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Workers protest Google’s support for Israeli apartheid

Aug 30, 2023, 1:19 PM
News ID: 85215570
Workers protest Google’s support for Israeli apartheid
Google workers, activists protest over Israel military contract

Tehran, IRNA – Google workers and local activists protested the company’s contract with Israel’s military and sought to ratchet up pressure at the company’s annual showcase of its latest products and technology.

Protesters lined up on Tuesday as attendees of the annual Google Cloud Next conference flowed out of the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco for a scheduled 5 p.m. happy hour, having wrapped up speaker sessions and workshops for the day, according to Los Angeles Times

Some 30 protesters, including former Google employees and local community activists, chained themselves together on Howard Street, which runs through the convention center, between two large glass buildings, and overhead on a nearby pedestrian footbridge. Protesters unfurled a large banner reading “Google Project Nimbus fuels Israeli apartheid.”

More than a dozen current Google workers positioned themselves nearby, passing out fliers explaining their objections to Project Nimbus, a $1.2-billion contract that Google and Amazon Web Services entered into with the Israeli government and military.

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