Ahead of its annual shareholders meeting on December 5, Microsoft is coming under mounting pressure to reconsider its relationship with the Israeli military, which has used the tech giant’s products to carry out the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. In an open letter to the company released on Tuesday, December 2, an international coalition of legal aid groups said…
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed that the ignorance of young people and their consumption of content on social media is responsible for their opposition to Israel and its genocide in Gaza, blaming “made up” propaganda on Tuesday while speaking at a conference held by a far right Israeli publication. In remarks on Tuesday, Clinton said that the sentiments among young…
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Around 20,000 people attended tech giant Microsoft’s Ignite conference in San Francisco last month. Current and former tech workers and Microsoft employees with the No Azure for Apartheid movement were also there to disrupt business as usual, and to continue their ongoing protests of Microsoft’s contracts with Israel’s government and its complicity in the war crimes Israel has committed against Palestinians. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Patrick Fort, a Microsoft senior engineer who resigned in protest at the Ignite conference, and Hossam Nasr, a No Azure for Apartheid organizer who was fired by Microsoft.
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No Azure for Apartheid Instagram and Linktree
Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “Microsoft cancels Israeli spy unit access after tech worker revolt”
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Maximillian Alvarez:
Around 20,000 people attended Tech Giant Microsoft’s Ignite Conference in San Francisco last month. But current and former tech workers and Microsoft employees with the no Azure for Apartheid movement were also there to disrupt business as usual and to continue their ongoing protests of Microsoft’s contracts with Israel’s government and its complicity in the war crimes that Israel has committed against Palestinians. Here’s a video that was posted from the No Azure for Apartheid Instagram account, which shows the moment that one brave tech worker called out Microsoft’s CEO of commercial business, Judson Altoff, in front of the entire conference. Take a look.
Patrick Fort:
Hey, Judson, the point of the children of God is on our hands. Judson, I worked at Microsoft for seven years and I resigned today Microsoft Disappointing Israel genocide, free
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