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DEVELOPING: Seattle’s “Workers Intifada” — a coalition of radical tech activists — has occupied the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith. Inside, they read out “charges” against Smith, accusing Microsoft of genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing. Their demands: cut ties with Israel, call for an end to the... show more

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⚡️ BREAKING: Microsoft employees and other demonstrators with the No Azure for Apartheid movement are currently occupying the office of company president Brad Smith. Workers say they have re-established a “Liberated Zone” inside Microsoft’s executive Building 34, renaming it the Mai Ubeid Building in honor of a Palestinian software engineer killed in an Israeli airstrike. Bloomberg reported earlier today that Microsoft has spent the past year trying to crush employee dissent over its ties to Israel’s war on Gaza — including enlisting the FBI, working with police, and censoring internal posts mentioning “Gaza.” The company has suspended and fired workers who spoke out, while employees have continued to stage disruptions, from mass emails to sit-ins and viral protests. The employee-led movement is protesting Microsoft profiting from and enabling Israel’s atrocities in Palestine through its Azure cloud and AI tools. Despite repression, workers say they won’t stop until Microsoft cuts its ties to Israel’s military. According to the organizers’ statement, today’s action included deploying noisemakers into the atrium, unfurling banners, and delivering a “People’s Court Summons” to Brad Smith. Their demands include: cutting ties with Israel, calling for an end to genocide and forced starvation, reparations for Palestinians, and ending workplace discrimination. Video shows the demonstrators in the Microsoft C-suite reading their statement. Shared on Twitch (link in reply).

⚡️ BREAKING: Microsoft employees and other demonstrators with the No Azure for Apartheid movement are currently occupying the office of company president Brad Smith. Workers say they have re-established a “Liberated Zone” inside Microsoft’s executive Building 34, renaming it the Mai Ubeid Building in honor of a Palestinian software engineer killed in an Israeli airstrike. Bloomberg reported earlier today that Microsoft has spent the past year trying to crush employee dissent over its ties to Israel’s war on Gaza — including enlisting the FBI, working with police, and censoring internal posts mentioning “Gaza.” The company has suspended and fired workers who spoke out, while employees have continued to stage disruptions, from mass emails to sit-ins and viral protests. The employee-led movement is protesting Microsoft profiting from and enabling Israel’s atrocities in Palestine through its Azure cloud and AI tools. Despite repression, workers say they won’t stop until Microsoft cuts its ties to Israel’s military. According to the organizers’ statement, today’s action included deploying noisemakers into the atrium, unfurling banners, and delivering a “People’s Court Summons” to Brad Smith. Their demands include: cutting ties with Israel, calling for an end to genocide and forced starvation, reparations for Palestinians, and ending workplace discrimination. Video shows the demonstrators in the Microsoft C-suite reading their statement. Shared on Twitch (link in reply).

Drop Site

440,276 views • 11 months ago

Current and former Microsoft workers staged a sit-in at Building 34—renaming it the Mai Ubeid Building—and occupied President Brad Smith’s office with banners, chants, and a “crimes against humanity” summons. Outside, supporters unveiled a scroll of 2,000+ signatures on the No Azure for Apartheid petition, vowing to sustain their protests until Microsoft cuts ties with Israel and ends its role in the genocide. This marks the second attempt to establish a 'Liberated Zone' encampment at Microsoft, after the first was violently dismantled by police.

Current and former Microsoft workers staged a sit-in at Building 34—renaming it the Mai Ubeid Building—and occupied President Brad Smith’s office with banners, chants, and a “crimes against humanity” summons. Outside, supporters unveiled a scroll of 2,000+ signatures on the No Azure for Apartheid petition, vowing to sustain their protests until Microsoft cuts ties with Israel and ends its role in the genocide. This marks the second attempt to establish a 'Liberated Zone' encampment at Microsoft, after the first was violently dismantled by police.

BreakThrough News

47,848 views • 11 months ago

Coming soon to a workplace near you: the “Workers’ Intifada.” This week, they turned Microsoft President Brad Smith’s office into a protest stage—occupying it in a sit-in until police hauled them out. Take Anna Hattle as an example. She was arrested at the University of Washington Engineering building takeover, at the Microsoft encampment, and now again at Smith’s office sit-in. Last I heard, she hasn't even been fired from Microsoft yet.

Coming soon to a workplace near you: the “Workers’ Intifada.” This week, they turned Microsoft President Brad Smith’s office into a protest stage—occupying it in a sit-in until police hauled them out. Take Anna Hattle as an example. She was arrested at the University of Washington Engineering building takeover, at the Microsoft encampment, and now again at Smith’s office sit-in. Last I heard, she hasn't even been fired from Microsoft yet.

Stu Smith

37,971 views • 11 months ago

My discussion with Microsoft President Brad Smith, about the importance of teaching computer science, changing the focus from "coding" to "AI", and @Codeorg's call to action around introducing every student to an Hour of AI. Calling all educators:

My discussion with Microsoft President Brad Smith, about the importance of teaching computer science, changing the focus from "coding" to "AI", and @Codeorg's call to action around introducing every student to an Hour of AI. Calling all educators:

Hadi Partovi

25,956 views • 1 year ago

NEW: Microsoft President Brad Smith held a press briefing after today’s No Azure for Apartheid occupation of his office. Asked about Microsoft’s relationship with the Israeli military, Smith said: “The vast majority of what Microsoft does for the Israeli military is protect the cybersecurity of the state of Israel… That is our primary focus. There are some other activities as well. That involve the use of Azure for storage for example, for processing of data.” On August 6, The Guardian, with +972 Magazine and Local Call, revealed that Israel’s Unit 8200 has used Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze massive volumes of Palestinian phone call data — one of the largest surveillance systems ever built for a civilian population. The data was then used to plan airstrikes on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Leaked documents show Microsoft executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, knew Unit 8200 was archiving “a million calls an hour” with custom Azure infrastructure. The revelations forced Microsoft into a second external investigation over whether its work with Israel violates its own human rights policies.

NEW: Microsoft President Brad Smith held a press briefing after today’s No Azure for Apartheid occupation of his office. Asked about Microsoft’s relationship with the Israeli military, Smith said: “The vast majority of what Microsoft does for the Israeli military is protect the cybersecurity of the state of Israel… That is our primary focus. There are some other activities as well. That involve the use of Azure for storage for example, for processing of data.” On August 6, The Guardian, with +972 Magazine and Local Call, revealed that Israel’s Unit 8200 has used Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze massive volumes of Palestinian phone call data — one of the largest surveillance systems ever built for a civilian population. The data was then used to plan airstrikes on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Leaked documents show Microsoft executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, knew Unit 8200 was archiving “a million calls an hour” with custom Azure infrastructure. The revelations forced Microsoft into a second external investigation over whether its work with Israel violates its own human rights policies.

Drop Site

177,704 views • 11 months ago

⚡️JUST IN: Microsoft engineer disrupts 50th anniversary, accuses company of aiding Israel by providing AI technology directly contributing to genocide in Gaza Ibtihal Abu Saad, a Moroccan Harvard graduate and Microsoft engineer, disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to confront AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, accusing Microsoft of enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza through its Azure cloud services, servers, and military tech contracts. “Shame on you. You are a war profiteer,” she shouted. “Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you celebrate when Microsoft is killing children.”

⚡️JUST IN: Microsoft engineer disrupts 50th anniversary, accuses company of aiding Israel by providing AI technology directly contributing to genocide in Gaza Ibtihal Abu Saad, a Moroccan Harvard graduate and Microsoft engineer, disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to confront AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, accusing Microsoft of enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza through its Azure cloud services, servers, and military tech contracts. “Shame on you. You are a war profiteer,” she shouted. “Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you celebrate when Microsoft is killing children.”

Suppressed News.

1,146,643 views • 1 year ago

“We're here to say we refuse the bombing of civilians, we refuse starvation, we refuse war crimes, we refuse the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.” Israeli anti-war activists clashed with police during a demonstration against the war on Gaza in Tel Aviv on Sunday.

“We're here to say we refuse the bombing of civilians, we refuse starvation, we refuse war crimes, we refuse the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.” Israeli anti-war activists clashed with police during a demonstration against the war on Gaza in Tel Aviv on Sunday.

Middle East Eye

29,885 views • 1 year ago

NEW: Microsoft Engineer Disrupts Nadella Keynote Over Genocide Complicity Joe Lopez, a member of the No Azure for Apartheid campaign and a firmware engineer in Azure’s hardware division, interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s Build conference keynote on Monday. In a letter published later, he explains his journey of political awakening and condemns Microsoft for its direct complicity in “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity.” Lopez said he initially tried to stay informed and take small actions—donating, signing petitions—while continuing his work at Microsoft. But after seeing fellow employees disrupt Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event and learning more about the company’s ties to Israel’s military, he began questioning his role. “Microsoft is killing kids? Is my work killing kids?” he wrote. What followed, he said, was a painful realization that Azure’s infrastructure was actively fueling a U.S.–Israeli “war machine” and the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza. He pointed to a recent company blog post—Microsoft’s first public response to the employee campaign—as a turning point. In that post, Microsoft defended its operations in Israel, citing an internal audit conducted by the company itself and an unnamed outside firm. The audit cleared Microsoft of wrongdoing, but Lopez called it “meaningless,” especially after the company admitted giving Israel’s Ministry of Defense “special access” to its cloud technologies “beyond the terms of our commercial agreements.” Lopez called out the complicity of top executives—including Mustafa Suleyman, Brad Smith, Kevin Scott, Scott Guthrie, and Satya Nadella—and their refusal to directly address the allegations. Calling on other workers to speak out or leave, he said he could no longer be part of a company helping “level cities and exterminate Palestinians.” “If leadership continues to ignore this demand, it won’t go unnoticed. The world has already woken up to our complicity,” he added.

NEW: Microsoft Engineer Disrupts Nadella Keynote Over Genocide Complicity Joe Lopez, a member of the No Azure for Apartheid campaign and a firmware engineer in Azure’s hardware division, interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s Build conference keynote on Monday. In a letter published later, he explains his journey of political awakening and condemns Microsoft for its direct complicity in “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity.” Lopez said he initially tried to stay informed and take small actions—donating, signing petitions—while continuing his work at Microsoft. But after seeing fellow employees disrupt Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event and learning more about the company’s ties to Israel’s military, he began questioning his role. “Microsoft is killing kids? Is my work killing kids?” he wrote. What followed, he said, was a painful realization that Azure’s infrastructure was actively fueling a U.S.–Israeli “war machine” and the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza. He pointed to a recent company blog post—Microsoft’s first public response to the employee campaign—as a turning point. In that post, Microsoft defended its operations in Israel, citing an internal audit conducted by the company itself and an unnamed outside firm. The audit cleared Microsoft of wrongdoing, but Lopez called it “meaningless,” especially after the company admitted giving Israel’s Ministry of Defense “special access” to its cloud technologies “beyond the terms of our commercial agreements.” Lopez called out the complicity of top executives—including Mustafa Suleyman, Brad Smith, Kevin Scott, Scott Guthrie, and Satya Nadella—and their refusal to directly address the allegations. Calling on other workers to speak out or leave, he said he could no longer be part of a company helping “level cities and exterminate Palestinians.” “If leadership continues to ignore this demand, it won’t go unnoticed. The world has already woken up to our complicity,” he added.

Drop Site

234,430 views • 1 year ago

🇵🇸 Pro-Palestine activists occupied the campus of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands to demand an end to ties with companies linked to the genocide in Gaza, full transparency of the military-linked research, and an end to intimidation and punishment of community members who speak out for Palestine and against the genocide.

🇵🇸 Pro-Palestine activists occupied the campus of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands to demand an end to ties with companies linked to the genocide in Gaza, full transparency of the military-linked research, and an end to intimidation and punishment of community members who speak out for Palestine and against the genocide.

BT Long Reads

11,633 views • 5 months ago

Intel, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, PayPal, Adobe, Meta, Apple, Pinterest… Tech workers in Silicon Valley are calling out the double standards of their former employers, who claim to defend human rights, except when it comes to Palestine. In an unprecedented crackdown on free speech, some have been sanctioned or fired simply for challenging tech executives. Others chose to resign, saying that US tech companies enable Israel to carry out war crimes in Gaza and across the Middle East. But they tell TRT World that Palestine is revolutionising the tech industry, and that employees are now willing to launch a workers’ intifada to challenge corporate greed

Intel, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, PayPal, Adobe, Meta, Apple, Pinterest… Tech workers in Silicon Valley are calling out the double standards of their former employers, who claim to defend human rights, except when it comes to Palestine. In an unprecedented crackdown on free speech, some have been sanctioned or fired simply for challenging tech executives. Others chose to resign, saying that US tech companies enable Israel to carry out war crimes in Gaza and across the Middle East. But they tell TRT World that Palestine is revolutionising the tech industry, and that employees are now willing to launch a workers’ intifada to challenge corporate greed

TRT World

31,760 views • 5 months ago

Less than a week before the Israeli government started the war with Iran, I spoke at a massive protest against the genocide in Gaza that the Italian opposition parties held in Rome. In front of 300,000 people in Rome, I called for the end of the genocide and war and for European governments to stop supporting Netanyahu as he continues to disregard international law and risk all of the region. Even after the expansion of the war and cycle of bloodshed by the war criminal Netanyahu, the same message still holds. Together, we will continue to fight against the genocide in Gaza that doesn't stop because of the war with Iran, against the regional war that is risking all of us and against the fascists all around the world, until we win!

Less than a week before the Israeli government started the war with Iran, I spoke at a massive protest against the genocide in Gaza that the Italian opposition parties held in Rome. In front of 300,000 people in Rome, I called for the end of the genocide and war and for European governments to stop supporting Netanyahu as he continues to disregard international law and risk all of the region. Even after the expansion of the war and cycle of bloodshed by the war criminal Netanyahu, the same message still holds. Together, we will continue to fight against the genocide in Gaza that doesn't stop because of the war with Iran, against the regional war that is risking all of us and against the fascists all around the world, until we win!

Iddo עידו عيدو

10,899 views • 1 year ago

Call it by its name, #Israel is committing Genocide in #Gaza with the support of #US #EU #UK - The War Crimes of the Far Right Israeli Regime are also the War Crimes of the US, the EU and the UK - Their criminal behaviour will not stop unless they are all held to account...

Call it by its name, #Israel is committing Genocide in #Gaza with the support of #US #EU #UK - The War Crimes of the Far Right Israeli Regime are also the War Crimes of the US, the EU and the UK - Their criminal behaviour will not stop unless they are all held to account...

Mick Wallace

298,912 views • 2 years ago

“Why Dave Smith and the “Anti-War Comics” Can’t Celebrate the End of the War” Watching Dave Smith flail away like a blind hitter going up against prime Pedro is lovely. He can’t admit the end to this war is good because Israel won yet another war THAT THEY DID NOT START… just like EVERY OTHER WAR IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY! Israel winning wars it did not start destroys Dave’s ENTIRE ideology. And this one is the coup de grace. Israel did not start this war. This war started on October 7th—on the holiday of Simchat Torah—with Palestinians committing genocide against Israelis and Israel. There is no better moral justification for engaging in war than responding to an act of genocide committed against your people. Yet, instead of responding in kind, Israel responded with the most moral war anybody has even seen. Ask John Spencer. The civilian to combatant death ratio is the best in history. And that was with Israel playing it on hardcore mode thanks to Yahya Sinwar planning the most diabolical of defenses: Have his terrorists infiltrate every facet of Gaza, utilize hospitals as command centers, use schools from which to shoot rockets, and store weapons caches underneath the bedrooms of children… all while denying Palestinians to use the protective bunkers and tunnel systems—larger than the London Tube system—instead ensuring only his terrorists could live there. Yahya Sinwar’s plan was to sacrifice all of the Palestinians… and Israel refused to comply. Rather, Israel insisted on two demands and never relented: (1) Return ALL hostages and (2) disband the terrorist entity RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GENOCIDE THAT STARTED THE WAR. Dave Smith can’t celebrate that. He can’t celebrate the return of the hostages. He can’t celebrate the end of hostilities… because he’s a sick, deranged, psychotic individual who would rather grasp onto his pathetic dystopian world view like a baby onto a bottle rather than confront the reality of this war. This war could’ve ended on October 8th. But Yahya Sinwar and the Palestinians craved this war. They DEMANDED it… and they got it… and they lost it. And that’s why Dave Smith can’t celebrate the end of this war. What a callous, cold-hearted *achem* comic

“Why Dave Smith and the “Anti-War Comics” Can’t Celebrate the End of the War” Watching Dave Smith flail away like a blind hitter going up against prime Pedro is lovely. He can’t admit the end to this war is good because Israel won yet another war THAT THEY DID NOT START… just like EVERY OTHER WAR IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY! Israel winning wars it did not start destroys Dave’s ENTIRE ideology. And this one is the coup de grace. Israel did not start this war. This war started on October 7th—on the holiday of Simchat Torah—with Palestinians committing genocide against Israelis and Israel. There is no better moral justification for engaging in war than responding to an act of genocide committed against your people. Yet, instead of responding in kind, Israel responded with the most moral war anybody has even seen. Ask John Spencer. The civilian to combatant death ratio is the best in history. And that was with Israel playing it on hardcore mode thanks to Yahya Sinwar planning the most diabolical of defenses: Have his terrorists infiltrate every facet of Gaza, utilize hospitals as command centers, use schools from which to shoot rockets, and store weapons caches underneath the bedrooms of children… all while denying Palestinians to use the protective bunkers and tunnel systems—larger than the London Tube system—instead ensuring only his terrorists could live there. Yahya Sinwar’s plan was to sacrifice all of the Palestinians… and Israel refused to comply. Rather, Israel insisted on two demands and never relented: (1) Return ALL hostages and (2) disband the terrorist entity RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GENOCIDE THAT STARTED THE WAR. Dave Smith can’t celebrate that. He can’t celebrate the return of the hostages. He can’t celebrate the end of hostilities… because he’s a sick, deranged, psychotic individual who would rather grasp onto his pathetic dystopian world view like a baby onto a bottle rather than confront the reality of this war. This war could’ve ended on October 8th. But Yahya Sinwar and the Palestinians craved this war. They DEMANDED it… and they got it… and they lost it. And that’s why Dave Smith can’t celebrate the end of this war. What a callous, cold-hearted achem comic

Jake Donnelly

37,458 views • 10 months ago

Residents of 🇷🇺 Belgorod complain about Ukrainian drones constantly flying overhead, but no one wants to admit that they just need to end the war and genocide against Ukrainians to make it all stop. They are just unhappy that the CONSEQUENCES of THEIR war cause them discomfort.

Residents of 🇷🇺 Belgorod complain about Ukrainian drones constantly flying overhead, but no one wants to admit that they just need to end the war and genocide against Ukrainians to make it all stop. They are just unhappy that the CONSEQUENCES of THEIR war cause them discomfort.

Victoria

54,020 views • 2 years ago

Department of War Department of War 🇺🇸 CIO Katie Arrington Katie Arrington confirmed to me at the Pentagon this week that Microsoft was forced to stop using Chinese nationals for Pentagon tech support following my July investigation and disclosures by Navy whistleblower Tom Schiller. Arrington admitted that Microsoft’s Government Azure Platform created security vulnerabilities, noting that Microsoft has now restricted access exclusively to U.S. citizens and cleared personnel when it comes to tech support on their US Government contracts. Although the DOW claims a third party audit paid for by Microsoft found no malicious activity, Arrington’s statements prove that my reporting was the decisive factor that motivated the Department of War Department of War 🇺🇸 to take action to close this back door for the CCP to meddle in our national security and secret Department of War Cyber Systems.

Department of War Department of War 🇺🇸 CIO Katie Arrington Katie Arrington confirmed to me at the Pentagon this week that Microsoft was forced to stop using Chinese nationals for Pentagon tech support following my July investigation and disclosures by Navy whistleblower Tom Schiller. Arrington admitted that Microsoft’s Government Azure Platform created security vulnerabilities, noting that Microsoft has now restricted access exclusively to U.S. citizens and cleared personnel when it comes to tech support on their US Government contracts. Although the DOW claims a third party audit paid for by Microsoft found no malicious activity, Arrington’s statements prove that my reporting was the decisive factor that motivated the Department of War Department of War 🇺🇸 to take action to close this back door for the CCP to meddle in our national security and secret Department of War Cyber Systems.

Laura Loomer

200,992 views • 8 months ago

🇵🇸🇧🇷 Brazilian movements demand Lula cut ties with Israel Thousands took to the streets of São Paulo in the largest mobilization for Palestine in Brazilian history. Reaffirming their solidarity with the Palestinian people, Brazilian workers, students, youth, landless rural workers, and political leaders called on the government of Lula da Silva to cut all ties with Israel and end its complicity with Israel's war crimes. Peoples Dispatch spoke to members of MST Oficial, Levante Popular da Juventude 🇧🇷 and Movimento Brasil Popular about why they were marching.

🇵🇸🇧🇷 Brazilian movements demand Lula cut ties with Israel Thousands took to the streets of São Paulo in the largest mobilization for Palestine in Brazilian history. Reaffirming their solidarity with the Palestinian people, Brazilian workers, students, youth, landless rural workers, and political leaders called on the government of Lula da Silva to cut all ties with Israel and end its complicity with Israel's war crimes. Peoples Dispatch spoke to members of MST Oficial, Levante Popular da Juventude 🇧🇷 and Movimento Brasil Popular about why they were marching.

Peoples Dispatch

11,394 views • 1 year ago

🇵🇸 🇮🇸 “We are witnessing now crimes against humanity and war crimes in broad daylight. What appears before us is systematic ethnic cleansing. This needs to end. We need an immediate ceasefire, full humanitarian access, and the unconditional release of all hostages. We need peace for all the innocent people.”

🇵🇸 🇮🇸 “We are witnessing now crimes against humanity and war crimes in broad daylight. What appears before us is systematic ethnic cleansing. This needs to end. We need an immediate ceasefire, full humanitarian access, and the unconditional release of all hostages. We need peace for all the innocent people.”

State of Palestine

11,333 views • 10 months ago