28 different people protesting the contract with the Israeli army Google As far as we learned today, the employee was fired.
If you missed it, there were a lot of Google employee talks about the company’s $1.2 billion Project Nimbus with the Israeli government to protest the cloud deal new York And sunnyvale closed its offices. The employees held a sit-in protest in the offices with banners in their hands, demanding that the contract be canceled and aid to the Israeli army be cut off. As far as we learned last night, nine Google employees participated in this protest., was arrested by the police because he continued to occupy office areas despite all warnings and obstructed other people. It was reported that these nine people sat in the personal office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian for 10 hours, and the moment of their arrest is revealed in the video below. As far as we learned today, 28 people who participated in the protests were identified and their employment was terminated. Making a statement within the company on this subject, Google’s head of global security, Chris Rackow, said, “This type of behavior has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.” said. Google This issue has also been on the agenda in recent months. The company carries out work for the Israeli army, which is busy with the occupation of Palestine and also with Iran. fired an employee who protested, which you can see in the video at the bottom of the page. A man stood up during a presentation by an executive from Google’s Israeli side. Google Cloud engineer, “I refuse to develop technology that powers genocide or surveillance” he shouted.
BREAKING— @Google also orders for arrest of its own workers in SUNNYVALE who sat in for 10 hours at @googlecloud CEO @thomasortk‘s personal office, demanding google cut Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel.
arrests were caught on our livestream pic.twitter.com/pgLe4gkybY
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Making a statement on this issue, Google spokesperson Bailey Tomson said, “Regardless of the issue, this behavior is not right and our employee was terminated for violating our policies.” he said. According to reports, the fired engineer was at the event Israel of your government Google and also signed by Amazon for access to cloud services He protested Project Nimbus. Project NimbusIt will mediate increased surveillance of Palestinians and the collection of more unlawful data about them.” has been frequently protested before by both employees and people outside the company.
BREAKING—PRO-PALESTINE @googlecloud ENGINEER DISRUPTS @Google ISRAEL DIRECTOR AT GOOGLE-SPONSORED ISRAELI TECH CONFERENCE IN NYC.
The worker that demanded Google STOP using worker labor to power genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. #NoTechForApartheid pic.twitter.com/t2mqCqFFay
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