#NoTechForApartheid Campaign on Instagram: "BREAKING—DOZENS OF @GOOGLE WORKERS WITH THE #NOTECHFORAPARTHEID CAMPAIGN TAKE OVER & START SIT-IN INSIDE GOOGLE CLOUD CEO THOMAS KURIAN’S OFFICE AT @GOOGLECLOUD’s HQ IN SUNNYVALE; They refuse to leave until @google drops Project Nimbus and stops powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Simultaneously , NYC Google workers have taken over the 10th floor commons of @Google’s NYC HQ in a historic coast-to-coast sit-in and the first of its kind in tech, to demand No Tech For Genocide. BAY AREA & NYC: Join us NOW outside Google NYC (9th Ave & 16th Street Entrance) & Google Cloud HQ (Google MP Campus - 1175 Borregas Ave) TODAY to support the workers inside; rally programs start at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET @Google CEO @sundarpichai & @GoogleCloud CEO Thomas Kurian are genocide profiteers— @google is actively aiding & abetting the genocide in Gaza, which has led to over 100,000 Palestinians killed, reported missing, or wounded, according to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. FULL GOOGLE WORKER DEMANDS: notechforaprtheid.com/dayofaction SUNNYVALE LIVESTREAM: twitch.tv/notech4apartheid These courageous workers are putting their bodies & jobs on the line inside their own employers’ buildings because of their unwavering commitment to Palestinian liberation. Just last week @TIME confirmed that Google lied to its own workers, consumers & the press for years, is providing direct cloud/AI services to the IOF, and has ACTIVELY DEEPENED its partnership with Israeli military during the genocide in Gaza, signing a new $1M agreement as recently as ONE MONTH AGO. GOOGLE WORKER TESTIMONIALS: notechforapartheid.com/testimonials Last week TIME reported that 2 more Googlers resigned from the company because of Nimbus. Eddie Hatfield, a Google Cloud engineer & NOTA activist, was fired in March after their disruption of a Google-sponsored Israeli tech conference. Shortly after, 2 more workers resigned in protest of the contract after seeing Google’s clear-cut retaliation. Worker will NOT allow business as usual while Google continues to profit from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. join NOTA ➡️ t.ly/NotaGeneralIntake. Demand #notechforapartheid: notechforapartheid.com"
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They're still in Kurian's office, still streaming, and starting to get major media coverage: WaPo Wired

In my opinion this is one of the most important labor developments in the US in a while. Internationally politicized worker organization in the belly of the beast by traditionally un-unionizable PMCs.

e: finally arrested after 10 hours