The rally, scheduled for 11 a.m. at Lake Union Park, is part of a coast-to-coast day of action demanding that Google drop its $1.2 billion contract with Israel.
Seattle Google employees and community members are set to protest the tech giant's contracts with the Israeli military on Tuesday. The workers, organized under the banner of No Tech For Apartheid, claim that Google's involvement in Project Nimbus is contributing to what they describe as an "AI-powered genocide" in Gaza. The recent resignation of two Google workers, Eddie Hatfield and Vidana Abdel Khalek, has brought attention to Google's ties to the Israeli military.
" The Israeli military allegedly uses Google Photos for facial recognition purposes in Gaza, leading to the arrest and mistreatment of thousands of Palestinians.Google workers are adamant that their labor should not support what they see as the Israeli military's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. They are calling on Google to end its business ties with Israel and stop providing technology that enables what they term a "genocide.
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