On April 16, Google employees were leading a national day of action to demand its labor to drop support of Israeli apartheid and stop its complicity in Gaza genocide.
‘No Tech For Genocide’ campaign was kicked off by dozens of Google employees who took over Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office at the Google headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, yesterday to call on the company to drop Project Nimbus, a cloud computing project of the Israeli occupation army.
Several Google employees in California and New York have been arrested by police after staging a sit-in in front of their boss’s office for more than 8 hours to demand that the tech giant sever ties with the Israeli occupation.
The workers say the Google-Israel relationship is aiding the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people through $1.2 billion contract with ‘Israel’.
Google employees protest company’s ties with the Israeli government by entering two of the tech giant’s offices, one in Sunnyvale, California, and the other in New York City.
At the California location, protesters have vowed to remain until Google terminates its $1.2 billion contract that allows Israeli military to make further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians. Moreover, it facilitates expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements on Palestinian land. The Israeli military has been using Google Photos as part of a facial recognition dragnet across Gaza during the war.
Google and Amazon employees issued a statement upon Gaza war rejecting their company’s complicity in Gaza Genocide, saying “Amazon and Google’s collaboration with Israeli apartheid is part of a larger pattern of Big Tech fueling state violence across the globe. Tech companies like Amazon and Google are the new war profiteers and have dismal human rights records.”
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