Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts
Seeded from: The Verge AI On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as part of a No Azure for Apartheid protest. They declared the area a “Liberated Zone” encampment and said they had changed its name from Read more: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/761731/pro-palestinian-protests-microsoft-headquarters-redmond-washington-no-azure-tech-for-apartheid
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