Enlarge / A Project Nimbus cloud contract with the Israeli government has some Google and Amazon workers upset. (credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images) Hundreds of Google workers and their supporters gathered near the company’s downtown San Francisco offices Thursday, raising signs that read “No Tech for Apartheid” and filling the air with chants of “Tech […]
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Behind Google Worker Protests of an Israeli Government Cloud Deal
Ariel Koren and fellow Googlers feared the company’s technology could be used against Palestinians. She says pressure from managers forced her to resign. https://media.wired.com/photos/630eaff0567860ab6c66c662/master/pass/Ariel-Koren-Project-Nimbus-Q&A-Business-1359325770.jpg
‘More to come!’ Ex-Trump supporter warns violence in US to continue after deadly protests
Mr Walsh, who ran against Trump in the 2020 presidential race and used to support the outgoing President ahead of his election in 2016, told ITV Good Morning Britain he “wept” as he watched the US Capitol Building being stormed by Trump supporters. He warned “more violence” may be coming unless Donald Trump stopped inciting […]
‘Whitewashed’ Nailed It! Thumbnail Quickly Removed by Netflix After Co-Host Nicole Byer Protests
What is the opposite of “Nailed it“? Netflix on Tuesday evening promptly removed one of the thumbnails it has in rotation for the reality competition Nailed It!, after the questionable composition was brought to the attention of co-host Nicole Byer. Said thumbnail (shown at right, in a since-deleted tweet grabbed by E! News) featured assistant […]
Eyedrops, helmets & 2.5kg vests: Journalists prepare for new wave of French protests
Covering Yellow Vest protests is a hard job for reporters as they often find themselves amid heavy clashes and clouds of tear gas. Look how RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij is getting ready for the sixth weekend of rallies. “At RT we believe the best way to tell a story is to get to the heart of […]
‘Time to learn from the French!’ Yellow Vest protests spread to Israel, 10 arrested (VIDEOS)
Outraged by the rising cost of living and price hikes on basic services, Israeli citizens who were inspired by the French Yellow Vest movement took to the streets of Tel Aviv demanding concessions from the government. Wearing bright fluorescent yellow vests, symbolic of the French grassroots movement, some 600 Israeli activists blocked the Azrieli intersection […]
More than 1,300 were arrested and dozens injured after violent anti-government protests engulfed France — here’s how the clashes unfolded
Associated Press/Rafael Yaghobzadeh Yellow vest protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday, in what quickly devolved into violent clashes with police. The demonstrators began by protesting a planned fuel tax hike weeks ago, but participants have continued even after the French government canceled the increase. The protesters continue to be outraged over French […]
48 police officers injured at Yellow Vest protests in Toulouse (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
More than 50 people, most of them police officers, were injured in Toulouse during protests against fuel price hikes. Yellow Vest demonstrations turned into riots, making the southern French city and Paris look like battlefields. As France struggles to come to grips with the intensity of widespread protests against increasing fuel prices, which have grown […]
Angry mob attacks police officer during Yellow Vest protests in Paris (VIDEO)
A group of violent protesters has attacked a police officer at the Yellow Vest protests in Paris, pinning him to the ground before repeatedly hitting and kicking him. A video shows the mob ganging up on the officer near the Arc de Triomphe in the French capital. He eventually breaks free, with one protester seen […]
RT reporter Peter Oliver injured by rubber bullet while covering Yellow Vest protests in Paris
Peter Oliver, a correspondent for RT, has been hit by a rubber bullet while covering the Yellow Vest protests in Paris. Twelve RT journalists were injured over the three weeks of covering protest in France. Read more It comes as the French capital continues to endure its third weekend of violent protests, with RT France […]