[News] Google & Amazon workers to protest on Thursday against $1.2 billion deal with the Israeli occupation

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Google & Amazon workers to protest on Thursday against $1.2 billion deal
with the Israeli occupationSeptember 4, 2022
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Jerusalem (QNN) – Hundreds of employees of the American tech giants Google
and Amazon are scheduled to organize three vigils next Thursday outside the
headquarters of the two companies calling for the cancellation of Project
Nimbus, a $1.2 billion deal with Israel that will provide it with cloud
storage services and artificial intelligence tools.

The #NoTechForApartheid movement said vigils are also expected to be held
in the cities of San Francisco, New York and Seattle in an effort to
prevent Israel from using technology in its crimes against the Palestinian
people.

The movement, which was founded last year, has also started a campaign to
sign a petition calling on the management of the two companies to cancel
the deal. The deal, so far been signed by nearly 40,000 American citizens,
calls on the two tech giants to “stop dealing with the Israeli apartheid
regime and withdraw from the Nimbus project.”

The petition affirmed its solidarity with hundreds of Amazon and Google
employees who are courageously calling for withdrawal from the Nimbus
contract.

The petition reads, “As the Israeli military bombed homes, clinics, and
schools in Gaza and threatened to push Palestinian families from their
homes in Jerusalem May 2021, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud
executives signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to
the Israeli government and military. By doing business with Israeli
apartheid, Amazon and Google will make it easier for the Israeli government
to surveil Palestinians and force them off their land.”

“We’re heeding the call from over 1000 Google and Amazon workers to rise up
against the contract, known as Project Nimbus. Technology should be used to
bring people together, not enable apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and
settler-colonialism.”

The movement says in its petition, “Amazon and Google’s collaboration with
Israeli apartheid is part of a larger pattern of Big Tech fuelling state
violence across the globe. Tech companies like Amazon and Google are the
new war profiteers and have dismal human rights records. Amazon helps power
ICE’s deportation-detention machine, and partners with over 2,000 U.S.
police departments to surveil and criminalize Black and brown communities
through its doorbell camera Ring.”

“Technology can bring people together—but when these tools are used to harm
communities, they make the world less safe for us all. That’s why workers
at Google and Amazon are urging their employers to walk their talk on human
rights.”
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