A Google employee who occupied Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s California office for more than eight hours and demanded that the company stop doing business with Israel was arrested late Tuesday.
Employees broadcast their protest on the “Nortech 4 Apartheid” Twitch livestream. The video showed them being arrested by police after refusing to leave after being given the opportunity to leave voluntarily.
In the stream, a man can be seen approaching the protesters, informing them that he has been placed on administrative leave and asking them to leave.
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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“It’s already late,” said the man. “I wanted to ask for your cooperation, but since you have been placed on administrative leave, I would like to know if you would be willing to volunteer.” [leave] long time no see. Could you do that for us? ”
The employee said she understood when he threatened to call law enforcement. Seconds later, police entered the office and detained everyone before the livestream was interrupted.
The protests were announced in an internal email to employees, which included a list of demands, including that Google cancel its $1.2 billion contract with Israel for Project Nimbus, the Israeli government’s cloud computing project. was included.
The demands also include Google ceasing all “business dealings with Israel’s apartheid government and military,” ceasing “harassment, intimidation, bullying, and silencing” of Palestinian and Muslim employees, and ensuring that workers’ “health and It also includes dealing with “safety crises”. They complained that their labor was being used to “enable genocide.”
Sponsored by Apartheid doesn’t need technologyprotesters say they will remain in office until Google cancels Project Nimbus and complies with other demands.
Anti-Semitism appears to be rampant throughout Google’s workforce. February, Daily Wire report Regarding internal anti-Semitic incidents at Google. These include the words “Kill all Jews” being found written on the wall of an office bathroom, and a Jewish employee assaulting an anti-Israel demonstrator on one of the campuses. This includes receiving or receiving.Daily wire too report A group of employees attempted to hijack an International Women’s Day event to bash Israel.
“By choosing to provide powerful cloud computing and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military, we have continued to enable Israel’s apartheid state in Palestine and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.” the protesters wrote in a letter to Kurian. “Years of being silenced, ignored and lied to by management have convinced us as workers that unless serious action is taken, our concerns will not be heard. And while you’re reading this, we’re sitting in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office until our demands are met.
Protests also occurred at other Google offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle.
