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Google Fires Employees Protesting $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel
Alphabet Inc.’s Google fired 28 employees after participating in protests against Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon.com Inc. to provide the Israeli government with AI and intelligence services. cloud computing.
The protests, led by the organization No Tech for Apartheid, took place Tuesday at Google offices in New York, Seattle and Sunnyvale, California. Protesters in New York and California staged a nearly 10-hour sit-in, while others documented the action, including via a live stream on Twitch. Nine of them were arrested Tuesday evening for trespassing.
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