Hi!
Thanks so much for signing the Google
"Project Nimbus" petition just now! Did you
see that the chief prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court (ICC) applied for
arrest warrants against top Israeli and Hamas
leaders? How can Google's bosses just carry on
business as usual with Netanyahu?!
Let's keep the pressure up
-- and invite more people to show their
support for the campaign.
Please share the email below with
family, friends and colleagues.
Friends,
While the world has been reeling in
horror at the genocide in Gaza and deadly
pogroms against Palestinians in the West
Bank – Google is pressing ahead
with a massive government and military cloud
computer contract in Israel.
Google workers say that this
technology is directly enabling Israel’s
crimes against Palestinians. And they are
fighting back.
Last month tens of Google employees staged
simultaneous sit-ins in New York and
California, putting their bodies in the way to
defend human rights and disrupt the $1.2
billion Israeli government contract.
Google bosses retaliated by firing 50 of them
(even workers who weren't protesting!), but pressure
is mounting on the tech giant to drop the
Israeli government contract. Let's
add our voices and spread the word now:
Tell Google: drop
the Israeli government contract and
respect human rights
It’s all over the media. One
Google software engineer who participated in
the New York City sit-in protest in April said
that by providing cloud and AI infrastructure
to the Israeli military, Google is “directly
implicated in the genocide of the
Palestinian people.”
Now journalists at The Intercept have an
official Israeli government document which
proves that Google's statement that the
contract is "not directed at highly sensitive,
classified, or military workloads relevant to
weapons or intelligence services" is untrue.
In fact, the contract commits
Google to directly support Israel's weapons
corporations.
Google is having a PR meltdown.
A crackdown announcement to all employees,
leaked to the media, warns “If you’re one
of the few who are tempted to think we’re
going to overlook conduct that violates our
policies, think again.” Sounds
a little desperate, doesn’t it?
The truth is, the contract – called Project
Nimbus – has drawn condemnation from
shareholders as well as employees, over concerns
that the project will lead to further abuses
of Palestinians' human rights. But
we need to grow this campaign all around the
world, to change the calculus for the bosses
at Google.
There's no other way. The contract with the
Israeli government apparently forbids Google
from denying service to any particular
government entities. So the only way
for Google to end complicity in war crimes
committed by the Israeli military
is to drop the contract completely.
Tell Google: drop
Project Nimbus and respect human rights
for all
We’ve been fighting in solidarity with tech
workers and impacted communities for years.
After public pressure, Microsoft sold its
stake in AnyVision, a facial recognition
startup implicated in Israeli human rights
abuses. In 2020, we helped get Apple
to adopt a landmark human rights policy
to protect its customers. And the Ekō
community is still campaigning to stop Google
and Microsoft from building data centres in
Saudi Arabia, where we know the government
will stop at nothing to silence journalists
and dissidents.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at
you, then they fight you, then you
win.
Please click here to
sign: https://action.eko.org/a/google-drop-the-israel-contract-and-respect-human-rights?source=taf
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