Google has fired 28 employees for their involvement in sit-in protests at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, against Google’s $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military.
The New York Post reports that Google has terminated 28 employees for their participation in sit-in protests at the company’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California. The protests, organized by the group “No Tech For Apartheid,” were aimed at Google’s $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” contract, in which Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services provide cloud-computing and artificial intelligence services to the Israeli government and military.
The demonstrations took place on Tuesday, with protesters occupying the 10th floor of Google’s Chelsea office in Manhattan and the personal office of Google Cloud
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