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Google backed Israel’s military. Now its workers are in revolt (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's early morning, and Zelda Montes walks briskly through the crisp New York air as they head to Google's headquarters on Manhattan’s 9th Avenue. Montes, who self-identifies as they, fumbles with their ID card at the entrance, blending in with the steady stream of Googlers swiping through the security barriers as if it were just another day at the office.

Armed with an oversized tote bag, Montes pulls back their purple hair and heads to the 13th-floor canteen to order their usual: a dirty chai and an egg, avocado, and cheese sandwich with a bowl of raspberries.

Their hands tremble slightly as they grip the coffee cup.

Locking eyes with two others, they get the signal that the coast is clear, head down to the entrance, and sit. The three Googlers unfurl their banners and begin chanting to demand that Google do one thing: Drop Project Nimbus.

But this will be the last time they sit inside Google's New York office as Googlers, as Google itself refers to its own employees. "Getting fired felt like a possibility but never a reality," remarked Montes, one of 50 employees fired by Google for staging a 10-hour sit-in at one of its American offices in April.

For the last three years, Montes has been one of several activists calling for Google to drop Project Nimbus, a partnership Google and Amazon have with the Israeli government reportedly worth $1.2bn.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Didn't this happen months ago? They did a sit-in to whistleblow against Google supporting genocide, and got fired and arrested as soon as HR could process the afortmentioned firing

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy didn't think he'd be fired for doing this. How daft can you be?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They said it felt like a possibility. I don't believe that implies they thought they wouldn't be fired. We can think something is a possibility and prepare for it and still be shocked when it actually happens.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's early morning, and Zelda Montes walks briskly through the crisp New York air as they head to Google's headquarters on Manhattan’s 9th Avenue.

Oh my god, why put in a topic about serious matter all that fancy decorum? I immediately see a man with a bun, typing this topic in a café, not caring a single shit about real people behind the text.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If I had to guess it's meant to evoke relatability for Googlers.

I liked it because it highlights the comfortable world of the people abetting in the Genocide, in contrast to those suffering from it.

There is a lot to gain for those who do not suffer from morals.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

The description seems primed to generate the opposite reaction from the opposite sides of the political divide based on the reaction to the NB, coloured hair, and breakfast choice.

[+] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Grim, but technically accurate, to say nothing of whether such actions are right or wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

this sounds controversial but is actually the right thing to do, except the mass shooting part, reserve that for the c-suite, not the every day wage slaver

sometimes i imagine a world in which organized autonomous activists take out these capitalists and it really feels within reach

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Depends if they are ideologically driven or just replaceable puppets. Most are of the second kind.

Israel would love to have some martyrs offered for their cause to whine about.

I recall an article about an Amazon employee going mad about his working conditions and shooting other workers in the warehouse. Don't think he directed his anger correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

C-suites also are someone's husbands, wives, sons and daughters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mass shootings are never a solution, also not in C-suites. I don’t think anyone should be ‘taken out’.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oil execs?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn’t be killed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Guess we'll just die then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can’t believe I’m arguing about whether there are people that should be killed or not. Of course not! Killing oil executives is not the only way to stop fossil fuel from being used. You’re a bad person if you’re seriously proposing this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They own our politicians so our options are actually very limited. I won't be pulling the trigger but there's little doubt in my mind that they will not stop until we kill them.

Their actions will bring about the death of millions and a collapse of our ecosystem, so it's not as simple as saying every life is sacred no matter what that person choses to do with it. Would you go back in time to kill Hitler, because future generations will be asking themselves the same question about oil execs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Tech and politics always a winning combination

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

IBM : Nazi Party :: Google : IDF

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/235_no_tech_for_apartheid_w_mohammad_khatami__gabi_schubiner

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

another reason to leave google

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At one point in the pandemic I worked for a sizeable tech company that was similar. They sent out an Zionism apologist email about how much the company supports Israel. STFU! We are the company, you wouldn't have shit if we didn't come to work. I know my colleagues well enough to know they are mostly NOT Neocons and Zionists. I was pretty pissed that they would say something political because it throws me into the position of having to address it because the "we" they used in the email makes it sound like I'm involved. I just work here. I don't want any part of your corporate politics and I want you to know that when we seize the means of production (and your ill-begotton fruits of others labor) we're gonna donate your yachts and bank accounts to help victims of Zionism and Imperialism.

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