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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

this inspiring labor resistance coming from Google's own ranks is giving the Pentagon pause in its ongoing negotiations with Google leadership. worker power works! if you or someone you know works at Google, consider getting involved: www.notechforapartheid.com @notechforapartheid.bsky.social

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

DeepMind and Research employees, including Chief Scientist Jeff Dean (responding to grassroots pressure from employees), recently signed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic's case against their designation of a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon.

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

the www.googlers-against-ice.com petition recently cleared 1,500 Google worker signatories in under two months. the signatories are demanding transparency about Google's contracts with ICE and essential worker protections. catch a handful of us at SF #nokings tomorrow.

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I started organizing with my co-workers in @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and am still a volunteer external member to this day. here's what's been going on recently: 🧵

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

once I fully reckoned with how my labor was being used, there was no turning back. it became impossible to spend any more time caring about a promotion or my next research paper when my bosses were leasing Gemini to criminal militaries.

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

at DeepMind, my research was upstream of Gemini's fact-finding capabilities -- the same capabilities being used to supercharge target acquisition for Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the Pentagon's bombings in Iran, Venezuela, and the Caribbean, and ICE's illegal raids throughout the U.S.

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

this month, I was on the cover of TIME alongside 8 other professionals who are using their knowledge and positions to resist the disastrous impacts of "AI" tech. I was glad to represent the Google chapter of @notechforapartheid.bsky.social as one of the few x-workers still involved in the campaign.

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Harriet’s Dreams @harrietsdreams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Tonight at 6:30PM (virtual) w/ @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and @claudiajonesschool.bsky.social Surveillance has long been used to monitor, criminalize, and control our communities. Join us for a teach-in on how these systems operate and how we can protect ourselves. Join: bit.ly/BLOCKISHOTDC

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Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 04/03/2026

💥BREAKING💥St. Louis service workers won’t let the bosses drown out our voices 🗣️ #MOworkers, @sbworkersunited.org members, and community allies are gathering for the Food Service Workers’ Town Hall because we’re serious about demanding a real voice on the job — and across the whole industry!

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Remember, ICE wouldn't be able to terrorize civilians without the cooperation of Big Tech. A new @wired.com investigation breaks down just how much it relies on computing power from companies like Amazon.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Yesterday, our #GooglersAgainstICE petition opposing Google’s partnerships with DHS/ICE/CBP hit 1,400 signatures. This powerful & growing response from Google workers represents widespread anger with leadership’s collusion with ICE’s horrific detention-deportation machine.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We represent groups of workers from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Our organizations typically focus on a range of issues, from better workplace protections to the pursuit of environmental justice and the demilitarization of our technology. This is our first statement together.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As workers who make these companies run, here are our demands: Executive leadership at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon must reject the Pentagon’s advances and provide workers with transparency about contracts with other repressive state agencies including DHS, CBP, and ICE.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Our employers are already complicit in providing their technologies to power mass atrocities and war crimes; capitulating to the Pentagon’s intimidation will only further implicate our labor in violence and repression.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We are writing to urge our own companies to also refuse to comply should they or the frontier labs they invest in enter into further contracts with the Pentagon.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This intimidation is an ultimatum: AI companies can either agree to the Pentagon’s terms, or be designated a “supply chain risk,” or forced to provide the technology through the Defense Production Act.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We are speaking out today because the Pentagon is demanding that Anthropic abandon two major safety guardrails for Claude, which is the only frontier AI model currently deployed in classified Department of War operations.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 26/02/2026

Anyways we knew this was coming. "Don't use AI for weapons systems" is a principle I care a lot about and I think it's more important every day

“As a Software Engineer in Google Cloud, it is horrifying to think that the code I write could be used by the Israeli Military in the first ever AI powered genocide,” said Google Cloud software engineer William Van Der Laar from Sunnyvale in a statement. “We did not come to Google to work on technology that kills. By engaging in this contract leadership has betrayed our trust, our AI Principles, and our humanity.”

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 26/02/2026

There have been a lot of significant moments like this that get a bit of press but kinda fly under the radar given how important they are to the future of humanity

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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons, surveillance

The company updated its 'Responsible AI' principles, which no longer includes a pledge to not use AI for weapons or surveillance.

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 11/12/2025

There are a LOT of other causes out there more worthy of your help right now. But if you are a tech worker or otherwise interested in trying to protect workers' right to organize, we would be grateful for your donation or a reshare. Litigation is expensive.

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Support the Fired 50 Google Workers' Legal Defense Fund

Dear Friends, Family, Coworkers, and Supporters,

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Billy @wavdl.blog · 26/02/2026

Tech workers like those at @notechforapartheid.bsky.social have been warning about going down this path for quite a while now

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Truly eye-popping AI lobbying states from @publiccitizen.bsky.social's latest report. A quarter of all lobbyists worked on behalf of AI last year, and the number of data center lobbyists is up over 650% since 2020.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

so inspired by my former co-workers and current co-organizers for leading the charge against Google Cloud for hosting data and AI for CBP and ICE theintercept.com/2025/04/03/g...

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Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border

Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for surveillance, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

No Tech for Apartheid is building labor power against technology fueling surveillance, apartheid, genocide, militarism, and state violence—from the U.S. to Palestine. Are you a Google or Amazon worker? Join us: solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This work is urgent. And workers have a unique postionality to resist. That's why we’re coming together as Google workers to demand an end to this disgraceful use of our labor. We welcome all Google workers join us and sign our petition at www.googlers-against-ice.com

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Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Google execs have contracted with CBP to embed machine learning technology into existing Elbit watchtowers along the U.S.-Mexico border wall, supplied cloud services for Palantir's immigrationOS deportation platform, & willingly turned over private user information directly to ICE.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In this moment of rising global fascism, Google execs have sold this same palette of technologies to the DHS, ICE, & CBP to power its violent assault on immigrants and our cities at large.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Through Nimbus, Google provides air-gapped cloud services for Israeli weapons manufacturers, supplies object tracking, facial recognition technology, and Gemini, for Israel’s military operations. These technologies have powered Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza over the last 2+ years.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Across Israel’s genocidal apartheid system in Palestine and ICE raids in the U.S., Google tech is a throughline connecting our fights against oppression. That is why we must exercise our collective power as workers and resist inhumane use of this technology—the technology we labored to create.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We believe that no matter where Google technology is being deployed for surveillance, militarism, & state violence, we have a responsibility, as workers, to resist it.

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We started #NoTechForApartheid to organize against Project Nimbus, Google/Amazon’s $1B cloud contract w Israel We’re taking on ICE contracts now not only bc it’s the right thing to do but bc organizing that materially recognizes the interconnectedness of our fights only strengthens our movements

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No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"Amazon tech helped deport my neighbours." On Cyber Monday in New York, Amazon warehouse workers with Amazon Labor Union and tech workers with No Tech For Apartheid protested Amazon's complicity in Israel's genocide and ICE's deportations. #MakeAmazonPay

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I'm featured in TIME's new cover story "People vs AI", speaking about my experience working on Gemini during Google's backslide into AI hype and militarism. A few thoughts 🧵 time.com/7377579/ai-d...

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Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Thanks to organizing from groups like @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and @gcvoters.bsky.social, more people recognize that unregulated AI -- and the data centers that power it -- aren't likely to benefit regular people. time.com/7377579/ai-d...

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The People vs. AI

Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thank you @andrewrchow.bsky.social for this beautifully-written piece. It was a privilege to get the opportunity to elevate the incredible labor movement growing at Google, led by the workers in @notechforapartheid.bsky.social. (If you're a Googler and want to know more, my DMs are open!)

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

100+ more Google employees have signed since yesterday

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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Google employees who oppose their labor and comp being wrapped up in DHS contracts, sign googlers-against-ice.com and get organized with your co-workers!

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Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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.”

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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:

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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties

The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

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