San Francisco, September 4 (RHC)-- In San Francisco, the U.S. state of California, tech workers and others protesters gathered outside the Google Cloud Next conference to call out Google’s contract with Israel, which uses the cloud service for its public sector and military, including to surveil Palestinians. 

Activist and protest organizer, Ariel Koren, told journalists: “We are here representing the No Tech for Apartheid campaign.  We’re a coalition of Google workers and community members who have coalesced to send a strong message to the company that Google workers are refusing to allow their labor to be used to power apartheid violence against Palestinian people.”

Project Nimbus is a $1.2 billion artificial intelligence and computer technology agreement between Google, Amazon Web Services and the Israeli government which went into effect in July 2021. 

A statement from the movement “No Tech for Apartheid” said, “Technology should be used to bring people together, not enable apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism.”