Nine Google employees, along with dozens of demonstrators, were arrested on Tuesday at the company’s offices in California and New York for holding a protest against Google’s corporate relationship with Israel.
The demonstrators organized a sit-in protest for more than eight hours in the Sunnyvale, California, office of Thomas Kurian, the executive and CEO of Google Cloud.
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.
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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. The protesters were upset that the technology relationship helps provide facial recognition,
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