โTop Recruits Refuse to Work for Google or Amazon Over Involvement in Israeli War Crimes
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By Jessica BUXBAUM
As Google and Amazon employees fight back against the tech giantsโ Israeli military contract, college graduates have also joined the resistance.
Amid Israelโs assault on Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem in May 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to Israelโs public sector and its military, known as Project Nimbus.
In response, Google and Amazon workers formed a coalition opposing Project Nimbus as well as strategizing against the technologyโs implementation.
While just over a year old, Google and Amazon have not addressed the Workers Against Nimbus and #NoTechForApartheid campaigns publicly, but the activist network has had success in cutting the corporationsโ power โ even if only slightly.
โThe students who are graduating from university and who have applied to Amazon and Google are turning down all of these interview requests,โ an anonymous Amazon employee told MintPress News, describing how it makes them hopeful to see that kind of community support. โTheyโre specifically telling Amazon and Google, โWeโre not going to these interviews because of Project Nimbus.โโโ
Earlier this month, activists disrupted the keynote speech at an AWS summit in New York City, drawing attention to the tech behemothโs controversial contract with the Israeli government.
โBy doing business with Israeli apartheid, Amazon and Google will make it easier for the Israeli government to surveil Palestinians and force them off their land,โ a website for the #NoTechForApartheid campaign says.
Outside the summitโs venue, Google employee Gabriel Schubiner addressed protesters. โAs tech workers we need to ask ourselves: do we want a world where militaries around the world are training AI [artificial intelligence] for surveillance and targeting on our hardware?โ Schubiner said. โDo we want to give nationalist armies of the world our technology?โ
Google and AWS beat out IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft for an Israeli government tender last year to jointly build and provide cloud-based regional data centers within Israelโs borders and under Israeli law. Project Nimbus will allow Israeli ministries and other public entities to transfer servers and services into the cloud. Local data centers are expected to be completed within two years. Until then, cloud services will be provided by Google and AWS data centers in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany.
The contract also includes a provision stipulating Amazon and Google cannot shut down operations and deny services to certain government entities, effectively barring the tech firms from engaging in a boycott of Israel or stopping the technology from being used to enact human rights abuses.
The Workers Against Project Nimbus campaign described how they felt during the Israeli 2021 attacks and why they were compelled to join together.
โ[W]e had to face the fact that those of us Palestinian tech workers with family and loved ones in Gaza or the West Bank, those of us living in diaspora, would now be enabling violence and oppression against our own communities โ all while professing the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,โ The Workers Against Project Nimbus said in a July 26 Tech Workers Coalition (TWC)...
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By Jessica BUXBAUM
As Google and Amazon employees fight back against the tech giantsโ Israeli military contract, college graduates have also joined the resistance.
Amid Israelโs assault on Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem in May 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to Israelโs public sector and its military, known as Project Nimbus.
In response, Google and Amazon workers formed a coalition opposing Project Nimbus as well as strategizing against the technologyโs implementation.
While just over a year old, Google and Amazon have not addressed the Workers Against Nimbus and #NoTechForApartheid campaigns publicly, but the activist network has had success in cutting the corporationsโ power โ even if only slightly.
โThe students who are graduating from university and who have applied to Amazon and Google are turning down all of these interview requests,โ an anonymous Amazon employee told MintPress News, describing how it makes them hopeful to see that kind of community support. โTheyโre specifically telling Amazon and Google, โWeโre not going to these interviews because of Project Nimbus.โโโ
Earlier this month, activists disrupted the keynote speech at an AWS summit in New York City, drawing attention to the tech behemothโs controversial contract with the Israeli government.
โBy doing business with Israeli apartheid, Amazon and Google will make it easier for the Israeli government to surveil Palestinians and force them off their land,โ a website for the #NoTechForApartheid campaign says.
Outside the summitโs venue, Google employee Gabriel Schubiner addressed protesters. โAs tech workers we need to ask ourselves: do we want a world where militaries around the world are training AI [artificial intelligence] for surveillance and targeting on our hardware?โ Schubiner said. โDo we want to give nationalist armies of the world our technology?โ
Google and AWS beat out IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft for an Israeli government tender last year to jointly build and provide cloud-based regional data centers within Israelโs borders and under Israeli law. Project Nimbus will allow Israeli ministries and other public entities to transfer servers and services into the cloud. Local data centers are expected to be completed within two years. Until then, cloud services will be provided by Google and AWS data centers in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany.
The contract also includes a provision stipulating Amazon and Google cannot shut down operations and deny services to certain government entities, effectively barring the tech firms from engaging in a boycott of Israel or stopping the technology from being used to enact human rights abuses.
The Workers Against Project Nimbus campaign described how they felt during the Israeli 2021 attacks and why they were compelled to join together.
โ[W]e had to face the fact that those of us Palestinian tech workers with family and loved ones in Gaza or the West Bank, those of us living in diaspora, would now be enabling violence and oppression against our own communities โ all while professing the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,โ The Workers Against Project Nimbus said in a July 26 Tech Workers Coalition (TWC)...
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A potential nuclear disaster at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye could threaten public health in Ukraine and beyond, the IAEA has said
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A potential nuclear disaster at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye could threaten public health in Ukraine and beyond, the IAEA has said
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Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed the ban into law on Friday, after it passed both chambers of the Republican-controlled state legislature. The law, which takes effect on September 15, outlaws all abortions except in cases of rape and incest, where the motherโs life is in danger, or if an unborn baby is diagnosed with a fatal abnormality.
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Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed the ban into law on Friday, after it passed both chambers of the Republican-controlled state legislature. The law, which takes effect on September 15, outlaws all abortions except in cases of rape and incest, where the motherโs life is in danger, or if an unborn baby is diagnosed with a fatal abnormality.
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Bells toll in Hiroshima on 77th anniversary - UN gives nuclear warning
Thousands packed into Hiroshima's Peace Park to mark the 77th anniversary of the US bombing that killed 140,000 people in 1945.
Antonio Guterres was in attendance, making it only the second time a UN Secretary General has taken part in the annual commemoration.
At the event, Guterres called nuclear weapons โnonsenseโ and warned of a new arms race.
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Bells toll in Hiroshima on 77th anniversary - UN gives nuclear warning
Thousands packed into Hiroshima's Peace Park to mark the 77th anniversary of the US bombing that killed 140,000 people in 1945.
Antonio Guterres was in attendance, making it only the second time a UN Secretary General has taken part in the annual commemoration.
At the event, Guterres called nuclear weapons โnonsenseโ and warned of a new arms race.
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Twitter Admits to Being Hacked
Twitter has informed users of a security bug that had allowed โa bad actorโ to obtain and sell the personal data of account holders. The tech giant didnโt provide the number of compromised accounts, but media reports state that more than 5 million users could have been affected.
A company statement said that the system vulnerability, which resulted from a June 2021 code update, made it possible to enter an email address or phone number and learn if either was linked to a specific account.
Twitter fixed the bug in early 2022. In July, however, the company saw a press report suggesting that โsomeone had potentially leveraged this and was offering to sell the information they had compiled.โ
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Twitter Admits to Being Hacked
Twitter has informed users of a security bug that had allowed โa bad actorโ to obtain and sell the personal data of account holders. The tech giant didnโt provide the number of compromised accounts, but media reports state that more than 5 million users could have been affected.
A company statement said that the system vulnerability, which resulted from a June 2021 code update, made it possible to enter an email address or phone number and learn if either was linked to a specific account.
Twitter fixed the bug in early 2022. In July, however, the company saw a press report suggesting that โsomeone had potentially leveraged this and was offering to sell the information they had compiled.โ
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Erdoganโs diplomacy with Russia alarms West โ FT
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While Turkey is a NATO member, its president has walked a middle path on Ukraine
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Aug 7 - COVID 19 "Vaccine" is a Human Pesticide
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("Effective" at killing and maiming. Trials convinced Lucifer to go ahead.)
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Disclaimer - While I believe the "vaccine" is intended to debilitate or kill people, I am not seeing a lot of first-hand evidence of this here in Winnipeg.
While 85% of Canadians have received one vaccination, and 82% of those, two, people I see seem pretty normal. I'd like to receive more personal accounts of vaccine damage.
Father of child who developed myocarditis after the Covid-19 vaccine calls the pharmacy that administered it
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("Effective" at killing and maiming. Trials convinced Lucifer to go ahead.)
Please send links and comments to hmakow@gmail.com
Disclaimer - While I believe the "vaccine" is intended to debilitate or kill people, I am not seeing a lot of first-hand evidence of this here in Winnipeg.
While 85% of Canadians have received one vaccination, and 82% of those, two, people I see seem pretty normal. I'd like to receive more personal accounts of vaccine damage.
Father of child who developed myocarditis after the Covid-19 vaccine calls the pharmacy that administered it
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Taiwan: Artillery Drill Backfires
Days after China's Liberation Army started massive live-fire drills, the Taiwanese army also conducted their own in Lienchiang.
The exercises didn't exactly go to plan when a fire broke out on the outer Xiyin island. It was eventually extinguished as fears mounted of nearby residential areas.
It's not clear how the blaze started, with some reporting tracer fire or flares landing on hill.
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Taiwan: Artillery Drill Backfires
Days after China's Liberation Army started massive live-fire drills, the Taiwanese army also conducted their own in Lienchiang.
The exercises didn't exactly go to plan when a fire broke out on the outer Xiyin island. It was eventually extinguished as fears mounted of nearby residential areas.
It's not clear how the blaze started, with some reporting tracer fire or flares landing on hill.
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Israel blames Gaza rocket misfire for child deaths
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The IDF accuses Palestinian militants of using civilians as โhuman shieldsโ
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed striking multiple โterrorist targetsโ across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, but denied any responsibility for a deadly blast in Jabali...
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The IDF accuses Palestinian militants of using civilians as โhuman shieldsโ
The death toll in the Gaza Strip amid Israelโs ongoing โOperation Breaking Dawnโ has grown to 24, including six children, with over 200 people wounded as of Saturday night, according to Palestinian health officials. The Israeli military accuses the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants of using civilians as โhuman shieldsโ and killing own people in botched rocket attacks.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed striking multiple โterrorist targetsโ across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, but denied any responsibility for a deadly blast in Jabali...
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