Nine Google employees along with dozens of demonstrators were arrested on Tuesday at their corporate offices in California and New York for holding a protest against the company's work with Israel.
employees, along with dozens of demonstrators, were arrested on Tuesday at the company’s offices in California and New York for holding a
BREAKING: Google employees were arrested after occupying their boss's office for more than 8 hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel.The employees had shared in work emails that Google needed to stop its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government’s cloud-computing Project Nimbus.
They added, “Years of being silenced, ignored and lied to by leadership has confirmed to us as workers that our concerns will not be heard without significant action, and as you read this, we are sitting in the office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud, until our demands are met.”The video stream showed a Google official notifying the employees that they had been put on administrative leave.
The protesters acknowledged that they understood but did not move. A couple of minutes later after the request, police were seen walking into the office and arresting the demonstrators.
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