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Google fires employees for protesting Cloud deal with Israel

The New Arab 18 Apr 2024
A Google spokesman responded to the protests by saying the $1 billion Nimbus contract was not "directed at highly sensitive or classified military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services".
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Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract

Dawn 18 Apr 2024
The protesting faction says that Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract awarded to Google and Amazon.com in 2021 to supply the Israeli government with cloud services, supports the development of military tools by the Israeli government.
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Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office

Slashdot 18 Apr 2024
"On a personal level, I am opposed to Google taking any military contracts -- no matter which government they're with or what exactly the contract is about," Cheyne Anderson, a Google Cloud software engineer based in Washington, told CNBC.
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Google fires 28 employees for protesting Israel cloud deal

CNN 18 Apr 2024
“This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers,” the group said in a statement published on Medium Thursday.
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Google fires 28 workers after protest over Israel deal

Israel Hayom 18 Apr 2024
Google on Wednesday terminated 28 employees after a series of protests against labor conditions and the company's contract to provide the Israeli government and military.
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Google terminates 28 employees after multi-city protests: Read the full memo

NBC Bay Area 18 Apr 2024
That same week, an internal Google employee message board was shut down after staffers posted comments about the company's Israeli military contracts.
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Google fires 28 employees following Sunnyvale, New York protests

East Bay Times 18 Apr 2024
“This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers,” the group states.
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Google fires 28 employees over protests against company's contract with Israel

Anadolu Agency 18 Apr 2024
"This flagrant act of retaliation is a clear indication that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the genocidal Israeli government and military more than its own workers," the group said.
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Google fired 28 employees for staging in-office protests against the company's contract with Israel

Business Insider 18 Apr 2024
Small groups of Google employees have voiced dissent against Project Nimbus, a joint contract with Amazon that provides artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to Israel's government and military.
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Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract

NBC News 18 Apr 2024
Google has fired more than two dozen employees for protesting the company's $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud and artificial intelligence services ... .
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Sikorsky will lay off hundreds of workers in CT after US Army scraps new helicopter program

The CT Mirror 18 Apr 2024
... others, such as David Cadden, a professor emeritus at Quinnipiac University say the subsidiary can still boast several military contracts and the possibility of design upgrades to existing aircraft.
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University of Idaho murder suspect says cellphone data proves he was out driving at the time of deaths

NBC Bay Area 18 Apr 2024
Kohberger's team intends to rely on testimony from cell tower data expert Sy Ray, an experienced military and law enforcement instructor who they say can prove their client was miles away from Moscow at the time of the crime.
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Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract

New York Post 18 Apr 2024
The protesters have demanded that Google pull out of a $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” contract — in which Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services provide cloud-computing and artificial intelligence services for the Israeli government and military.
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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out a fire after Russia's missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023.
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Destroying Cultural Heritage

Human Rights Watch 18 Apr 2024
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Google will provide AI to the military for disaster response

Stars and Stripes 17 Apr 2024

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