Google has fired 28 employees for their involvement in sit-in protests at its offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, protesting a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military.
of new york post report Google announced it has fired 28 employees for participating in sit-in protests at its offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. The protest, organized by the group No Tech For Aparttheid, was aimed at denying Google’s $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract, in which Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services will provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government and military. It was targeted.
The demonstrations took place on Tuesday, with protesters occupying the 10th floor of Google’s Chelsea office in Manhattan and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s personal office in Sunnyvale. Some protesters wore traditional Arab headscarves and wrote a list of demands on Kurian’s whiteboard. Breitbart News previously reported that several Google employees were arrested after refusing to leave the occupied offices.
BREAKING NEWS: A Google employee was arrested after occupying his boss’s office for more than eight hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel.
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According to a company-wide memo obtained by postGoogle’s vice president of global security, Chris Rakow, called the protesters’ actions “unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made our colleagues feel threatened.” He said the employees “occupied office space, defaced our property, and physically interfered with the work of other Googlers.”
Critics of the company have expressed concern that technology provided through Project Nimbus could be used as a weapon against Palestinians in Gaza. In a statement shared by Jane Chan, a spokesperson for Apartheid Without Technology, the fired staffers described Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian as “genocidal profiteers.” “Thanks to their technology, it was possible for 100,000 Palestinians to be killed, disappeared or disappeared.” Wounded during the last six months of Israeli genocide. ”
Local law enforcement confirmed that four people were arrested for trespassing in New York and five protesters were arrested and released for trespassing in Sunnyvale. It remains unclear whether all nine arrested employees were among those fired.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the firings and said the protests were part of a “year-long campaign by organizations and groups of people who rarely work at Google.” A spokesperson said: “Physically interfering with the work of other employees or preventing access to our facilities is a clear violation of our policies and is completely unacceptable behavior.” he emphasized.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News, covering free speech and online censorship issues.
