BREAKING—500+ @Google workers & Bay Area activists holding die-in RIGHT NOW at Google SF to demand the company stop powering Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
@Google is selling sophisticated Cloud and AI tools to Israel and the IOF through their join cloud contract with @amazon called Project Nimbus. The company and its CEO @sundarpichai are fully complicit in fueling the first ever AI-powered genocide.
Workers and community will NOT allow business as usual while Google continues to profit off of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Take action in solidarity and demand #NoTechForApartheid ➡️ notechforapartheid.com
For 2+ yrs, Google & Amazon workers along with community orgs have organized against the companies’ contracts with the Israeli occupation. Just this year, hundreds of tech workers & community protested at @googlecloud and @amazonwebservices conferences in San Francisco and New York City, respectively, calling for an end to #ProjectNimbus. Last year, tech workers and local activists organized #NoTechForApartheid demonstrations in four different tech hubs in a historic show of unity & solidarity among workers across Big Tech.
#shutitdown4palestine
BDS 101 for Tech Workers
Wednesday, Dec 13 @ 2pm PST / 5pm EST
As the genocide in Gaza continues, Palestine liberation groups are calling for workers and consumers to Boycott / Divest / Sanction. In fact, just a few weeks ago, the official BDS Movement named Google, Amazon, Airbnb, and Booking.com as targets of the non-boycott campaign. What does that mean for tech workers? How does BDS work as a powerful form of solidarity and intervention for those of us in the United States/Europe?
Join us for a discussion with Dov Baum, the Director of AFSC’s Economic Activism Program and the co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation, to learn more about moving the money as a strategy.
Register at: bit.ly/techbds101
Tech workers around the world like @stephpropaganda are heeding the call from Palestinians in Gaza and joining the worldwide strike to demand a permanent #ceasefireNOW in Gaza. We cannot allow the leaders of our governments and companies like @amazon @google to continue to fuel this genocide in Gaza. Tech workers are taking a stand to demand #NoTechForApartheid.
It takes just a minute to send @amazon @google CEOs @ajassy @sundarpichai an email to demand they cut Project Nimbus, the tech companies’ $1.2 BILLION contract with Israel. By providing sophisticated tech and AI capabilities, @google @amazon are powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, with almost 20,000 Palestinians killed in the horrific violence so far.
Take 30 seconds to demand accountability from the execs who signed on the dotted line for this contract and who continue to remain silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Take action at notechforapartheid.con (quick link in our bio!)
For example emails to send to your colleagues to join the strike, visit bit.ly/s4gaza. Until Palestine is free, tech workers will continue to use our voices and labor power to demand #NoTechForApartheid
LONDON, UK: Join Google workers on Wednesday, 13 December at 5pm for a vigil in Mai Ubeid’s honor.
Mai, a software engineer in a startup internship program backed by Google for Startups, was martyred in an Israeli airstrike.
Read more about Mai’s story at bit.ly/remembering-mai
Attend in person by the IFO Bird Cage (between King’s Cross and St Pancreas stations), Battle Bridge Place, London N1C 4BU. We will have an interfaith ceremony with readings from the Quran alongside Jewish liturgy.
If you’re attending in person, please bring pictures, candles, and flowers for the altar if you can.
Thanks for the #NoTechForApartheid shoutout @hdgordonbooks!
It takes just a minute to send @amazon @google CEOs @ajassy @sundarpichai an email to demand they cut Project Nimbus, the tech companies’ $1.2 BILLION contract with Israel. By providing sophisticated tech and AI capabilities, @google @amazon are powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, with almost 20,000 Palestinians killed in the horrific violence so far.
Take 30 seconds to demand accountability from the execs who signed on the dotted line for this contract and who continue to remain silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Take action at notechforapartheid.con (quick link in our bio!)
Until Palestine is free, tech workers won’t stop organizing.
🚨NEW YORK CITY! Tomorrow December 8, join the #NoTechForApartheid contingent at this Friday’s #ShutItDown4Palestine! We’ll have our big banner so you can find us easily. No funds, weapons, or tech for genocide!
‼️We join @palestinianyouthmovement @nycworkers4palestine @wearedissenters @nodutdol & more to take to the streets in the heart of U.S. empire to demand an end to all U.S. funding for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
The ties between tech and wall street run deep — it’s up to tech workers to use their unique positionality to take action whenever possible. JOIN US!
🗓️Friday, Dec 8, 2023
🕒3 pm - Foley Square
🕓4 pm - City Hall
🕔5 pm - Wall St
SEATTLE: Join Google workers with the #NoTechForApartheid campaign this FRIDAY, December 8th at 6pm PST for a vigil in Mai Ubeid’s honor. Mai, a software engineer in a startup internship program backed by Google for Startups, was martyred in an Israeli airstrike. Read more about Mai’s story at bit.ly/remembering-mai.
Join us in in person at Lake Union Park (860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109) in the southwest grove area (by MOHAI) or via livestream here @notechforapartheid on instagram! We will have an ASL interpreter onsite.
Google and @sundarpichai have remained silent on Mai and the 20K+ Palestinians murdered in the genocide that Israel has waged on Gaza. Tech workers at Google and beyond will continue to to honor Mai's memory by building power together and demanding that @google @amazon drop their billion dollar cloud contract with the Israeli occupation forces.
If you’re attending in person, please bring pictures, candles, and flowers for the altar if you can. We recommend that in-person attendees prepare for the weather, as rain attire may be necessary. We also ask in-person attendees to wear a high-quality mask to keep everyone healthy and safe.
Art by @hanuli.sketch
BREAKING—@washingtonpost reports that over 1,700 @amazon tech workers from around the world have joined @amazon worker organizers with the #NoTechForApartheid campaign to escalate against their bosses’ complicity in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. They delivered an internal petition to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy last Friday reiterating their call for Amazon to drop its $1B cloud contract with Israel + stop powering genocide.
The day before, 1000s of @amazon tech workers across 20 Amazon offices globally gathered to observe the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People by sharing Palestinian culture, eating knafeh, and wearing keffiyehs in solidarity with Gaza. Despite anti-Palestinian racism & harassment at a few of the events, Amazon tech workers remain steadfast in their activism for Palestinian liberation & to demilitarize tech.
📣 Demand @Google @Amazon stop powering the genocide in Gaza. Email the execs @ notechforapartheid.com
📞 Are you a tech worker? Get involved by joining the next mass call on Thur Dec 7 at bit.ly/NOTAMassCallDec7
Tech workers are concerned that Amazon & Google tech and AI tools are facilitating Israel's genocide in Gaza & making Israeli apartheid even deadlier. @972mag bombshell investigation exploring how this is the first “AI-powered genocide” shows tech workers’ concerns are valid. Tech workers DO NOT want their labor to power apartheid & genocide.
For 2+ yrs, Google & Amazon workers have organized against Project Nimbus. Just this year, hundreds of tech workers & community protested at @googlecloud and @amazonwebservices conferences in San Francisco and New York City, calling for an end to #ProjectNimbus. Last year, tech workers and local activists organized #NoTechForApartheid demonstrations in four different tech hubs in a historic show of unity & solidarity among workers across Big Tech.
Tech workers—backed by human rights, racial & tech justice orgs—who care about Palestinian liberation will #shutitdown4palestine & demand #NoTechForApartheid until we achieve an end to tech complicity in this genocide and apartheid and achieve total Palestinian liberation.
Join NYC tech workers on Nov 29, 7pm ET at the citywide vigil at Columbus Circle for the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People. We will march with a contingent banner, and please also bring signs, candles, flowers, and wear a keffiyeh.
🚨🔊 UK Tech Workers 🔊🚨
Join us for an informational call and launch of the UK organizing committee for NOTA. UK-based Google and Amazon workers are standing up and calling on their companies to divest from Project Nimbus, a $1.2B contract with Israel that services the IOF. We're calling on all UK tech workers and especially Google and Amazon employees to join us in demanding our companies stop doing business with a nation committing genocide.
Call hosted by Google and Amazon workers in collaboration with NoTechForApartheid (notechforapartheid.com) and UTAW (utaw.tech)
Nov 29, 4pm UK
https://bit.ly/NotaUkCall
Join us TOMORROW, Tueday, Nov 28th at 5pm ET for a vigil in Mai Ubeid’s honor. Mai, a software engineer in a startup internship program backed by Google for Startups, was martyred in an Israeli airstrike. Read more about Mai’s story at bit.ly/remembering-mai
Attend in person at 14th Street Park (W 14th St & 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011) or via livestream at bit.ly/vigil-for-mai-livestream. We will also be livestreaming on this page.
If you’re attending in person, please bring pictures, candles, and flowers for the altar if you can. We also ask in-person attendees to wear a high-quality mask to keep everyone healthy and safe.
Art by @hanuli.sketch
Join us TODAY at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET for two online discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Israeli apartheid, the history of tech workers in both enabling and dismantling apartheid, and what you can do to support Palestinians.
Featuring Marwa Fatafta, Mona Shtaya, Matt Mahmoudi, Caroline Hunter, Ariel Koren, Antony Loewenstein, Timnit Gebru, and Alex Hanna, and hosted by the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and Haymarket Books.
RSVP at link in bio.
BREAKING—@theintercept profiled a #NoTechForApartheid worker organizer singled out by @Google HR for sharing a letter demanding Google stop powering Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Despite multiple organizers sharing the letter internally, he was the only Muslim & Middle Easterner who circulated it & the only one @google HR questioned, asking him whether the letter was “justifying the terrorism on October 7th.”
We condemn the systemic Islamophobia & anti-Palestinian racism running rampant at @google & unequivocally stand with workers courageously demanding #NoTechForApartheid.
By stifling worker dissent, Google is evading accountability for enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A Google spokesperson denied that the contract includes "military workloads," but @theintercept debunks that lie, highlighting that Nimbus training documents, an Israeli Ministry of Finance press release, & Israel's National Digital agency all confirm Project Nimbus' military applications.
This exposé follows last week's open letter by Muslim, Palestinian & Arab Googlers detailing how Google leadership allowed dehumanizing, racist comments against Palestinians on official Google work platforms while managers used their rank to question & report Googlers who express empathy with Palestinians.
@theintercept exposes add'l egregious examples like: "an Israeli Google employee repeatedly asking Middle Eastern colleagues if they support Hamas," "a Google engineer suggesting Palestinians worried about the welfare of their children should simply stop having kids," & another engineer calling Gazans "bloodthirsty animals.”
Google's attempt to silence workers is only strengthening worker resolve to cut Project Nimbus.
TAKE ACTION
Are you a tech worker? Join our next mass call 11/28 to get involved in tech worker-led escalations against Nimbus: bit.ly/NOTAMassCall
Email @google @amazon execs at notechforapartheid.com in solidarity w/ Palestinian & Muslim tech workers to say #NoTechForGenocide (LINK IN BIO)
Join us TOMORROW at 1pm PT / 4pm ET for a virtual teach-in about Big Tech's role in facilitating the military industrial complex. This week, Biden, Xi, and tech CEOs are gathering in the Bay Area to solidify how the US maintains political, economic, and social control over the Indo-Asian region. Big Tech plays an integral role by solidifying its war profiteering. Join this teach in to connect the dots between Big Tech, the current genocide in Gaza, and APEC.
Registration at bit.ly/NOTA-TeachIn (link in bio)
#notechforapartheid
Tech workers do not want their labor to power genocide.
That’s why tech workers across the industry are coming together to demand @Google & @Amazon cancel Project Nimbus, their $1.2B contract with the Israeli occupation & military.
Tech workers: Join us! bit.ly/NOTACallToAction (link in bio)
For 2+ years via the @notechforapartheid campaign, tech workers at Google & Amazon—flanked by tech workers across the industry as well as community activists—have been organizing to demand their companies end their $1B Project Nimbus cloud contract with Israel. Hundreds of tech workers & community took to the streets outside of Google and Amazon offices in 2022 & 2023—even shutting down Google’s biggest Cloud conference of the year this past August.
The message is clear: tech workers won’t power Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
If you are a tech worker, join us at our mass call 11/14 to learn how to plug in! (link in bio!)
#NoTechForApartheid
