[News] Google’s anti-Palestinian worker repression - #NoTechForApartheid campaign

[Anti-Imperialist News]

MPower Change


Huge news just broke.

*Today, tech worker organizer Ariel Koren, active in our 
#NoTechForApartheid campaign, resigned from Google*. Her resignation 
letter cited Google’s retaliation and the silencing of Palestinian, 
Muslim, Arab, Jewish, and other workers speaking up for Palestinian 
freedom at the company.

*Make noise by sharing this huge moment in the No Tech for Apartheid 
campaign on Twitter 
<https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/63417?t=1&akid=9507%2E4005%2EVBkoQn> 
and on Facebook 
<https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/63427?t=2&akid=9507%2E4005%2EVBkoQn>. *

<https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/63417?t=3&akid=9507%2E4005%2EVBkoQn>

The New York Times spoke to workers like Ariel organizing against a $1 
billion contract with the Israeli military and apartheid government that 
enables surveillance and violence against Palestinians.//

For the first time, Palestinian workers at Google publicly described the 
retaliation they’ve faced: "*Project Nimbus makes me feel like I am 
making my living off my family’s oppression," one of them said.* But if 
they speak out, they face retaliation and threats of termination from 
Google.^1

*Google and Amazon workers are organizing against corporate contracts 
that fuel **Israeli apartheid and state violence, *and our solidarity 
with these workers is a show of power that increases the pressure to cut 
these contracts.

Google is trying to silence workers to protect their business interests, 
but *next week, we’re turning up the pressure in solidarity with tech 
workers by holding direct actions at Google and Amazon offices across 
the country. *

*If you live in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City, RSVP here to 
join a No Tech For Apartheid action next Thursday, September 8th!* 
<https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/63414?t=4&akid=9507%2E4005%2EVBkoQn>

Tech worker organizing pressures Google and Amazon to end their contract 
with the Israeli military and government. Their divestment demands are 
clear: either stop harming Palestinians or face a devastating public 
relations and labor crisis.

As Ariel told the Times: "When Google and other folks retaliate against 
workers, it’s about creating a culture of fear. I think the opposite is 
true in this case — more workers took a stand."

*Amazon and Google want to believe they can get out of this by pushing 
workers out and creating a culture of fear to stifle worker organizing. 
*Let’s make sure they know it’s not going to be that easy to avoid 
accountability.

*Join us at a #NoTechForApartheid Day of Action next week* 
<https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/63414?t=5&akid=9507%2E4005%2EVBkoQn>*, 
*or if you don’t live in any of these key tech hubs, join us by making 
noise on social media 
<https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/63428?t=6&akid=9507%2E4005%2EVBkoQn> today.

Thanks for all you do to further justice.

In solidarity,

Lau, Granate, Linda, and the MPower Change team

Sources:

1. “Google Employee Who Played Key Role in Protest of Contract With 
Israel Quits 
<https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/63415?t=7&akid=9507%2E4005%2EVBkoQn>,” 
/The New York Times/, Aug. 30, 2022.


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