3. Antony Loewenstein who wrote the must read book The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, which Verso has made available FOR FREE as an e-book. Get yours here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2684-the-palestine-laboratory
The Palestine Laboratory

Antony: "Its not just using Palestine as a laboratory, but its the idea and the ideology of getting away with it.

Israel has no real accountability. That has been the case for decades.

Even the nations that are publicly critical of Israel, are desperate for their surveillance and spyware tech."

Caroline Hunter on her anti apartheid activism. "I grew up in segregated New Orleans." "I was a bit of a 10th grade nerd."

"As a Black person you are told to work twice as hard. Graduated highschool in 64 during the civil rights movement. Organized my first protest in college. Graduated and joined Polaroid. I took a job in liberal Cambridge MA. Polaroid was considered a "liberal" organization. But it was not unionized."

"On the bulletin board, there is an ID card for the only Black person in Polaroid."

"I didn't know Polaroid was in South Africa...I looked up South African apartheid...did..book research, to confirm that the Black population was essentially controlled by passbook laws."

Caroline Hunter talking about her anti-apartheid activism. Presented Polaroid corporation with 3 demands, one of them being Polaroid denounce apartheid in the US and South Africa, and Polaroid divest from South Africa."
Whoa. Polaroid deliberately hires your uncles, cousins, siblings etc and is not unionized. They use that as leverage if something happens.
"We started the divestment movement in the US. A lot of blood sweat and tears."

"Israel has gone from denying its an apartheid state to saying yes we are an apartheid state. The ID card has been replaced with digital technology.

The Polaroid ID was used in South Africa, it was used in Vietnam, carried into other conflicts."

"The call to boycott South Africa worked."
She is amazing. Damn.

Ariel talking about project Nimbus. Google was intentionally extremely discrete about the project. They weren't speaking about it publicly, event internally, it was obvious that the company was trying to sweep this work under the rug.

Google is providing powerful cloud services to the government & military that is violating human rights on a regular bases...Google & Amazon have no rights to determine which government departments are beneficiaries....several military agencies are beneficiaries.

Antony talking about how offensive it is to believe that it is Silicon Valley overlords who are going to bring "humane warfare" to the world. There needs to be a highlighting of companies working on the military industrial complex. "There are companies that are directly battle testing weapons in Gaza right now."
Caroline: "Boycott campaigns are education campaigns."
Caroline: Talks about trying to suppress Angela Davis's talk years ago.
The call is to focus on project Nimbus, regardless of where you work. Tomorrow there is a mass call for all tech workers.

Ariel A GOOGLE INTERN WAS KILLED BY ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE AND SILENCE FROM GOOGLE!!!

Damn.

Ariel ends with a mass call for tech workers which will be announced to morrow. Go to this website: bit.ly/NOTAMassCall
There's an introductory virtual meeting of #NoTechForApartheid tomorrow. Go here to check it out: bit.ly/NOTAMassCall