BREAKING: #NoTechForApartheid activists took over Google's biggest AI conference last night

we came together to demand #NoTechForApartheid

As salaamu alaykum, Indiana—

Last night, hundreds of Google workers and Bay Area community members rallied outside the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco.

In an unprecedented moment, over 30 Bay Area activists chained themselves to each other at the main intersection and pedestrian bridge, effectively blocking off traffic and disrupting Google Cloud's biggest event of the year to demand Google drop its $1B contract with the Israeli military and government.

Click here to add your name in solidarity with activists and workers who put their bodies on the line last night.

Tell Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian: #NoTechForApartheid.

 Google Cloud is celebrating its first year of profitability at their conference this week.

That's why Google workers and the Bay Area community made it clear yesterday that there is nothing to celebrate as long as Google continues to profit off of Israeli apartheid, state violence, and the violence Palestinians face living under military occupation. 

We refuse to allow business as usual for war profiteers like Google Cloud that power apartheid and violence.

Add your name in solidarity with local Bay Area partners like the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center who spearheaded yesterday's action— as well as the community members who put their bodies on the line.

For almost two years, Google and Amazon workers have been organizing against their employers' joint contract called Project Nimbus — a shadowy $1 billion cloud contract that helps the Israeli government surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence on Palestinians living under siege and occupation.

Through Project Nimbus, Google is only helping to make Israeli apartheid more efficient, more violent, and deadlier for Palestinians.

But last night, Bay Area community activists and Google workers effectively took over the central space at the Google Cloud Next conference, kicking up the #NoTechForApartheid campaign to another level and gathering press hits on this unprecedented direct action from the LA Times¹ to the San Francisco Chronicle,² to Reuters³ and beyond.

We're making it clear to Google that after over two years of collective organizing, we will not stop until they cut Project Nimbus. 

Amplify the tech workers and local community members who put their bodies on the line last night. Join us to demand #NoTechForApartheid.

Thank you for everything you do.

In solidarity,

Lau, Sara, Binita and the MPower Change team

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Sources:

1. "'Google has no scruples.' Employees protest Google Cloud conference over Israel military contract," Los Angeles Times, August 29, 2023.
2. "Protesters outside Google's Cloud conference decry tech giant's work with Israeli government," San Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 2023.
3. "Protesters demand Google drop cloud service for Israel," Reuters, August 30, 2023.

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