CALL TO ACTION - Bay Area community members, support Stanford students as they walk out on their commencement speaker Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and a genocide, war, and ICE profiteer. Join them at the parallel People’s Commencement featuring a commencement speech by activist and scholar Mahmoud Khalil!
In the past year, Google’s AI has empowered the IOF to process drone footage of the Gaza genocide — actively powering mass death. YouTube is profiting from Israeli government ads that whitewashes the starvation blockade of Gaza. Google fuels DHS and ICE’s brutal raids and CBP’s state terror across the U.S. Most recently, DeepMind just greenlit a no‑red‑lines Pentagon contract, betraying its own researchers’ pleas to stop arming war.
Stanford students are organizing a walk-out and parallel ceremony to protest Sundar Pichai’s direct complicity in these impacts of Google’s technology and contracts. As community members, let us join them in support at their People’s Commencement, featuring Mahmoud Khalil, the activist, scholar, and Columbia’s 2024 encampment negotiator, who was illegally detained by ICE in 2025 and an ongoing target of the Trump administration.
To attend the People’s Commencement, head to the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino at 11:30 AM, whether you are walking out with the students, or coming just for the parallel event. It is open invite and open seating. See you there!!
NEW- @fortunemag reports that Norges Bank (NBIM), a major institutional investor of @google parent company Alphabet and manager of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, voted in favor of a shareholder resolution calling for increased transparency into “the risks posed by government use of Google’s Cloud and AI technology.”
The resolution has already been backed by an investor coalition of 42 organizations and 14 individuals, holding over $2.2 billion dollars in Alphabet shares. In their supporting vote, NBIM stated that @google’s board should account for “environmental and social consequences of its operations and products” and called for “reasonable disclosure.”
Despite years of pursuing military and surveillance development, Google once upheld a facade of goodwill through AI principles which claimed to prohibit the development of weapons. The mask came off in 2025: a month into Trump’s presidency, these AI principles banning technology for weaponry quietly disappeared. Investors cite the loss of these principles as well as Project Nimbus, @google and @amazon’s $1.2B contract to supply AI and cloud technology to the Israeli government and military, as a source of growing concern on the use of Google products.
This coalition of support connects the immense financial power of investors and shareholders to the organizing efforts of workers with #NoTechForApartheid as we tirelessly demand for an end to the use of our labor in powering genocide, surveillance, and violence. @google may attempt to ignore their own workers, users, and now even investors, but the pressure is mounting. We will only continue to build our worker power as we fight for an end to Google’s participation in the war machine.
Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
confronted Blaise Agüera y Arcas, the CTO of Technology & Society at Google before his Tech Talk at Google Zurich on May 21st, 2026. We asked him directly about Project Nimbus and providing AI for mass human rights violations in Gaza. He refused to provide any answers.
Project Nimbus is the $1.2 Billion dollar contract Google and Amazon signed with Israeli government and military providing Cloud and AI technology services. Project Nimbus is the digital backbone of the Zionist settler colonial project and ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Google and Google execs will be held accountable for their complicity in war crimes. They shall not be allowed to present themselves as doing “AI for Good” while profiting from mass human rights violations!! #notechforapartheid #aiforgood
NEW- investors of @google parent company Alphabet call for safeguards surrounding uses of its AI and cloud technology, per @reuters.
Following Google’s refusal to disclose details on contracts with government entities, a group of shareholders representing 42 organizations and 14 individuals drafted a letter demanding greater transparency on how @google cloud services is used by governments to advance surveillance.
These demands come after Google’s relentless pursuit of military and defense contracts, including cloud infrastructure to create round the clock surveillance at the U.S. Mexico border for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the use of Gemini AI tools in classified defense work for the U.S. Pentagon, and Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion joint contract to provide cloud computing and AI technology to the Israeli government and military as they commit genocide in Gaza.
Concerned shareholders join the voices of thousands of tech workers who demand that their labor not be used in mass surveillance, state violence, and crimes against humanity. @google continues to ignore our calls, prioritizing blood money over moral code, but workers won’t be silent: join us as we organize to end this war machine.
Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
BREAKING—UK Google DeepMind workers with @utaw_uk have formally requested union recognition from management — backed by a 98% vote in favor. They’re seeking to become the first frontier AI lab workforce in the world to unionize.
Their demands are not centered around pay and conditions: DeepMind UK workers want an end to Google AI being used by Israel and the US military, restoration of the company’s scrapped commitment not to build AI weapons or surveillance tools, an independent ethics oversight body, and the right to refuse projects on moral grounds.
U.S. Google workers with No Tech for Apartheid stand in unwavering solidarity with our coworkers at Google DeepMind UK who are unionizing on the basis of ethics and over the impacts of their labor — and who specifically cite refusal for their labor to continue powering Google’s role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the company’s increasing military contracts as the driving force behind their unionization bid.
Just last month, Google signed a deal with Trump’s Pentagon to allow its Gemini AI models to be applied in any and all classified military operations — despite overwhelming dissent from Google workers. This decision represents Google’s deepening commitment to profiting from surveillance, violence, and war–all without transparency or accountability, even to its own workers.
That’s what makes Google DeepMind workers with @utaw_uk’s union recognition a historic moment in tech worker organizing history. At a moment when AI capabilities are advancing faster than accountability, workers at the frontier are asking a vital question: who decides how this technology gets used and how do we keep its power in check? They want ethics built in, not bolted on.
And they’re prepared to strike to make it happen.
Follow and support Google DeepMind workers with @utaw_uk !
BREAKING—Over 650 Google workers, mostly working in Google DeepMind & Google Cloud, sent an emergency joint letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai this morning demanding the company reject the Pentagon’s deal to deploy Google AI tech in classified military operations. Over 20 directors, senior directors and vice presidents signed the letter. The letter warns that this contract would mark a dangerous turn in the relationship between the Google and the Pentagon–one that raises unacceptable & unprecedented risk of harm.
“Classified workloads are by definition opaque,” said a Google DeepMind worker. “Right now, there’s no way to ensure that our tools wouldn‘t be leveraged to cause terrible harms or erode civil liberties [..] We’re talking about things like targeting civilians.”
Google already holds a contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD) on non-classified workloads, through a program known as genAI.mil. The proposed new deal would expand these capabilities, including the use of Gemini, Google’s flagship AI model into classified domains. While Google has allegedly proposed contractual language to prevent use of its systems for autonomous lethal weapons and domestic mass surveillance, enforcing these provisions in practice is technically unfeasible, workers argue.
Continued worker pushback comes at the heels of almost 1,600 Google workers demanding the company cut ties with ICE/CBP as reports emerge related to Google tech being used as part of ICE raids. Commercial Google AI models were also implicated in recent US military operations, including the raid targeting Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and in military attacks on Iran.
“I joined Google DeepMind because I believed in the mission of advancing science to benefit humanity” said Sofia Liguori, a research engineer at Google DeepMind. “It is deeply disheartening to see those efforts redirected towards accelerating warfare everywhere, from Gaza to Iran.”
Are you a FTE Google worker? You can still sign the letter at go/benefit-humanity
Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers and organize around anti-militarism? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
NEW- @theinformation reports on @google and the U.S. Pentagon’s talks to deploy Google’s Gemini for classified defense work. Despite increasing concerns from workers on the use of the technology we develop in violence and warfare, Google continues to embed itself into the war machinery of the United States. This latest move seeks to expand Gemini’s work into “classified settings”—a term that, in practice, means bomb target selection and illegal kidnappings of the presidents of other nations.
While Google claims to include red lines in their negotiations, a similar contract the Pentagon has signed with OpenAI provides a path for “all lawful use cases,” circumventing restrictions. For years, Google has taken steps to embed itself into the operations of the U.S. military despite AI principles it had developed in 2018 to prevent such work. From the article:
“But only weeks after Donald Trump began his second presidential term in early 2025, the company seemed to have a change of heart. It altered those principles, removing the explicit provisions against using AI for weapons and surveillance. […] In July, the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office awarded Google a contract worth up to $200 million for an AI pilot program—a contract later amended to allow for all lawful uses. […] In December, Google’s Gemini was the first AI model added to GenAI.mil, the military’s AI platform for unclassified data. […] Google is also one of more than 1,000 companies awarded a contract for Golden Dome, Trump’s planned missile defense system.”
In February, worker organizations representing +700,000 tech sector employees published a joint statement, calling on their companies to reject the Pentagon’s demands.
“We invite workers to join us in organizing to ensure our leadership does not use our labor for mass surveillance, weaponry, and war.”
READ THE FULL STATEMENT: medium.com/@notechforapartheid/jointstatement (LINK IN BIO)
Are you a Google worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
📣 BI-WEEKLY: NOTA Berlin Open Gatherings, starting 22.04.2026 📣
We are starting our bi-weekly series of open gatherings for NOTA Berlin! Join us to shape a movement to confront the militarization of technology. Bring ideas, experiences, thoughts and questions. Invite your co-workers and fellow students.
📆 22nd April 2026 at 7PM
Every second Wednesday
Next Dates:
6th May 2026
20th May 2026
📍Cafe Karanfil
Weisestr. 3
12049 Berlin
👾 Open to Tech Workers, Students, Technologists and Public Society
❗NOTE: At CableResist we shared 20th of April as the date of our first meeting, please note that this is moved to Wednesday.
FULL LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENT——Tune in to the Techlash!! Two years ago, Google retaliated against and fired 50 of its workers who protested Google’s contract with the Israeli military and internal cultural of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian discrimination. This Saturday, April 18th, the #Fired50 Google workers are hosting TechLash: Fight Back Against Big Tech — a 9-hour livestream marking two years since Google workers staged coast-to-coast sit-ins to demand accountability from one of the world’s most powerful companies. TechLash features interviews with tech workers & activists organizing against military contracts, surveillance, and the tech oligarchy (swip for full line up!) — and it’s a fundraiser for the legal case the Fired50 are pursuing against Google. It’s also a day of action: the Fired50 will encourage all participants to flood big tech’s social media accounts with the questions they’d rather not answer and demands for accountability.
RSVP: fired50.org/techlash (LINK IN BIO)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been responsible for over 300 deaths in the last decade, including at least 6 people shot and killed by a CBP officer or officer under CBP leadership in Trump’s second presidential term, and dozens more killed in detention from neglect, abuse, and direct violence. At least 78 of those killed have been children.
CBP’s execution of violence against undocumented and documented immigrations as well as U.S. citizens is enabled by a vast system of surveillance and detention, and @google plays an active role in this machinery. In 2025, Google announced a project with CBP to “upgrade the so-called virtual border wall,” outfitting border towers previously built by infamous Israeli military contractor Elbit with Google’s AI capabilities. This builds upon Google’s long-time pursuit of military contracts, the likes of which include Project Nimbus, Google and @amazon ‘s $1.2B contract to provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli state and military.
As workers with #NoTechForApartheid, we object to the technology we develop being used to power state violence and murder, whether that be to enable Israel’s apartheid regime or uphold CBP’s murderous surveillance and detention system. We demand that Google disclose all ties, declare red lines, and discontinue work with these institutions of systemic violence.
Are you a Google worker who doesn’t want your labor to power CBP? Add your name alongside 1,500 of your coworkers on the #GooglersAgainstICE petition: googlers-against-ice.com (LINK IN BIO)
Are you a Google or Amazon worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)
#NoTechForICE #NoTechForCBP
To hear the stories of those whose lives have been stolen by CBP, please visit https://www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_border_patrol
JOIN THE TECHLASH—Two years ago, Google retaliated against and fired 50 of its workers who protested Google’s contract with the Israeli military and internal cultural of anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian discrimination. This Saturday, April 18th, the #Fired50 Google workers are hosting TechLash: Fight Back Against Big Tech — a 9-hour livestream marking two years since Google workers staged coast-to-coast sit-ins to demand accountability from one of the world’s most powerful companies. TechLash features interviews with tech workers organizing against military contracts, surveillance, and the tech oligarchy — and it’s a fundraiser for the legal case the Fired50 are pursuing against Google. It’s also a day of action: the Fired50 will encourage all participants to flood big tech’s social media accounts with the questions they’d rather not answer and demands for accountability.
RSVP: fired50.org/techlash
NEW— @washingtonpost reports that Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is being used to provide real-time targeting and target prioritization for war crimes against the people of Iran. The U.S. military, with the use of Claude, struck “1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran.”
Claude’s AI functionality is paired with the military’s Maven Smart System, a technology built by Palantir to “generat[e] insights from an astonishing amount of classified data from satellites, surveillance, and other intelligence.” Back in 2018, the Maven Project for the U.S. Pentagon included @google as a contractor, who had agreed to supply AI technology to analyze military drone footage. It was the organizing and mobilizing power of thousands of employees across the company which led to Google letting the contract expire without renewal.
The news of Claude’s use comes after a government wide ban on Anthropic’s tools by the Trump Administration following Anthropic’s refusal to meet the Pentagon’s demands on two red lines: mass domestic surveillance, and fully autonomous weapons. Prior to its use in the assault of the Iranian people, it was reported that Claude had been used in the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela.
On February 27th, worker organization and unions representing workers across @google, @microsoft, and @amazon released a statement calling for their own tech companies to reject the Pentagon’s demands for total access to AI tools. Claude’s use in target selection and war crimes against the people of Iran proves what we have already known: handing over AI to War Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon will accelerate crimes against humanity. From our statement:
“Our employers are already complicit in providing their technologies to power mass atrocities and war crimes; capitulating to the Pentagon’s intimidation will only further implicate our labor in violence and repression.
We invite workers to join us in organizing to ensure our leadership does not use our labor for mass surveillance, weaponry, and war.”
Are you a Google or Amazon worker ready to build a better world with your coworkers? Join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
@google workers with #NoTechforApartheid are organizing against Google’s partnerships with ICE and CBP. On February 12, 2026, Brian Merchant of Blood in the Machine wrote about Google’s efforts to make it harder and riskier for its workers to protest its policies and unethical business practices.
The article details how No Tech for Apartheid organized a petition to force Google to cut its ties with ICE. Nearly 1,500 Google employees have answered the call and signed the petition to demand that Google do the following:
1) Acknowledge the danger that workers face each day at the hands of ICE
2) Hold a town hall to discuss contracts with ICE, CBP, and DHS
3) Enact policy to protect vulnerable Googlers, including contract and data center workers
4) Disclose all ties with and declare red lines
Google leadership has failed to even acknowledge the petition. Instead, they continue to censor workers who speak out against Google’s support of ICE on internal worker platforms, going as far as threatening to ban employees from the internal forums.
In 2025, Google announced its new project with CBP to “upgrade the so-called virtual border wall,” by outfitting border towers previously built by infamous Israeli military contractor Elbit with Google’s AI capabilities. This builds upon Google’s long-time pursuit of military contracts, the likes of which include Project Nimbus, Google and @amazon ‘s 1.2B$ contract to provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli state and military.
The technology that powers ICE and CBP is the same technology that powers Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its brutal apartheid system. As workers at No Tech For Apartheid, we object to our labor and the technology we build being used to power state violence around the globe, whether that be to enable the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime or ICE raids and deportation in the U.S.
Are you a Google worker who doesn’t want your labor to power ICE? Add your name to the #GooglersAgainstICE petition: googlers-against-ice.com
And join #NoTechForApartheid: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
#NoTechForIce
BREAKING—Worker organizations & unions representing over 700,000 workers demand: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft must reject the Pentagon’s demands.
“We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology.
This is our first statement together.
We are speaking out today because the Pentagon is demanding that Anthropic abandon two major safety guardrails for Claude, which is the only frontier AI model currently deployed in classified Department of War operations. This intimidation is an ultimatum: AI companies can either agree to the Pentagon’s terms, or be designated a “supply chain risk,” or forced to provide the technology through the Defense Production Act.
As of Thursday afternoon, Anthropic issued a statement saying it will reject the Pentagon’s demands and uphold these guardrails. How the Pentagon reacts remains to be seen, but we know they will rapidly seek to onboard other models without these guardrails in place, regardless of whether they try to force Anthropic to comply.
If any tech company caves to the Pentagon’s demands, War Secretary Pete Hegseth will have won the ability to surveil our communities — here and abroad –en masse, at an unprecedented level. He will have the power to build and deploy A.I.-powered drones that kill people without the approval of any human. Our employers are already complicit in providing their technologies to power mass atrocities and war crimes; capitulating to the Pentagon’s intimidation will only further implicate our labor in violence and repression.
As workers who make these companies run, we demand:
Executive leadership at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon must reject the Pentagon’s advances and provide workers with transparency about contracts with other repressive state agencies including DHS, CBP, and ICE.
We invite workers to join us in organizing to ensure our leadership does not use our labor for mass surveillance, weaponry, and war.”
READ THE FULL STATEMENT: medium.com/@notechforapartheid/jointstatement- (LINK IN BIO)
GOOGLERS AGAINST ICE HITS 1,300 SIGNATURES
Since we launched our Googlers Against ICE petition opposing Google’s contracts and partnerships with DHS/CBP/ICE a little under 2 weeks ago, over 1,350 of our co-workers have added their names to join us in our demands. This powerful and growing response from Google workers represents widespread anger with leadership’s collusion with Trump & ICE’s horrific detention-deportation machine.
We started No Tech for Apartheid as a campaign against Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s joint $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli military and government. We’re now taking on Google’s collusion with ICE/CBP not only because it’s the right thing to do but because we believe organizing that materially recognizes the interconnectedness of our fights only makes our movements stronger.
Through Nimbus, Google provides air-gapped cloud services to Israel — these technologies that workers built have powered Israel’s apartheid state and its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza over the last 2+ years. Now, Google has sold this same palette of technologies to DHS to power its violent assault on immigrants and our cities at large.
We believe that no matter where Google technology is being deployed for militarism and state violence, we have a responsibility, as workers, to resist it. Across Israel’s genocidal apartheid system in Palestine and ICE raids in the U.S., Google tech is a throughline connecting our fights against oppression. That’s why we must exercise our power as workers and collectively resist inhumane use of this technology––the tech we labored to create.
That’s why we’re coming together as Google workers to demand an end to this disgraceful use of our labor.
Are you a Google worker who doesn’t want your labor to power ICE’s violence? Add your name at googlers-against-ice.com
If you’re a Google or Amazon worker, join us as we build labor power against technology fueling militarism and state violence—from the U.S. to Palestine: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
