech is used by the Israeli military—which it had denied. This shows the power of collective action & we're just getting started!
#NoTechForApartheid
@TIME
Through Nimbus, Google is aiding & abetting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The IOF is also using Google Photos as part of a facial recognition dragnet across Gaza
BREAKING—Statement from the No Tech For Apartheid campaign on
@theintercept
bombshell investigation confirming that Project Nimbus requires Israeli weapons manufacturers to run on Amazon and Google’s cloud services
@TIME
@theintercept
Instead of dropping Nimbus, Google is punching down on its workers and deepening its partnership with Israel. But workers will not stop organizing to demand their employer stop powering this genocide and stop the harassment & intimidation, of Palestinian, Arab, & Muslim Googlers
@TIME
@theintercept
Join us on April 16! PLEASE wear a mask for public health and to protect each other from state surveillance.
for more.
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#NoTechForApartheid
TOMORROW 2PM ET—Emergency Press Conference w workers who
@Google
fired &/or arrested for protesting Google’s complicity in genocide
Workers will share testimony of what happened during the historic sitins & urgent developments
Hosted by
@haymarketbooks
Due to our sense of responsibility —and our power— as workers, we began pressuring our companies last October with an op-ed in The Guardian.
Then,
@DropNimbus
was 90 Google & 300 Amazon workers. Now, we're nearly 2,000 workers — with 40,000 public supporters — and growing.
From selling weapons to aid the Guatemalan genocide, Pinochet’s human rights abuses in Chile, and the Hutu regime that killed over 800k Tutsis in 100 days – Israel’s technology is used on Palestinians then marketed as battle-tested to oppressive groups around the world. 🧵
Statement from Google workers with the
#NoTechForApartheid
campaign on Google's continued mass retaliation against workers
Last night
@Google
@sundarpichai
@ThomasOrTK
fired 20 more workers, bringing the number of workers fired since last Tues to ***50***
Workers will NOT be intimidated by retaliation or allow business as usual while Google profits off of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Take action & demand
#NoTechForApartheid
➡️
Are you a tech worker? Get involved ➡️
We’re proud that a fellow
@google
worker &
@AlphabetWorkers
leader will present this proposal. As tech workers, we do not want our labor to be used to enable violence against Palestinians or any other communities
Through Project Nimbus, the Israeli military and government can use
@Amazon
and
@Google
's cloud services to:
1) Surveil Palestinians
2) Expand illegal Israeli settlements, forcibly displacing Palestinians
3) Inflict violence against Palestinians under military occupation
Project Nimbus provides
@Google
and
@Amazon
's cloud services to the Israeli military and government, making their oppression of Palestinians even crueler and deadlier.
Our bosses signed the Nimbus contract last May while Israel bombed Gaza for 11 days, killing 250 Palestinians.
As
@Google
and
@Amazon
workers, we can't look the other way as Israel uses the tech we build to deny Palestinians their rights, force Palestinians from their homes, and inflict horrific violence — abuses that prompted war crime investigations by the international criminal court.
ISRAELI IOF USING DEADLY THERMOBARIC BOMBS ON CIVILIANS?
A doctor from Gaza : “These weapons are used for the first time, we have never seen it before, it causes 4th degree burns and we call to stop this war immediately.”
If there is more burn it's incendiary bomb
If it's…
This is the first AI-powered genocide.
Google's "Project Nimbus" is a 1.2 Billion dollar contract that provides powerful AI tools to Israel, making Google directly complicit in this genocide. We won't allow it!
Thursday, December 14, 4:30 PM
SF Google offices at 1 Market St
If you're a tech worker and you want to join us or send us a tip, send us a secure email at dropnimbus
@protonmail
.com.
If you're not a tech worker, follow us here for ways to get involved in our campaign — and stay tuned, because we're just getting started.
Investors & tech workers agree:
@amazon
&
@google
should not be profiting from fueling oppression and violence.
Add your name & join our call to end Project Nimbus here:
#NoTechForApartheid
Google is terrified of us.
@Google
is terrified of workers calling for accountability and transparency from our bosses. These mass, illegal firings will not stop us. They only fuel the organic growth of this movement.
#NimbusNine
#GoogleworkersFired
Google on Wednesday fired 28 workers after dozens of employees participated in sit-ins at the company’s New York and California offices to protest the company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.
We refuse to create tech tools for the Israeli military and government to continue surveilling, segregating, and killing Palestinians—tools that have powered the system of racial domination and brutal military occupation that have led us to this moment of violence.
From 300 in May 2021, to 1700 now — Amazon workers demand the end of the Nimbus contract. This rise in support is due to our labor being used to facilitate Israel’s high-tech genocide furthering over 20k Palestinians killed and thousands still under rubble.
We stand in full solidarity with the Palestinian people as they resist 75 years of occupation and in their fight for life and liberation. We call on all tech workers of conscience to join our demand: No Tech For Apartheid. No Tech For Ethnic Cleansing.”
📣 HUGE news from
@nytimes
: Our coworker and
#NoTechForApartheid
activist Ariel Koren resigned from
@google
, calling out Google’s retaliation against Palestinian, Muslim, and anti-Zionist Jewish Googlers who speak out for Palestinian human rights. 🧵
@Google
Leadership is unjustly retaliating against our coworker and
@DropNimbus
member, Ariel Koren, for speaking up about how Google's Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli military will enable violations of Palestinians' human rights.
“Right now, all of our communities affected by the violence in Palestine and Israel are grieving the lives already lost and living in fear of the suffering and death to come...
.
@sundarpichai
@Google
is selling sophisticated Cloud & AI tools to Israel & IOF via Project Nimbus
Workers will NOT allow business as usual while Google profits off Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Join them to demand
#NoTechForApartheid
➡️
That’s why Proposal
#21
at today’s Alphabet annual investor mtg calls for a risk assessment of
@Google
contracts with militaries & militarized policing agencies, including Project Nimbus, policing agencies like CBP, and more.
We demand our bosses immediately cancel their $1.2 billion contract called ‘Project Nimbus,’ which provides sophisticated technology to the Israeli military & government, supercharging apartheid & occupation–the root causes of the unspeakable violence we’ve seen the last few days
As long as their tech continues to power Israeli apartheid government and military, Amazon and Google are complicit in this devastation, including the recent indiscriminate bombings of residential buildings that have wiped out entire Palestinian families & neighborhoods in Gaza.
TOMORROW 2PM ET—Emergency Press Conference w workers who
@Google
fired &/or arrested for protesting Google’s complicity in genocide
Workers will share testimony of what happened during the historic sitins & urgent developments
Hosted by
@haymarketbooks
As Amazon and Google workers committed to a future where all life is treated as sacred, and where technology is used to uplift communities instead of to power unspeakable violence, our stance remains the same:
Join us this Tuesday, January 9 at 5pm PT/8pm ET for our next
#NoTechForApartheid
mass call to learn about the campaign and connect with other tech workers fighting to end our employers' complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Mass call link:
To
@sundarpichai
@ThomasOrTK
& other execs:
We are not afraid
We won't stop fighting & we won't back down. We won't stop demanding protection for Palestinian, Arab & Muslim workers
We will organize until you drop Nimbus & stop powering Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
@Google
and
@amazon
are fueling this state-sanctioned violence. Through Project Nimbus, they're providing more than $1B dollars worth of tech infrastructure for an apartheid government & military in daily violation of international law. Rest in power, Shireen.
#notechforapartheid
Horrified by the violence of the Israeli military targeting a FUNERAL today? Don't forget that
@amazon
and
@google
are profiting from fueling this violence as we speak. Add your name & join our urgent call to end Project Nimbus here:
SEATTLE // NYC // SUNNYVALE
JOIN
@GOOGLE
WORKERS TOMORROW to demand
@Google
stop powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and drop Project Nimbus NOW
11 AM PT — SUNNYVALE / SEATTLE
2 PM ET — NEW YORK CITY
THAT IS WHY
@google
workers will lead URGENT
#NoTechForGen0c1de
rallies in NYC, Seattle, Sunnyvale on April 16 to demand Google to stop profiting from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Join us on Thur, Sept 8 in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City to demand
@Google
and
@Amazon
drop their contract with the Israeli gov and military that further enables apartheid and oppression of Palestinians. This must end now! Join tech workers to say
#NoTechForApartheid
Workers refuse to stay silent. In response, fired, arrested, and impacted workers will host a press conference today at 2pm ET / 11am PT to share their experiences and answer questions.
Join us today to hear directly from impacted workers:
Founder of
@CircleCI
was removed from the board because he has a moral backbone. This is the case for other workers and students who stand against genocide. Zionists weaponize fear and bribe silence, but we welcome you and others to join us
#NoTechForApartheid
#NoTechForGenocide
.
Palestine is the breeding ground for Israel's world class weapons sold to other dictatorships. This is why the No Tech For Apartheid campaign matters – not just for Palestinians, but for you too. We are all Palestinian.
.
@Google
@sundarpichai
@ThomasOrTK
have not done so much as say Mai's name publicly— ignoring Mai's story while they work with the government who murdered her is beyond shameful.
If they won't say her name, then the people will. Mai Ubeid—you have changed our lives and the world
This
#BlackFriday
, we stand in solidarity w
@amazon
workers striking for dignity & safety for workers & communities harmed by Amazon & its tech! From warehouse workers, to drivers, to engineers: as workers united, we’re unstoppable.
#MakeAmazonPay
🧵
BREAKING NEWS: Workers and citizens in over 35 countries launch a global day of strikes and protests to
#MakeAmazonPay
.
Send them your message of solidarity at
For a year,
@google
silenced & punished workers who were using formal channels to voice concerns about providing tech to the Israeli military. But once we united & went public, we got the company to respond. And we'll use the same approach to get it to end its apartheid contract.
Join us TODAY @ 2pm PST / 5pm EST for BDS 101 for Tech Workers.
We’ll be joined by Dov Baum, the Director of AFSC’s Economic Activism Program and co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation to discuss tech workers role in the BDS campaign! Register at:
500+ Google workers have signed our internal petition opposing retaliation against Ariel and supporting her right to express concerns about the violent consequences of her company's contracts.
Today, sign the petition for the general public at: .
@Google
Leadership is unjustly retaliating against our coworker and
@DropNimbus
member, Ariel Koren, for speaking up about how Google's Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli military will enable violations of Palestinians' human rights.
However delayed & incomplete the details Google shared about its contract with Israel were, the fact that it shared them the SAME DAY workers rallied outside its offices is proof that when we come together, we have power.
And we'll use this power to get Google to
#DropNimbus
.
We, Google & Amazon workers (and thousands of public supporters), refuse to be silent while
@Google
continues to profit off of apartheid AND to force out employees who hold the company accountable. Follow us here & join us in calling on
@Google
&
@amazon
to
#DropNimbus
.
@Google
punished anti-Zionist Jewish worker
@ariel_koko
for demanding the company end its contract with the Israeli military.
It's wrong to silence workers for speaking up for Palestinians.
But Google can make this right by ending its contract now.