‘Microsoft is an active partner in the genocide!’: Inside the tech worker revolt for Palestine

Working People

Tech workers at the heart of Microsoft are waging one of the most significant and under-covered labor battles in the US right now. For the last two weeks, members of the No Azure for Apartheid coalition, including current and former tech workers at Microsoft and community allies, have been taking bold, continuing, and escalating actions to disrupt business as usual in solidarity with Palestinians facing genocide and in protest of Microsoft’s contracts with the Israeli military to provide tech that Israel uses to surveil, kill, and retroactively justify the killing of Palestinians. Those actions have included establishing a “liberated zone” encampment and even occupying executives’ offices at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA. In this on-the-ground episode of Working People, recorded at Microsoft headquarters on Aug. 19-20, we take you to the front lines of the No Azure for Apartheid struggle.Additional links/info:

• No Azure for Apartheid Instagram and Linktree
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “Cops violently dismantle Palestine encampment at Microsoft HQ, arrest protestors”
• Tom Warren, The Verge, “Microsoft employee arrested at headquarters while protesting Israel contracts”
• Tom Warren, The Verge, “Microsoft locks down a building after protesters get inside president’s office”
• Harry Davies & Yuval Abraham, The Guardian, “‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians”

Featured Music:

• Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song

Credits:

• Studio Production: Maximillian Alvarez
• Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor