No Tech For Apartheid

We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology.

This is our first statement together.

Worker Groups Representing 700,000 Demand: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Must Reject Pentagon's Demands Reject The Pentagon’s Demands.

Read our full statement with @amzn4climate.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social, Amazon Labor Union, United Video Game Workers, + more: medium.com/@notechforap...

As workers who make these companies run, here are our demands:

Executive leadership at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon must reject the Pentagon’s advances and provide workers with transparency about contracts with other repressive state agencies including DHS, CBP, and ICE.

Our employers are already complicit in providing their technologies to power mass atrocities and war crimes; capitulating to the Pentagon’s intimidation will only further implicate our labor in violence and repression.

We are writing to urge our own companies to also refuse to comply should they or the frontier labs they invest in enter into further contracts with the Pentagon.

This intimidation is an ultimatum: AI companies can either agree to the Pentagon’s terms, or be designated a “supply chain risk,” or forced to provide the technology through the Defense Production Act.

We are speaking out today because the Pentagon is demanding that Anthropic abandon two major safety guardrails for Claude, which is the only frontier AI model currently deployed in classified Department of War operations.

We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology.

This is our first statement together.

Yesterday, our #GooglersAgainstICE petition opposing Google’s partnerships with DHS/ICE/CBP hit 1,400 signatures.

This powerful & growing response from Google workers represents widespread anger with leadership’s collusion with ICE’s horrific detention-deportation machine.

“As a Software Engineer in Google Cloud, it is horrifying to think that the code I write could be used by the Israeli Military in the first ever AI powered genocide,” said Google Cloud software engineer William Van Der Laar from Sunnyvale in a statement. “We did not come to Google to work on technology that kills. By engaging in this contract leadership has betrayed our trust, our AI Principles, and our humanity.”

Anyways we knew this was coming. "Don't use AI for weapons systems" is a principle I care a lot about and I think it's more important every day

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons, surveillance The company updated its 'Responsible AI' principles, which no longer includes a pledge to not use AI for weapons or surveillance.

There have been a lot of significant moments like this that get a bit of press but kinda fly under the radar given how important they are to the future of humanity

Support the Fired 50 Google Workers' Legal Defense Fund Dear Friends, Family, Coworkers, and Supporters,

There are a LOT of other causes out there more worthy of your help right now.

But if you are a tech worker or otherwise interested in trying to protect workers' right to organize, we would be grateful for your donation or a reshare. Litigation is expensive.

Tech workers like those at @notechforapartheid.bsky.social have been warning about going down this path for quite a while now

Truly eye-popping AI lobbying states from @publiccitizen.bsky.social's latest report. A quarter of all lobbyists worked on behalf of AI last year, and the number of data center lobbyists is up over 650% since 2020.

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

so inspired by my former co-workers and current co-organizers for leading the charge against Google Cloud for hosting data and AI for CBP and ICE

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No Tech for Apartheid is building labor power against technology fueling surveillance, apartheid, genocide, militarism, and state violence—from the U.S. to Palestine.

Are you a Google or Amazon worker? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join

This work is urgent. And workers have a unique postionality to resist.

That's why we’re coming together as Google workers to demand an end to this disgraceful use of our labor.

We welcome all Google workers join us and sign our petition at www.googlers-against-ice.com

Google execs have contracted with CBP to embed machine learning technology into existing Elbit watchtowers along the U.S.-Mexico border wall, supplied cloud services for Palantir's immigrationOS deportation platform, & willingly turned over private user information directly to ICE.

In this moment of rising global fascism, Google execs have sold this same palette of technologies to the DHS, ICE, & CBP to power its violent assault on immigrants and our cities at large.

Through Nimbus, Google provides air-gapped cloud services for Israeli weapons manufacturers, supplies object tracking, facial recognition technology, and Gemini, for Israel’s military operations.

These technologies have powered Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza over the last 2+ years.

Across Israel’s genocidal apartheid system in Palestine and ICE raids in the U.S., Google tech is a throughline connecting our fights against oppression. That is why we must exercise our collective power as workers and resist inhumane use of this technology—the technology we labored to create.

We believe that no matter where Google technology is being deployed for surveillance, militarism, & state violence, we have a responsibility, as workers, to resist it.

We started #NoTechForApartheid to organize against Project Nimbus, Google/Amazon’s $1B cloud contract w Israel

We’re taking on ICE contracts now not only bc it’s the right thing to do but bc organizing that materially recognizes the interconnectedness of our fights only strengthens our movements

Yesterday, our #GooglersAgainstICE petition opposing Google’s partnerships with DHS/ICE/CBP hit 1,400 signatures.

This powerful & growing response from Google workers represents widespread anger with leadership’s collusion with ICE’s horrific detention-deportation machine.

"Amazon tech helped deport my neighbours."

On Cyber Monday in New York, Amazon warehouse workers with Amazon Labor Union and tech workers with No Tech For Apartheid protested Amazon's complicity in Israel's genocide and ICE's deportations. #MakeAmazonPay

More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.

Thank you to No Tech for Apartheid for holding this work down

I'm featured in TIME's new cover story "People vs AI", speaking about my experience working on Gemini during Google's backslide into AI hype and militarism. A few thoughts 🧵

time.com/7377579/ai-d...

The People vs. AI Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

Thanks to organizing from groups like @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and @gcvoters.bsky.social, more people recognize that unregulated AI -- and the data centers that power it -- aren't likely to benefit regular people. time.com/7377579/ai-d...

Thank you @andrewrchow.bsky.social for this beautifully-written piece. It was a privilege to get the opportunity to elevate the incredible labor movement growing at Google, led by the workers in @notechforapartheid.bsky.social.
(If you're a Googler and want to know more, my DMs are open!)