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“It takes a village to kill a child”: The complicity of science and tech in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians
May 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Researchers from No Tech for Apartheid and Science for the People Canada have documented the use of science and technology in the production of military equipment currently being deployed against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Canadian companies are manufacturing parts for the F-35 jets currently being used to bomb Gaza, while tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon provide cloud services to the Israeli occupation. Join us to learn how science and tech workers in North America are complicit in genocide and how people working in and outside of these companies can help shut down the war machine.
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Speakers
Hasan Ibraheem is a Syrian organizer with No Tech For Apartheid and ex-Google software engineer. Based in NYC, he’s recently written a letter to workers at Google, Amazon and Microsoft titled, “Does My Code Kill Palestinians?”. Hasan encourages everyone to read this letter, especially aspiring tech professionals.
Derek Rasmussen is a legal researcher and peace activist who has done essential work to expose Canadian weapons-part manufacturing companies’ roles in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. Derek is one of the co-authors of the SftP report, “It Takes a Village to Kill a Child” and has also published on this topic in Breach Media.