“Only if we care about each other, we're going to organize to defend human rights, not only here, but everywhere in the world.”Ĭounter protesters were also present. “When you think about what's happening in Palestine, and how people are literally being forcibly displaced from their communities from their lands, there's nothing else we can do but support this campaign,” Bendezu said.
D2P member Roxana Bendezú said that issues affecting Palestinians are also tied to the struggles that Durham residents have historically faced. “That's the thing that let us kind of punch above our weight a little bit and get on the bill with New York and San Francisco.”ĭemilitarize! Durham2Palestine, a local advocacy group, helped organize the protest. “I think the community that we have here in Durham has a history of resisting oppression,” he said. While protestors were also rallying in San Francisco, Seattle and New York City the same day, Pedersen said that Durham’s protest was organized very quickly with the assistance of national and local partners. “We want to build technologies that are core to our values, we need to create an institution that is accountable to us. You work on things that everyone uses, your actions affect how millions, even billions of people, interact with technology on a daily basis,” AWU member Bjorn Pedersen said. “If you work for Google, you're very familiar with the impact that you can have. Those projects, the workers wrote, were “part of a disturbing pattern of militarization, lack of transparency and avoidance of oversight.” Department of Defense, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and state and local police departments. The letter pointed out that the two companies have pursued contracts with the U.S. To build that brighter future, the companies we work for need to stop contracting with any and all militarized organizations in the U.S. “We envision a future where technology brings people together and makes life better for everyone. In October 2021, hundreds of Google and Amazon employees signed an anonymous letter calling on their companies to cut all ties to Project Nimbus and the Israeli military. “Tech workers don’t want their labor being used to surveil Palestinians, expand illegal Israeli settlements, and inflict violence on Palestinians living under military occupation,” a flier passed out at the protest by Alphabet Workers Union, which represents Google employees, read. Google and Amazon signed the deal while Israel was conducting airstrikes in civilian areas of the Gaza Strip and forcibly evicting several Palestinian families from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
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