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"Google Employees Arrested and Stage Sit-ins to Protest $1.2B Israel Contract and Project Nimbus"
Google employees, affiliated with No Tech For Apartheid, staged 10-hour sit-ins at offices in New York and Sunnyvale to protest the company’s $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel, resulting in several arrests and administrative leave for the protesters. The employees demand that Google withdraw from the "Project Nimbus" contract, expressing concerns that the technology is being used against Palestinians in Gaza. This protest is part of ongoing employee activism within Google related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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Google employees, part of a group called "No Tech for Apartheid," protested the tech giant's ties to the Israeli government by storming offices in California, New York City, and Seattle. They demanded the cancellation of a $1.2 billion contract with Israel, accusing the government of carrying out a "genocide" in the Gaza Strip. The protest follows a public berating of an Israel-based executive by a Google software engineer, who was subsequently fired. The employees livestreamed the sit-in on Twitch and voiced concerns about the technology being used by Israel's military against Palestinians.
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Google employees are occupying the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in California and protesting the company's $1.2 billion contract with Israel for Project Nimbus, demanding that Google cease all business with the Israeli government and military. The protesters claim they will remain in the office until their demands are met, citing concerns about enabling "apartheid" and "genocide." The protests were announced in internal emails to employees, and the employees are also protesting in New York City. The employees accuse Google leadership of lying about the purpose of Project Nimbus and profiting off of genocide, and are demanding significant action from the company.