Protesting Project Nimbus: employee organising to end Google’s contract with Israel w/ Dr.Kate Sim

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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Kate Sim, one of the core organisers of the Google Worker Sit-In Against Project Nimbus.

Dr. Kate Sim was recently fired, alongside almost 50 other employees, from Google after helping organize a sit-in protesting Project Nimbus, a joint contract between Google and Amazon to provide technology to the Israeli government and military. In this episode, Alix and Dr. Sim discuss technology-enabled violence, Dr. Sim's work in trust and safety, and Google's cancelled project Maven. They also talk about Dr. Sim's journey into protesting Project Nimbus, the many other voices fighting against the contract, and how Big Tech often obfuscates its responsibility in perpetuating violence. In the end, we arrive at a common lesson: solidarity is our main hope for change.

This episode is hosted by Alix Dunn and our guest is Dr. Kate Sim.

Further Reading

• No Tech For Apartheid
• What is Project Nimbus, and why are Google workers protesting Israel deal?
• Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon
• The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
• 3 Years After the Project Maven Uproar, Google Cozies to the Pentagon
• How Big Tech and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex
• Google Fired Us for Protesting Its Complicity in the War on Gaza. But We Won’t Be Silenced.
• Computer Says Maybe Newsletter - Protesting Project Nimbus