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    8 months ago

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    Some of them occupied the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian until they were forcibly removed by law enforcement.

    Last month, Google fired another employee for protesting the contract during a company presentation in Israel.

    In a memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said that “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.” You can read the full memo at the bottom of this story.

    He also warned that the company would take more action if needed: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing.

    In a response statement, the “No Tech for Apartheid” group behind the protests called Google’s firings a “flagrant act of retaliation.”

    “In the three years that we have been organizing against Project Nimbus, we have yet to hear from a single executive about our concerns,” the group wrote in a post on Medium.


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