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"Google Employees Arrested and Suspended for Protesting Company's Actions"

Nine Google employees were arrested after an eight-hour sit-in protest at the company's offices in New York and California, opposing Google's involvement in a $1.2 billion Israeli government contract for cloud computing services. The workers demanded Google pull out of the Project Nimbus contract, citing concerns about technology being used for military purposes. The protest follows sustained internal opposition to the project, including the firing of a software engineer who publicly protested at an Israeli tech conference. Google maintains that the contract is not related to the Israeli military, but a TIME report revealed the company's provision of cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense.