Microsoft headquarters goes to insurance after activists take over the Brad Smith office

The demonstrators stormed the headquarters of Microsoft Redmond on Monday and made it in the office of President Brad Smith in Building 34, forcing temporary insurance. It was reported that the “Nozure for Apartheid” group lived in their sit -in on Twitch, raising banners, chanting “Brad Smith, you cannot hide, you support genocide!” He published a fake legal summons accusing Smith of “crimes against humanity.”

according to freedomThe protest included both active Microsoft workers and former employees who were expelled for the previous activity. On Monday, the escalation of months of protests on Microsoft cloud contracts with Israel, including recent arrests at the company’s headquarters.

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accident Achieving the guardian The disclosure of Israel uses Microsoft services to store data from millions of calls every day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Mirrors Tactics Corporation today from Google employees for more than a year. In April 2024, nine Google workers organized coordinated protests through New York and California offices, with five CEO of Google Cloud Thomas Kurian for nine hours. They wrote demands on his white board and wore “Googler against genocide”.

The Google demonstrators targeted the NIMBUS project, a $ 1.2 billion contract with Amazon, providing a government and Israel military with cloud computing tools and artificial intelligence tools. Employers’ sit -ins and arrests have been placed both on the live on Twitch; Three days later, 28 employees were involved in these protests Firing.