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
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.
"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."
"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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THREAD—It’d be a TERRIBLE idea for @JoeBiden to worsen the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen by pushing a stronger War on Terror framework & reinstating Trump's terror designation for Yemen's Houthis. Here's a few reasons why.
The US-backed, Saudi-led bombing & blockade of Yemen already kills one child in Yemen every 75 seconds. It is a catastrophic nightmare situation that @JoeBiden promised to stop fueling. It's just 1 of the many BASIC campaign promises he's failed to uphold
Ariel Koren, Google worker & Jewish Diaspora in Tech leader, tells @AymanM why 1,000+ @Google and @Amazon workers demand their employers cut Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli gov
Workers want their labor to uplift people—not power violence & apartheid
The Project Nimbus contract — which gives Google and Amazon minimal transparency and authority about how the Israeli government and military will use their services — alarms workers.
Tech companies have cut contracts that violate human rights before, and they can do it again.
1,000+ Google and Amazon workers believe they have “not only the right, but the responsibility” to stop their labor from enabling Israeli apartheid and violence.
They are putting their jobs on the line to get their employers to "do the right thing" and "live up to their values."
Palestinians rose up for liberty & justice this past May & June - now they're facing insurmountable legal fees after being incarcerated by the Israeli gov
Support the Dignity + Hope Fund & spread this urgent call for solidarity far and wide: dignityfund-baladna.com
“What we've seen in the last few days is repression and brutality against the bodies of young Palestinian detainees…” The words of Palestinian lawyer Soheir Asaaad describing the aftermath of May protests against Israel’s occupation #FreeThemAll
Israel acted swiftly and violently to quell these mass mobilizations. The widespread participation of Palestinians citizens of Israel triggered Israel’s brutal response. 2000+ Palestinians who participated in May protests were arrested. 200 were indicted—85 of them under 18
BREAKING —Nearly 500 @Amazon & @Google workers just joined forces to demand *both* companies cut their contract to provide cloud services to Israel's apartheid gov & military
This past summer — while the Israeli military leveled residential buildings and clinics in Gaza, killing 248 Palestinians (including over 60 children) that week alone — @Amazon & @Google announced their new cloud contract with the Israeli government: #ProjectNimbus
Among other things, Project Nimbus will power Israeli apartheid. Workers don't want to build tech that will power violence and human rights abuses against Palestinians
Their #1 ask? For @Amazon + @Google to stop doing business with Israeli apartheid
Shakoure's case illustrates the effects of anti-Blackness, Islamophobia & xenophobia in our carceral system. Shakoure already served 24.5 years in prison for the felony that triggered his arrest
But a pardon from Cuomo could end court proceedings & set him free #FreeShakoure 2/4
Shakoure—a Black Muslim youth mentor from Queens—shouldn't be going through this. Especially not from a jail cell while #COVID19 ravages jails across the US
This public health crisis continues to violate imprisoned ppl's human rights #FreeShakoure 3/4