Google workers in California and New York are planning a sit-in protest of the company’s ties to Israel on Tuesday, organizers from “No Tech for Apartheid” tell Gizmodo. The protestors demand their company drop Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract held by Google and Amazon to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli government and military.
Part of Tuesday’s No Tech for Apartheid protest is about reinstating Eddie Hatfield. Google fired Hatfield, a 23-year-old software engineer, who interrupted an executive’s presentation last month by yelling “No tech for apartheid!” at an Israeli tech conference in New York. A Google spokesperson told The Verge that Hatfield was fired for interfering with a company-sponsored event, not for the specific thing the employee yelled.