#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

  • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Mhm. I'm not sure what the Alphabet union's line was, but they don't seem to have gotten very far. A lot of this is bootstrapping - can't make real material gains until you have enough workers on board, can't get enough workers on board without real material gains. So I'm sympathetic to the arguments for unit level organization.