As workers who make these companies run, here are our demands:
Executive leadership at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon must reject the Pentagon’s advances and provide workers with transparency about contracts with other repressive state agencies including DHS, CBP, and ICE.
Our employers are already complicit in providing their technologies to power mass atrocities and war crimes; capitulating to the Pentagon’s intimidation will only further implicate our labor in violence and repression.
We are writing to urge our own companies to also refuse to comply should they or the frontier labs they invest in enter into further contracts with the Pentagon.
We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology.
This is our first statement together.
This intimidation is an ultimatum: AI companies can either agree to the Pentagon’s terms, or be designated a “supply chain risk,” or forced to provide the technology through the Defense Production Act.
We are speaking out today because the Pentagon is demanding that Anthropic abandon two major safety guardrails for Claude, which is the only frontier AI model currently deployed in classified Department of War operations.
Read our full statement with @amzn4climate.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social, Amazon Labor Union, United Video Game Workers, + more: medium.com/@notechforap...
No Tech for Apartheid is building labor power against technology fueling surveillance, apartheid, genocide, militarism, and state violence—from the U.S. to Palestine.
Are you a Google or Amazon worker? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
This work is urgent. And workers have a unique postionality to resist.
That's why we’re coming together as Google workers to demand an end to this disgraceful use of our labor.
We welcome all Google workers join us and sign our petition at www.googlers-against-ice.com
We started #NoTechForApartheid to organize against Project Nimbus, Google/Amazon’s $1B cloud contract w Israel
We’re taking on ICE contracts now not only bc it’s the right thing to do but bc organizing that materially recognizes the interconnectedness of our fights only strengthens our movements
Yesterday, our #GooglersAgainstICE petition opposing Google’s partnerships with DHS/ICE/CBP hit 1,400 signatures.
This powerful & growing response from Google workers represents widespread anger with leadership’s collusion with ICE’s horrific detention-deportation machine.
You have to admit, "don't be evil" to "we refuse to discuss our ICE contracts" is a hell of an arc
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Are you a Google worker? Add your name: www.googlers-against-ice.com
TY @bcmerchant.bsky.social for speaking to us about our #GooglersAgainstICE petition—now at 1200+ names!
We refuse for our labor to power ICE—that's why we're growing our base of Google workers committed to antimilitarism & organized for the fights ahead.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/google-is-...
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
I spoke with Alex from @notechforapartheid.bsky.social, which is behind the petition, and other employees who feel similarly: Google's hardline posture, summary firing of employees who protested the company's contracts with the Israeli military, and recent layoffs, have created a climate of fear.
Incredible continued organizing by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
It's happening at Google, led by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
www.businessinsider.com/800-google-e...
BREAKING: We have now received 1200 signatures on our petition of Google workers demanding that the company cut its ties with DHS, CBP, and ICE.
ARE YOU A GOOGLE WORKER? Sign the petition at googlers-against-ice.com
This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you
did you know jared kushner said in davos that the plan is to build data centers where palestinians lived
I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
Why would you believe people who tell you that the US can't shut down institutions at the drop of a hat when you are currently witnessing this administration do it in real time?
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
