Workers spread out across four cities to demand Amazon and Google quit a cloud computing project and sever ties with the Israeli government.
One of the leading voices advocating against Project Maven at Google claims she was forced to resign from her job of seven years last week due to retaliation for her activism. In awith Gizmodo, Ariel Koren, the former Google marketing manager, described a climate of hostility towards pro-Palestinian voices. Koren and fellow activists sent numerous emails to Google officials voicing concerns over the firm’s continued ties with Israel and that those appeals went either unheard or ignored.
“Instead of listening to employees who want Google to live up to its ethical principles, Google is aggressively pursuing military contracts and stripping away the voices of its employees through a pattern of silencing and retaliation towards me and many others,” Koren wrote in anonce applauded by employees for its open communication regarding business decisions, began keeping more secrets around the time of Maven, adding to tensions around the government contract.
That same pattern apparently played out last year when Google workers said they were blindsided by news the company was actively pursuing a new cloud contract with the Pentagon, this one referred to as “Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability.” That pursuit was never articulated to workers. A Google program managerThe New York Times“Workers should absolutely be given the right to know where their labor is being put to,” the program manager said.
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