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<p>Huge news just broke.</p>
<p><b>Today, tech worker organizer Ariel Koren, active
in our #NoTechForApartheid campaign, resigned from
Google</b>. 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.</p>
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<p>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.<i> </i></p>
<p>For the first time, Palestinian workers at Google
publicly described the retaliation they’ve faced: "<b>Project
Nimbus makes me feel like I am making my living
off my family’s oppression," one of them said.</b>
But if they speak out, they face retaliation and
threats of termination from Google.<sup>1</sup></p>
<p><b>Google and Amazon workers are organizing against
corporate contracts that fuel </b><b>Israeli
apartheid and state violence, </b>and our
solidarity with these workers is a show of power
that increases the pressure to cut these contracts.</p>
<p>Google is trying to silence workers to protect
their business interests, but <b>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. </b></p>
<p><a
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rel="noopener" target="_blank"
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Francisco, Seattle, or New York City, RSVP here
to join a No Tech For Apartheid action next
Thursday, September 8th!</b></a></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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."</p>
<p><b>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. </b>Let’s
make sure they know it’s not going to be that easy
to avoid accountability. </p>
<p><a
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#NoTechForApartheid Day of Action next week</b></a><b>,
</b>or if you don’t live in any of these key tech
hubs, join us by <a
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media</a> today.</p>
<p>Thanks for all you do to further justice.</p>
<p>In solidarity,</p>
<p>Lau, Granate, Linda, and the MPower Change team</p>
<p>Sources:</p>
<p>1. “<a
href="https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/63415?t=7&akid=9507%2E4005%2EVBkoQn"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Google
Employee Who Played Key Role in Protest of
Contract With Israel Quits</a>,” <i>The New York
Times</i>, Aug. 30, 2022.</p>
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