Google workers protesting their company's contracts with the Israeli government on Tuesday were arrested for trespassing and placed on administrative leave.
Nine Google workers were arrested for trespassing in New York City and Sunnyvale, California on Tuesday night after an hours-long sit-in protest against their company’s contracts with Israel, a spokesperson from No Tech For Apartheid tells Gizmodo . Google says it has cut the protestors’ access and placed these employees on administrative leave.
2 billion Project Nimbus contract, which supplies AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military. The sit-ins lasted for hours, drawing large crowds outside of Google’s headquarters for bystanders to protest the company’s alleged role in the Israel and Palestine war. No Tech for Apartheid says they’ve faced extreme opposition within Google, but they faced new hostility from online members of the tech community on Wednesday.
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