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O Rio de Janeiro está parecendo Europa medieval com um rio de esgoto fluindo na frente do Palácio Guanabara já há 4 dias. Como pode?? @eduardopaes@aguas_do_rio
NEWS
Google has fired 28 employees who staged in sit-in which was protesting the company’s $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israeli government.
Nine employees were also arrested.
In a note sent to employees the company says: “If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again.”
Googlers,
You may have seen reports of protests at some of our offices yesterday. Unfortunately, a number of employees brought the event into our buildings in New York and Sunnyvale. They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers.
Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made coworkers feel threatened. We placed employees involved under investigation and cut their access to our systems. Those who refused to leave were arrested by law enforcement and removed from our offices.
Following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed.
Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to - including our Code of Conduct and Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of Conduct, and Workplace Concerns.
We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you're one of the few who are tempted to think we're going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.
You should expect to hear more from leaders about standards of behavior and discourse in the workplace.
You've probably seen this video of a Jewish man and woman offering Muslim worshippers dates outside the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Ramadan. This beautiful gesture shows the possibility of coexistence between the two people at an individual level - I mean, it's incredibly heartwarming to see something like this amidst the never-ending avalanche of hatred, violence, incitement & vengeful attitudes.
But consider who isn't commenting or sharing this and doesn't want to acknowledge the powerful footage; think about who refuses to accept the inevitability of coexistence & peace between Israelis and Palestinians; imagine if more people put aside their differences for just this one individual video/post and said yes, Jewish Israelis & Palestinians are immensely capable of getting along; what if the algorithms promoted such positive occurrences instead of elevating violent content and incendiary speech; why aren't more people focusing on finding the slightest of common ground across our vast differences when we know that neither Palestinians nor Israelis are going anywhere.
There are people on both sides who refuse to amplify faint symbols and messages of tolerance, shared humanity, and acceptance because those values go against their entrenched narratives. Yes, political decisions from the top are needed to make agreements on many issues. However, true, lasting peace begins with each and every one of us and requires a bottom-up approach that will take time but ultimately yield the best possible outcome out of this bloody & protracted conflict. This takes small but meaningful steps, like in this video.
Blessed are the peacemakers ❤️✌️🙏
A 3-day ceasefire for Noa Argamani's freedom and the release of 50 Palestinian women from Israeli prisons: Noa Argamani's parents are suffering horrendously; her mom is dying and barely has any time left. Noa is their only daughter, and her mother hopes to see Noa one last time before she passes. Although ceasefire and hostage exchange negotiations are still ongoing, I call for an interim agreement to release Noa in exchange for 50 Palestinian women in Israeli prisons and a 3-day ceasefire. During these three days, the maximum amount of humanitarian aid trucks should be pushed into Gaza while leveraging the 3-day calm to bolster ceasefire negotiations. The time to act is now. This is a win-win for all parties and could be a mutual opportunity to elevate humanitarian considerations above the chronic impasse in negotiations. Noa's father has expressed immense compassion toward the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza; he and his wife deserve to be reunited quickly with their daughter, and hundreds of Palestinian families deserve to have 50 of their daughters return to them.
@AmiriDiwan@TamimBinHamad@POTUS@SecBlinken@SafiraLeaf@RHCJO@QatarEmbassyUSA @QatarEmb_London @MofaQatar_EN@MfaEgypt@UNReliefChief@antonioguterres @StephDujarric @SigridKaag@USEmbassyCairo@EUinEgypt@yoavgallant@yairlapid@IDFSpokesperson@IsraeliPM@netanyahu@TalNaim_@RahamimoffTamar@IsraelinUSA@LiviaLinkRaviv@IsraelinSF@IsraelMFA@OdedJoseph
The backlash to director Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech at the Oscar’s—where his film The Zone of Interest won “Best International Feature Film”—is really beyond the pale.
Let’s take a minute to watch his speech & examine what he said in context: 🧵