You have to admit, "don't be evil" to "we refuse to discuss our ICE contracts" is a hell of an arc

Alex, the Googlers Against ICE organizer, ended with a message to his colleagues in the industry: “You’re not alone. You have support of your fellow workers in your company and across the industry. It’s time we take responsibility for how our products are used for surveillance and violence.”

The tide may be turning, Alex says, as ICE violence becomes unignorable, and the threat comes closer to home. ICE is deeply unpopular, and he and other organizers see more workers coming around.

Organizers say that nearly everyone they speak to at the company is against Google's ICE contracts and supports divesting from them. But fear of retaliation, of losing their jobs, is so rampant than only a fraction are willing to come forward to speak out.

I spoke with Alex from @notechforapartheid.bsky.social, which is behind the petition, and other employees who feel similarly: Google's hardline posture, summary firing of employees who protested the company's contracts with the Israeli military, and recent layoffs, have created a climate of fear.

Google used to be known for fostering an open workplace; employees were free to critique and poke fun of the company's policies. Now, with Google's open alignment with the Trump White House and a hardline stance on protest, it swiftly stifles dissent as its employees question ties with ICE.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

TY @bcmerchant.bsky.social for speaking to us about our #GooglersAgainstICE petition—now at 1200+ names! We refuse for our labor to power ICE—that's why we're growing our base of Google workers committed to antimilitarism & organized for the fights ahead. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/google-is-...

Nearly a thousand Google workers sign letter urging company to divest from ICE, CBP

Please spread among Google workers far and wide: www.googlers-against-ice.com

More Than 1,000 Google Workers Call On Company to Cancel Contracts with ICE and CBP

According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”

BREAKING: We have now received 1200 signatures on our petition of Google workers demanding that the company cut its ties with DHS, CBP, and ICE. ARE YOU A GOOGLE WORKER? Sign the petition at googlers-against-ice.com

ICYMI: 950+ Google workers signed a petition demanding that executives "disclose all contracts and collaboration with DHS, CBP, and ICE, and to divest from these partnerships." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

It's happening at Google, led by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/800-google-e...

Incredible continued organizing by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

Tech workers with @notechforapartheid.bsky.social have been pressuring Google and Amazon to stop enabling human rights violations in Palestine. Now they’re urging the companies to end their computing contracts with ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Worker groups like @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and No Azure For Apartheid have been pressuring Microsoft for months or years on issues like these. Microsoft tries to silence dissent and make workers feel powerless--but they aren't. Every employee who was fired for standing up is saving lives.

This weekend, we held a rally against the dangerous alliance developing between Trump and tech billionaires. We joined organizers fighting Big Tech’s data centers, and tech workers @notechforapartheid.bsky.social holding tech corporations accountable for participating in the genocide in Palestine.

In June, @Google quietly signed a $45M ad contract w/ Israel to spread propaganda denying Israel's genocide & starvation of Palestinians in Gaza Along w/ cloud & AI, Google’s ad machine—the world's biggest—is now in Israel's genocide supply chain Statement by Google workers w #NoTechForApartheid🧵

I’m joining hundreds of other #Google workers fasting today in solidarity with people in Gaza who are being forcibly starved. Mutual aid is part of this weekly campaign. Here is one way you can help today. Follow Molly’s incredible work to continue to find ways to help Palestinians directly.

A new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social focuses on data center expansion in the US South, looking at environmental racism and practices of resistance. Can’t wait to dig in!

In June, @Google quietly signed a $45M ad contract w/ Israel to spread propaganda denying Israel's genocide & starvation of Palestinians in Gaza Along w/ cloud & AI, Google’s ad machine—the world's biggest—is now in Israel's genocide supply chain Statement by Google workers w #NoTechForApartheid🧵

“As authorities round up their work force, the big players in the world of Silicon Valley-developed delivery apps have largely remained silent. Three of the biggest — Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash — did not respond to requests for comment.” theintercept.com/2025/08/26/t...

“Any hint of looking at the broader system rather than individual responsibility is excised from this paper. That is clearly an intentional choice: if Google disclosed the system impacts of generation, it would probably look way worse.” @ketanjoshi.co on what’s obscured in Google’s AI climate data.

We won but we're not done!! Here's our latest update. If you'd like to receive these in your inbox and/or join us as we continue our work, fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

"I entrust you with [Palestine's] people, with its oppressed young children who were not given the chance to dream or live in safety and peace, whose pure bodies were crushed by thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls." -- Anas Al Sharif

"As AI overviews become the default gateway to information, we risk creating a generation of users who consume knowledge without question, publishers who cannot sustain quality journalism, and a public sphere increasingly shaped by the statistical patterns embedded in large language models."

Google partners with the Israeli military as it conducts a genocide in Gaza. Now, the company is bolstering the United Arab Emirates’ AI ambitions, despite widespread accusations that the UAE is involved in a genocide in Sudan. prismreports.org/2025/07/28/g... @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

"If we do not stand up to Peter Thiel, they re going to come after all of us."

Palantir moved its headquarters to Colorado, but it still has an office right here in the Bay Area: 100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA Palantir partners with: ICE to kidnap immigrants Israel to commit genocide DOGE to cut federal services CIA for mass surveillance @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

NEW— @thenation.com op-ed by Google worker & #NoTechForApartheid organizer Emma Jackson, going public for the first time www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Robin D.G. Kelley on “The Black Radical Tradition Against Fascism and Genocide”

'to every Googler relieved to hear Thomas Kurian promise in 2020 that "Cloud isn't working on any projects associated w/ ICE at the Southern border"- Google Cloud is providing AI on those exact projects' -Anonymous Google Worker @notechforapartheid.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Google obliterated their search function for this

BREAKING— Last week, while Israel re-escalated its genocide in Gaza, Google Cloud acquired Israeli start-up Wiz, signaling Google's continued investment in Israel and its commitment to genocide profiteering.

AI continues to perform disappointingly in the commercial market. Musk wants to make the government run on AI, which would save the industry and marry its existence to the inner workings of the federal system. There, AI's poor performance (as in, screwing people over) would be a feature, not a bug.

@bedoyaftc.bsky.social: “Because Mr. Bezos, Mr. Musk, Mr. Zuckerberg, I am actively suing or enforcing court orders against all three of them, and so I think we need to ask ourselves, who does this help? Does this help people trying to make rent, or does it help the kind of billionaires?"

all LLM AI is intrinsically fascist. both the process of creating it is fascist, and it's express purpose is as well. it's mass scale violation of the working class in order to commit erasure, replacement, and round about enslavement of the workers for the sake of their own destruction & even this.

In 1948, Zionist militias established a Jewish state on Palestinian land, instituted a military occupation over Palestinians, and over decades stole increasingly large swaths of Palestinian land to control and mandated a system of Jewish legal supremacy — apartheid.

The total and expanding devastation in Gaza is a result of Zionism. Zionism, in the words of its founders, is an explicitly “colonial” ideology.

Understanding how we got to this horrific moment in history — the US giving unconditional support and funding for the Israeli government to massacre Palestinians — requires a commitment to clarity about how we got here.

At least 410 Palestinians have been reported killed by hospitals. The breakdown by age group is as follows: ➤ 174 children killed ➤ 89 women killed ➤ 32 elderly individuals killed ➤ 109 men killed

REPORT: Information from the Ministry of Health database reveals that 73% of those killed in Israeli strikes today are children, women, or the elderly.

URGENT ACTION ALERT: Over 400 Palestinians murdered overnight as Israel and the US intensify their genocide in Gaza. Read our full action alert: loom.ly/eyUy0qM

However, if you’re looking for a glimmer of hope, I’d like to point to the No Tech For Apartheid ( @notechforapartheid.bsky.social ) campaign of workers trying to pressure Google and Amazon to divest from Israel

And your main alternatives are run by Microsoft and Google. Both of whom also have massive defense contracts to provide tech that’s used to spy on and murder people all over the world. “The cloud” was a mistake 🙃

And as a worker if you join a company that uses AWS, congrats. You’re now using AWS. Most companies don’t move to different cloud providers because it’s tremendously expensive to do so.