The "No Tech for Apartheid" movement is a collective of principled Google and Amazon employees and allied tech workers who are protesting their employers' $1.2 billion "Project Nimbus" contract to provide cloud services and AI capabilities to the Israeli government and military. The movement demands that Google and Amazon terminate their involvement in Project Nimbus to avoid being complicit in Israeli apartheid and the oppression of Palestinians. Inspired by past struggles against apartheid in South Africa, the workers are engaging in protests, sit-ins, and advocacy to hold their employers accountable. Despite facing terminations and arrests for their actions, the protesters remain undeterred, vowing to continue until the contract is dropped. They believe technology should uplift humanity, not facilitate injustice, ethnic cleansing or violence against civilians
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Because being an entrepreneur isn’t challenging enough… Because being an entrepreneur based of out of Palestine doesn’t come with it’s own unique set of additional challenges … We now have US banks issuing notices to shut down bank accounts for our US registered startups because the founders are based in Palestine The US had made it clear, this is their genocide indeed. #Palestine #startups
Google keeps lying and keeps getting caught "Google’s own corporate schedule, reviewed by The Intercept, seems to contradict this statement. The document includes upcoming Google events in Israel, and IT For IDF 2024 is on the list. On this internal schedule, Google is explicitly labeled as a co-sponsor " CC: Thomas Kurian Sundar Pichai https://lnkd.in/g6zkPupF
YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED Please donate to support the 50 fired Google workers who led coast-to-coast sitins to demand Google cut ties with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the internal harassment, racism, and mistreatment of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Googlers. The donations will support urgent living needs and their legal battle against Google, which we believe will help protect all workers’ rights across the US. Support the workers here: https://lnkd.in/gYYYk-K2
The Uncommitted national movement to Kamal Harris: change behavior towards Gaza if you want our votes https://lnkd.in/g2RAWZAX
JUST IN: Wiz, the Israeli cybersecurity startup that Google wanted to buy for $23B walked away from the deal. https://lnkd.in/gzhwBiyi
BREAKING: The International Court of Justice finds that Israel’s settlement policies break international law. It is common sense that does not need a court verdict, but it's good to have it declared formally by a widely recognized court https://lnkd.in/gG5EyDjR
TIMELY OPINION ON THE Anti-Defamation League "The Anti-Defamation League has gotten into the defamation business. Founded in 1913 to combat anti-Jewish bigotry, the ADL was once respected for its civil-rights work. Now, amid nationwide protests over what the U.N. special rapporteur and others have called Israel’s genocide in Gaza, it’s shredding that reputation with reckless and unsupported accusations of antisemitism." https://lnkd.in/gtv4jdpq
NO PALESTINIAN FLAG WAVING IN INDIA. The Modi regime is increasingly aligning itself with Israeli apartheid, suppressing even simple acts of support for Palestine, such as waving a Palestinian flag. Notably, both Israel-supporting regimes and companies display similar behavior: the suppression of free speech. https://lnkd.in/gibkKE8u
JUST PUBLISHED: Even more evidence that Google lied. The Israeli military is at the heart of Project Nimbus, and it is ACTIVELY using Nimbus capabilities against people in Gaza, contrary to all public statements made by Google spokespersons. In addition, Google is pitching Gemini to the Israeli Police; The entity that enforces apartheid and racial segregation in the West Bank https://lnkd.in/gevGHqFp