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Sep 8, 2022, 19 tweets

BREAKING—@amazon @Google workers are about to kick off direct actions at their offices in Seattle, SF, NYC & Durham right now, escalating the pressure on the companies to end their $1B contract w/ Israel

Running thread of #NoTechForApartheid action coverage & updates here ⬇️

First things first: take action from home!

Stand with Palestinians & support these workers by emailing their CEOs w/ one click at NoTechForApartheid.com

If you're a tech worker yourself who wants to get involved in #NoTechForApartheid organizing, go to bit.ly/workersagainst…

Across the nation today, community members are coming out in huge numbers to support @amazon + @Google workers pressuring their companies to end Project Nimbus + say #NoTechForApartheid.

Here's hundreds of them in the Bay Area right *now*:

In NYC, @Google + @amazon workers showing up before the action to cancel Project Nimbus, united in making the same demand of their employers: #NoTechForApartheid.

When people both in and outside of tech unite to say #NoTechForApartheid.

@pal_legal @palyouthmvmt @AROCBayArea @ACREcampaigns @jvpliveNY @fightfortheftr @JustFuturesLaw @visualizingpal @MuslimJustice @AMPalestine In NYC right now, @Google + @amazon workers + community members are holding a direct action in front of Google offices, gathering to put pressure on Amazon/Google to end their Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli military + say #NoTechForApartheid:

@pal_legal @palyouthmvmt @AROCBayArea @ACREcampaigns @jvpliveNY @fightfortheftr @JustFuturesLaw @visualizingpal @MuslimJustice @AMPalestine @Google @amazon @lsarsour @DSA_Palestine @encodejustice @PSCupdates @NationalSJP Shamir, an @amazon product manager, speaking at the #NoTechForApartheid action in NYC:

"We are here to demand that @amazon + @Google listen to our voices...We must continue to raise our voices, until they stop profiting from apartheid."

Dylan Saba (of @pal_legal who've offered counsel to #NoTechForApartheid tech workers): "We said to the high-up executives at @amazon + @Google: it violates multiple laws for you to [retaliate against workers just] for questioning your complicity in Israeli apartheid technology."

@pal_legal @amazon @Google Speaking: Gabriel Schubiner, Engineer/AI Researcher @Google + @AlphabetWorkers organizer:

"Google retaliated against @ariel_koko , another Jewish Google worker, for her advocacy in support of Palestinians...[Google] reinforces a pervasive silencing of Palestinian voices."

On Project Nimbus:

“It’s through organizing with other workers, through our partnerships with @MPower_Change and @jvplive..and all of you who turned out, that we find strength and resolve to push @Google to drop this contract."

Up next, @lsarsour to @amazon/@Google: "We're not asking you to do anything you shouldn't already be doing. We're saying do not be complicit in the violations of human rights, whether [against] Palestinians, migrants or Black + brown communities here in NYC." #NoTechForApartheid

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