Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel
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Google FIRES 28 employees over their involvement in $1.2B Israel contract protest inside New York and California offices
Search engine giant Google has fired nearly 30 of its US employees after they were arrested for staging sits-ins at the company's offices to protest its contract with the Israeli government
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Google employees arrested and fired after sit-in protest
Employees at Google's offices in New York and Sunnyvale staged a sit-in in protest of Project Nimbus on Tuesday. Nimbus is a government contract between Google and Amazon and the Israeli government for their cloud computing services. Protestors demanded that the $1.2 billion contract be terminated, ending Google's complicity and aid in human rights violations in Palestine. — Read the rest
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Google fires 28 employees who protested Israel cloud contract
Google has terminated 28 employees after dozens of workers participated in sit-ins inside company offices this week to protest the tech giant's work in Israel amid the war against Hamas in Gaza. The protests, organized by the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, raised concerns about Google and Amazon's $1.2-billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military. The campaign is demanding that Google and Amazon drop the effort, known as Project Nimbus. The advocacy group staged...