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Google is facing internal pushback over its business dealings with Israel as workers staged protests at the company's New York and Sunnyvale, California locations. Employees affiliated with the organization"No Tech For Apartheid" demand that Google pull out from Project Nimbus — a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government to provide AI and cloud computing services.
The sit-in, organized by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid, is happening at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale and the 10th floor commons of Google’s New York office. The sit-in will be accompanied by outdoor protests at Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and Seattle beginning at 2 pm ET and 11 am...Nine Google employees who occupied the company’s offices in New York and California were arrested Tuesday night after an eight-hour sit-in.
The workers were protesting Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government contract for Google and Amazon’s cloud computing services. Employees at the Sunnyvale, California, campus occupied Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office on Tuesday afternoon, while workers in New York held a sit-in in the common area of the Chelsea office’s 10th floor.
Police arrested several Google employees who staged sit-in protests on Tuesday to oppose the company’s ties to Israel. Protesters occupied offices in New York, California, and Washington to demand that the company cancel Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract with Israel. The cloud-computing project is shared by Amazon. Google employees started an internal “No Tech for Apartheid” group with over 200 members, which has been active since October, to protest the venture — employees also staged a “die-in” outside of a Google building in San Francisco in December.
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