{"id":19821,"date":"2025-08-20T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/microsoft-workers-occupy-hq-in-protest-against-companys-ties-to-israeli-military\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:37:18","slug":"microsoft-workers-occupy-hq-in-protest-against-companys-ties-to-israeli-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/microsoft-workers-occupy-hq-in-protest-against-companys-ties-to-israeli-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company\u2019s ties to Israeli military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees outraged by report Azure platform used by Israel to store surveillance data collected on Palestinians<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Microsoft employees occupied the company\u2019s east campus in Redmond, Washington to protest against what they say is the use of its software by the Israeli military to carry out operations in Gaza and enable the surveillance of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Three months after the company said it was launching an independent investigation into the use of its Azure software, current and former staff occupied a space they declared the \u201cFree Zone\u201d, holding placards that read \u201cJoin The Worker Intifada \u2013 No Labor for Genocide\u201d and \u201cMartyred Palestinian Children\u2019s Plaza\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/19\/microsoft-workers-protest-washington-israel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/796ca46d994a55a8357ff808c9c0270b5c34a3a7\/426_0_3335_2668\/master\/3335.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=db98d681cf83387afe0535d087395dfe\" title=\"Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company\u2019s ties to Israeli military\" \/>Employees outraged by report Azure platform used by Israel to store surveillance data collected on Palestinians<br \/>\nDozens of Microsoft employees occupied the company\u2019s east campus in Redmond, Washington to protest against what they say is the use of its software by the Israeli military to carry out operations in Gaza and enable the surveillance of Palestinians.<br \/>\nThree months after the company said it was launching an independent investigation into the use of its Azure software, current and former staff occupied a space they declared the \u201cFree Zone\u201d, holding placards that read \u201cJoin The Worker Intifada \u2013 No Labor for Genocide\u201d and \u201cMartyred Palestinian Children\u2019s Plaza\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees outraged by report Azure platform used by Israel to store surveillance data collected on Palestinians Dozens of Microsoft employees occupied the company\u2019s east campus in Redmond, Washington to protest against what they say is the use of its software by the Israeli military to carry out operations in Gaza and enable the surveillance of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/microsoft-workers-occupy-hq-in-protest-against-companys-ties-to-israeli-military\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company\u2019s ties to Israeli military<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}