Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, April 18th,

2024, I'm Brian McCullough today.

Google has fired 28 employees for political protests yesterday.

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Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel yesterday, quoting the

verge. The fired employees were involved in protesting Google's involvement in

Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government cloud contract that also includes Amazon.

Some of them occupied the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Currian 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 Rachau,

Google's head of global security, said that, quote,

behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.

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

If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies,

think again.

The company takes this extremely seriously and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior up to and including termination end quote.

In a response statement, the No Tech for Apart apartheid group behind the protest called

Google's firings a quote flagrant act of retaliation in the three years

that we have been organizing against Project Nimbus we have yet to hear from a

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