No Tech For Apartheid

"If we do not stand up to Peter Thiel, they re going to come after all of us."

Palantir moved its headquarters to Colorado, but it still has an office right here in the Bay Area:

100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA

Palantir partners with:

ICE to kidnap immigrants
Israel to commit genocide
DOGE to cut federal services
CIA for mass surveillance

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As tech workers, we have a moral responsibility to resist complicity and the militarization of our work before it’s too late.”

Are you a Google or Amazon worker? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join (LINK IN BIO)

deporting immigrants and dissidents, stripping people of reproductive rights, rewriting the rules of our government and economy to favor big tech billionaires, and continuing to power the genocide of Palestinians.

To my fellow Google workers: If we don’t act now, we will be conscripted into this administration’s fascist and cruel agenda:

Here, we can find a basis for treating solidarity as a workplace condition and organizing issue, and a way of building the necessary power not only to make small gains but to upend the power dynamic that allows our bosses to prioritize a genocide over our own voices.

“Workers have always resisted the weaponization of tech, from the United Farm Workers leveraging boycotts & labor strikes to the Black American workers who organized the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement against the use of Polaroid film tech in the passbooks of apartheid South Africa (and won)

Emma shares NOTA’s position on the responsibility of tech workers in the face of worker repression & escalating, AI-powered fascism & genocide: Only a strong, organized mass base of workers taking collective action together can end the militarization of Google and tech at large.

In the year since, Google has deepened its foray into military contracting, dropping its pledge not to build AI for weapons/surveillance, acquiring Israeli cloud security start-up Wiz, partnering with CBP at the US-Mexico border, and launching an AI partnership with Lockheed Martin.

Last week marked 1 year since historic Google worker sit-ins protesting the company’s cloud contract with Israel, Project Nimbus.

The Nation I've worked at Google for Decades. I'm sickened by what it's doing. For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly because our company is now powering state violence across the globe. Emma Jackson

NEW— @thenation.com op-ed by Google worker & #NoTechForApartheid organizer Emma Jackson, going public for the first time www.thenation.com/article/soci...

YouTube video by Media Education Foundation Robin D.G. Kelley | "The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide: The Long Durée."

Robin D.G. Kelley on “The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide”

Tell Google: Stop Using Your AI for Genocide, Apartheid, and Border Violence This week, while Google hosts its Google Cloud Next conference in an attempt to whitewash its complicity in genocide and militarism, its tech is being weaponized against Palestinians, migrants, and co...

'to every Googler relieved to hear Thomas Kurian promise in 2020 that "Cloud isn't working on any projects associated w/ ICE at the Southern border"- Google Cloud is providing AI on those exact projects'
-Anonymous Google Worker

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Google AI claims: "Nicolas Cage and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson appeared in the 1996 film The Rock."

Google obliterated their search function for this

Workers will keep building power together to control and redirect how our labor is used before Google technology becomes even more catastrophic to ourselves, our communities, and our world.

Workers, students, community – we are stronger together.

Google’s executives and managers may join ICE and the DHS in trying to silence pro-Palestinian voices, but we are not deterred. We look to Mahmoud Kalil, Leqaa Kordia, Ranjani Srinivasan, and others in the student movement to reaffirm our commitment to speaking truth to power.

Driven by the desire to control the market and the thirst for profit, Kurian and Google executives are all too eager to establish Google as the backbone of the U.S.-Israeli war machine. They are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes, even if it means ravaging the planet or bloodying their hands.

Google executives responsible for this decision — namely Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian — are shameless genocide profiteers. This acquisition is a flagrant ploy by Google to beat out competitors like Amazon Web Services in the race to dominate the cloud computing marketplace.

Google workers do not want their labor to power the decimation of the Palestinian people. We vehemently oppose this investment, continue to reject Project Nimbus, & Google’s powering of the genocide in Gaza.

Additionally, Google recently finalized a real estate deal to rent 60,000 sq. meters of office space in Tel Aviv. Instead of divesting from Israel’s genocidal project, Google is leaning in with its investment in the colonial, racist, apartheid project of the so-called Israeli state.

But changing political winds will not deter us. As workers, we remain steadfast in our commitment to force the company to end Project Nimbus and end its business with Israel. This acquisition marks a continuation of Google’s brazen support for the Israeli apartheid system.

Emboldened by its coziness with the Trump administration, Google is playing with fire and trusting that its performative overtures toward new leadership in the country will protect it.

Google’s acquisition of Wiz is yet another example of the company’s ongoing antitrust violations. While mired in antitrust lawsuits, Google spent a whopping $33 billion to acquire Wiz—the most expensive acquisition for the corporation to date.

Since 2021, workers have been organizing against Google’s complicity in aiding and abetting the Israeli apartheid state and the genocide in Gaza.

This decision by Google executives represents brazen disregard for the concerns that workers across the globe have raised about Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion joint cloud computing contract with Israel.

Wiz is an Israeli cloud security startup founded by former members of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s infamous clandestine intelligence unit.