Tag Archives: Protests

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Pro-Palestinian protests intensify across U.S. college campuses. Here’s where things stand.  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google layoffs: Ex-employees sacked over ‘Israel protests’ claim ‘Sundar Pichai can say he doesn’t want that but…’  Hindustan Times Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google fires more workers over in-office protests  Fox Business Google has fired 50 employees after protests over Israel cloud deal, organizers say  CNN Google fires employees in sign of pushback to employee activism  Fortune Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google fires more workers for ‘disruptive’ protests over contract with Israel  The Times of Israel Google firings: More workers out after pro-Palestinian protests  USA TODAY Google CEO stresses ‘this is a business’ after in-office protesters fired  Fox Business Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google fires 20 more employees involved in protests of Israeli contract  San Francisco Chronicle Google fires more workers who protested its deal with Israel  The Washington Post Google firing office protesters shows tide is turning as ‘bosses are losing patience’ with activist employees  Fox News Source link

U.S. stocks descended Monday morning as unrest in China over the nation’s restrictive COVID controls weighed on global sentiment and Wall Street returned from a holiday weekend. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) sank 0.6%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell 100 points, or 0.3%. The tchnology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was off by 0.6%. The moves come after an up week of modest gains for stocks. The S&P 500 rose 1.5%, the Dow 1.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite 0.7% over the three and a… Source link

Illustration: Quartz Anti-government protests flared in several Chinese cities and on college campuses over the weekend. But the country’s most widespread show of public dissent in decades will have to manage without a crucial communication tool, because Apple restricted its use in China earlier this month. AirDrop, the file-sharing feature on iPhones and other Apple devices, has helped protestors in many authoritarian countries evade censorship. That’s because AirDrop relies on direct… Source link

Ariel Koren, a Google employee who became a face of worker protests against the company’s contract with the Israeli government, announced her resignation yesterday. The Jewish marketing manager says she faced retaliation from management and some colleagues for expressing pro-Palestinian views within the company. In October she joined other Google and Amazon employees in public opposition to Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract for Google and Amazon to provide cloud computing to Israel,… Source link

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement and public safety officials in the United States that a prolonged trucker convoy protesting vaccine mandates could begin on Feb. 13, when the Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The warning of a trucker protest similar to the one that has brought Ottawa, Canada, to a virtual halt, states that “the convoy could severely disrupt transportation, federal government, and law enforcement operations through gridlock and potential… Source link

Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet‘s Google plans to shut down a long-running program aimed at entry-level engineers from underrepresented backgrounds after participants said it enforced “systemic pay inequities,” according to internal correspondence seen by Reuters. Google confirmed it was replacing the Engineering Residency with a new initiative, saying it is “always evaluating programs to ensure they evolve and adapt over time… Source link