John,

This is wild. Over 1,000 Amazon and Google workers joined together to demand their employers back out of Project Nimbus – a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud infrastructure and technology to the Israeli military.¹

Tell Amazon and Google to stop fueling militaries.

Under Project Nimbus, the technology provided by Google and Amazon makes military operations more efficient in the oppression and occupation of the Palenstinan people. This is not limited to Israel. The technology giants have rapidly become the new generation of military profiteers. Amazon powers ICE’s detention machine and partners with over 2,000 local police departments, giving them surveillance technology that enables mass scale policing used to monitor everyone everywhere. And Google sold artificial intelligence to the Department of Defense.^2,3,4,5

Amazon and Google pay lip service to human rights and justice, even going as far as making rights commitments. Meanwhile, they’re powering the infrastructure and surveillance state for cops, federal policing, and militaries. Tell Big Tech to cut ties with tech militarization.

TAKE ACTION

We have risen up against Big Tech before—and won. In 2020, Microsoft pulled all funding from Israeli facial recognition firm AnyVision after sustained pushback.⁶ This year, people across the country campaigned as a unified #EyesOnAmazon coalition pressured Amazon to put an extended moratorium on sale of facial recognition technology to police.⁷

We can win again. All we need is a grassroots mobilization in solidarity with workers saying no to Amazon and Google’s powering of state violence.

Click here to join us.

In solidarity,

Ayele, Fight for the Future

Footnotes:

1. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/12/google-amazon-workers-condemn-project-nimbus-israeli-military-contract

2. Crescendo. https://bigtechsellswar.com/#

3. MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/22/139639/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration-crackdown/

4. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/31/22258856/amazon-ring-partners-police-fire-security-privacy-cameras

5. CNET. https://www.cnet.com/news/google-project-maven-drone-protect-resign/

6. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-anyvision/microsoft-to-divest-anyvision-stake-end-face-recognition-investing-idUSKBN21E3BA

7. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-amazon-extends-moratorium-police-use-facial-recognition-software-2021-05-18/

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