No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel
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Publicado 2024-04-17
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s work with the Israeli government. Organized by the group No Tech for Apartheid, the protesters are demanding Google withdraw from Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli military. “Google execs basically chose to arrest workers for speaking out against the use of our technology to power the first AI-powered genocide,” says Google software engineer Mohammad Khatami, who was arrested in New York. Google worker-organizer Ray Westrick, who was arrested occupying CEO Thomas Kurian’s office, says “more people are willing to organize and risk their jobs in order to take a stand against complicity in genocide.” We also speak with No Tech for Apartheid organizer and former Google worker Gabriel Schubiner, who calls on the tech industry to divest from Google and Amazon services. “Technology workers actually have a lot of power to shift this paradigm and to remove technology from this deep complicity with the Israeli occupation,” Schubiner says.
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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This tech will be used against anyone who speaks out against Israel. Not just Palestinians.
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And today they have all been fired....28
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When Google banned Trump and his supporters, you were fine. Now enjoy your own medicine.
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They were all fired
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Google is another company that needs to be down sized
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I lost one of my YouTube channels talking about this
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It’s not about Palestine or Israel. It’s about the fact that they’re paying you quite handsomely to do what engineers do and not only were you not doing it you were impeding your coworkers from doing theirs as well as making them feel unsafe. It’s amazing how that doesn’t register in their minds.
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The coddled little minds who got fired. Found out the hard way.
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FREEDOM of speech in America, where???
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❤️🇿🇦South Africa 30yrs democracy free from Apartheid, THANK YOU WORLD! ❤❤❤
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Support Israel
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Can we protest being US citizens since our tax money goes to this war as well?
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Leave your politics at the door when you go to work. If you disagree politically with your company's business practices, quit and get a different job.
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Many kids have always wanted to work for Google, now in these days they would reconsider
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We salute your integrity and principled stand
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In the meantime the leaders of Hamas ( Ismail Haniyeh ) are happily enjoying the safe and tranquil rich life in Qatar
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Google is guilty of so much more! Those interested: DR Congo, Africa cobalt mines; where young children have been used brutally to mine for cobalt, for decades. And, not all blame lays with local African government, which can be bought/bribed for 100m or so.
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸 stop the genocide!
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Another sympathy seeker .. just put these people behind bars..
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Go woke, go broke 💔 you made your bed, and now sleep in it!😊
