SUPPORT SULTANA—@Amazon fired Sultana, an Amazon Labor Union organizer, from her job as a warehouse worker at the JFK8 fulfillment center as retaliation for reporting Amazon management for multiple harassment & labor law violations.
Sultana is not only an ALU caucus leader, she’s also a pillar of the NYC Labor for Palestine community and building worker power for Palestinian liberation.
Support Sultana in staying afloat while she fights for justice from Amazon’s retaliation! Give generously: tinyurl.com/SupportSultana (link in bio!)
A peaceful rally at Google HQ Dublin, to protest Project Nimbus and the complicity of all big tech in apartheid israel and the slaughter of Palestinians.
Excellent representation from all around Ireland, including @ipsc.kildare @irelandpsc @dublin4gaza and a number of employees from big tech companies in Ireland. We stand together in solidarity with Palestinans who are being persecuted daily, and with Google workers who were fired due to their stance.
#notechforapartheid
#notoprojectnimbus
#noazureforapartheid
#oracleforpalestine
#metamates4employees
#apples4ceasefire
NEW—CBS report on our rally and picket where fired and current @Google workers were joined by Bay Area labor organizers, tech workers, student organizers, and community members outside Google SF to demand the company stop powering Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We stand in solidarity with workers and students in Palestine, and we stand in solidarity with workers and students who have faced repression and retaliation in our collective struggle for divestment from Israel and liberation for Palestine!
In April, Google workers escalated by holding coast-to-coast sit-ins, one in Sunnyvale at the office of the Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian to Protest Nimbus, Google and Amazon's $1.2B contract with the Zionist state and IOF. 9 workers were arrested and over 50 were fired. Workers refuse to be silenced by Google's mass retaliation, and we will continue to fight for our retaliated coworkers and demand together that Google stop powering the AI-facilitated genocide in Gaza.
Take action in solidarity and demand #NoTechForApartheid ➡️ notechforapartheid.com
Support the fired Google workers ➡️ notechforapartheid.com/retaliation
Sign the student pledge ➡️ notechforapartheid.com/students
Art by @davidsolnit
NEW—Tech workers with the #NoTechForApartheid Campaign stand in unequivocal support of @eu_ips, students, & workers at the @edinburghuniversity currently demanding the University divest fully from Alphabet (@Google’s parent company) and @Amazon for providing technology and material support to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
The administration is repressing the voices of their students and workers by obscuring their clear and ethical demands, instead proposing further “discussion” without material action. The administration’s delay and minimization tactics clearly aim to absolve the University of responsibility for the direct violence its investments are currently financially and tangibly enabling.
If the University refuses to divest, it is implicitly supporting the repression of workers speaking out for Palestinian liberation, instead siding with military contractors like Google and Amazon that do not and will not respect the rights and voices of future workers. The University has an obligation to use its investments responsibly to help build a world where its students will not have to face a choice between economic precarity and building violent technology at the behest of tech company bosses driven by insatiable greed.
With over 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza murdered, injured, or missing under the rubble of Israel’s bombs, this demand could not be more urgent.
DISCLOSE, DIVEST
WE WILL NOT STOP
WE WILL NOT REST
Follow and support @eu_jps in their fight for divestment!
DMV #NOTECHFORAPARTHEID TEACH-IN—Join us next Tues June 18 at the MLK Jr Memorial Library in Room 401-E from 6:30-8pm for an opportunity to learn about the role that tech companies like @Google & @Amazon play in facilitating the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We’ll dive into some of the different technologies that the Israeli Occupation Forces utilize to wage violence on Palestinians, and how tech companies are the new war profiteers fueling this.
Hear from an ex-Googler on their experience being retaliated against and fired by Google for protesting the company’s complicity at the historic coast to coast Googler sit-ins to demand an end to Project Nimbus last April. Meet organizers with No Tech For Apartheid in the DMV and learn how tech workers can use their power to end these contracts that power the occupation. Space is limited, so please arrive promptly at 6:30!
There will be an online component for folks not in the DMV—link to RSVP is on our bio!
BAY AREA LABOR ALL OUT FOR GAZA! NO TECH FOR APARTHEID!
Fired and current @Google workers, Bay Area labor organizers, student organizers, and community rally & picket outside Google SF to demand the company stop powering Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The Bay Area labor movement stands in solidarity Palestinians in Gaza and the fight for Palestinian liberation!
Palestinian trade unions have called for workers all over the world to stop arming Israel — we as workers must heed this call and end our employers complicity in this genocide. It is with international worker solidarity that we can achieve liberation for ALL oppressed people!
In April, Google workers escalated by holding coast-to-coast sit-ins, one in Sunnyvale at the office of the Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian to Protest Nimbus, Google and Amazon's $1.2B contract with the Zionist state and IOF. 9 workers were arrested and over 50 were fired. Despite attempts to scare us into silence, workers refuse to be silenced by Google's mass retaliation, and today we rally together to support our retaliated coworkers and demand together that Google stop powering the AI-facilitated genocide in Gaza.
GOOGLE WORKERS PICK A SIDE! NO TECH FOR GENOCIDE!
#NoTechForApartheid
Picket signs and art by @davidsolnit
ACTION ALERT— Rally & Picket: Divestment from tech to the university!
📣 Wed. June 12, 5pm @Google’s SF office, 1 Market Street
Next Wednesday, @Google workers will be rallying alongside students and workers across the bay @union.nurses.for.palestine @studentsforgaza_sfsu @stanfordsjp @bayarealabor4palestine @sfsugups & more to keep heeding the call from Palestinian trade unions to stop arming Israel and powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
In April, Google workers staged historic coast-to-coast sit-ins, one at Google NYC and one in Sunnyvale inside Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office to protest Project Nimbus — Google and Amazon’s $1.2B contract with the Zionist state and IOF. 9 Google workers were arrested and 50 were fired. Google workers refuse to be silenced by the company’s mass retaliation, and they will be rallying at Google’s 1 Market St. office in SF to support our retaliated coworkers and demand that Google stop powering the AI-facilitated genocide in Gaza.
Google’s indiscriminate retaliation of its 50 workers is not unique — countless workers - nurses, doctors, teachers, professors, student workers, warehouse workers, and beyond - have faced repression when standing up for Palestine, and we stand in solidarity with them.
Tech workers call for divestment and an end to Project Nimbus is intrinsically connected to students’ call for divestment. As tech workers, our organizing is inspired by the student intifada and labor organizing for Palestine. Our fights are connected: student-talent pipeline is extremely important to big tech, and together we’ll show them that students, like tech workers, will not allow their labor to be used by these corporations to aid the genocidal state of Israel for its oppression and decimation of Palestinians.
This rally aims to strengthen our joint fight — and to continue the call for divestment from Israel: from universities to the tech industry. We won’t stop organizing until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
Pls wear a mask for public health and to protect from state & tech surveillance.
#NoTechForApartheid #DiscloseDivest
illustration and design by @erinpossibly
NEW from our partners at @visualizing_palestine —“When we consider the impact of such [artificial intelligence] systems on human rights, we need to look at the consequences, first, if they malfunction and second, if they work as intended. In both situations, reducing human beings to statistical data points has grave and irreversible consequences for people’s dignity, safety, and lives.”-Artificial Genocidal Intelligence: how Israel is automating human rights abuses and war crimes, by @othermarwa and Daniel Lefeur.
Check out stopkiller.ai to explore how Israel uses artificial intelligence to produce targets for its ongoing genocide in Gaza, and how tech companies are complicit.
Are you a tech worker? Fight back by building power with other workers & join #NoTechForApartheid via the intake form in our bio.
🚨NYC TOMORROW — EMERGENCY ACTION: FLOOD MANHATTAN FOR RAFAH 🚨
ESCALATE FOR RAFAH, JABALIA, GAZA, JENIN AND ALL OF PALESTINE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
📍Zuccotti Park
🗓️ MONDAY, May 27th
⏱️ 2PM
📱FOR UPDATES/INFO:
Telegram: t.me/wolprotest
NEW—@washingtonpost reported on the NLRB complaint filed by 50 fired @Google workers in response to Google's indiscriminate retaliation against workers who took part in April’s historic coast-to-coast sit-ins demanding the tech giant stop powering the g3n0cid3 of Palestinians in Gaza and cut its $1B cloud contract w Israel.
Google’s mass retaliation last month was an example of g3n0c1d3-profiteering executives sending a clear message: Any worker who dissents against the company’s complicity in g3n0c1d3 or the harassment of their Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim coworkers will be silenced and punished. All while Google continues to lie to the press and the public about the military nature of Project Nimbus. @TIME recently confirmed that Google lied to its own workers, consumers & the press for years, is providing direct cloud/AI services to the IOF, and ACTIVELY DEEPENED its partnership with Israeli military during the genocide, signing a new $1M agreement as recently as March 2024.
But workers — both fired and current — will NOT allow business as usual while Google continues to profit from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and will continue to organize until the contract is dropped.
Join us ➡️ t.ly/NotaGeneralIntake.
Demand the execs drop Project Nimbus ➡️ notechforapartheid.com
Demand @Google stop retaliating against workers speaking out for Palestine and reinstate the fired 50. SIGN NOW ➡️ notechforapartheid.com/retaliation
Recent op-ed in @thenewarab by #NoTechForApartheid organizer and former Google worker Mohammad Khatami — who was arrested at the @google worker sit-ins while demanding that Google stop powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and drop Project Nimbus.
Google has engaged in a shameful act of mass retaliation against its workers in order to send a message: Any worker who dissents against the company’s complicity in genocide will be silenced and punished. All while Google continues to lie to the press and the public about the military nature of Project Nimbus, their $1B cloud computing contract with Israel. @TIME recently 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 last month.
Workers will NOT allow business as usual while Google continues to profit from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
"Workers play a critical role in the growing movement for liberation, and we will not forget Google’s complicity.
Justice will prevail."
Join us ➡️ t.ly/NotaGeneralIntake.
Demand the execs drop Project Nimbus. Email them with one click ➡️ notechforapartheid.com
Demand @Google stop retaliating against workers speaking out for Palestine and reinstate the fired 50. SIGN NOW ➡️ notechforapartheid.com/retaliation
🇵🇸NYC NAKBA DAY: ALL OUT FOR GAZA. From the encampments to the streets! 🇵🇸
Today marks the 76th year of the Nakba. As the g3n0c1d3 in Gaza rages on and Palestinians continue to be slaughtered, today serves as a grounding reminder: we won’t stop organizing until Palestine is free from the river to the sea.
Queens: TODAY Wednesday 5/15, 5PM. Steinway/Astoria Blvd
Brooklyn: Saturday 5/18, 2PM, Bayridge Ave/5th ave
FOR UPDATES/INFO:
Telegram: t.me/wolprotest
AMAZON SHAREHOLDER CALL TO ACTION: Vote FOR Item 6 shareholder proposal
Demand a third party investigation on whether Israel’s use of Amazon Web Services via Project Nimbus contributes to Palestinian human rights violations by enabling apartheid and genocide or violates international humanitarian law
The annual Amazon shareholder vote is now live. Shareholders have until May 21 to vote on ITEM 6 — SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL REQUESTING A REPORT ON CUSTOMER DUE DILIGENCE
If in favor, you are voting FOR Amazon to hire a third party assessment of the company’s customer due diligence process to determine whether customers’ use of its products (from cloud storage capabilities to surveillance) contributes to human rights violations or violates international humanitarian law.
This includes investigating how AWS might be used by Israel via Project Nimbus to power human rights violations in Palestine and the genocide in Gaza.
If you can’t locate the email you received with the link to vote, follow these instructions:
1. Go to https://www.proxyvote.com
2. Log in with your control number or account, OR create an account using the email address associated with the brokerage holding Amazon shares
3. Scroll on the “My Meetings” tab until you find the “AMAZON.COM, INC. - 2024 Annual Meeting”
4. Click the button “Vote”
5. Vote FOR item number 6
6. Scroll to bottom and click “Submit Vote”
ICYMI MAY DAY RECAP—Zelda, a now ex-@Google worker & #NoTechForApartheid organizer who was arrested and fired by Google for staging sit-ins along with other Google workers last month, speaks at @nycpym’s May Day protest for Palestine.
Workers led historic coast-to-coast sit-ins last month to demand that Google stop powering the g3n0c1d3 of Palestinians in Gaza and drop Project Nimbus now.
@TIME recently 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 last month.
Workers will NOT allow business as usual while Google continues to profit from the g3n0c1d3 of Palestinians in Gaza.
Are you a tech worker? Join NOTA ➡️ t.ly/NotaGeneralIntake
Demand @Google and @Amazon Drop Project Nimbus ➡️ notechforapartheid.com
Demand @Google stop retaliating against workers speaking out for Palestine and reinstate the fired 50 ➡️ notechforapartheid.com/retaliation
All links in bio!
DIVESTMENT NOW—@google workers who were arrested and for staging April 16th’s historic, coast-to-coast sit-ins did a #NoTechForApartheid teach-in at the @ucbdivest encampment last week to discuss our collective struggle towards divestment from Israel and towards liberation for Palestine! Members of the Nimbus Nine and other workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign join students to share talk about our shared struggle and the demand Google and the tech industry’s end their complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
