We against Microsoft's active role in powering genocide in Palestine

We will not be cogs in the Israeli genocidal machine!

A call for a Worker Intifada
From the Liberated Zone

"We, as Microsoft workers, former workers, and community members of conscience, are establishing a
Liberated Zone on the grounds of the Martyred Palestinian Children's Plaza, formerly known as the
Microsoft East Campus Plaza.
We choose to take this step to escalate against Microsoft's active role in powering 22 months of genocide in Palestine. The Liberated Zone is born out of desperation and extreme urgency. The Liberated Zone is born out of our grief for wailing Palestinian mothers and watching shreds of Palestinian babies. The Liberated Zone is born out of radical love for the rich humanity of Palestinian
people.
Today, we answer Gaza's call to action to mobilize, confront, and escalate to force an end to this
genocide powered by Microsoft technology.
Today, we refuse to be part of the system that is insistent on dehumanizing Palestinians and enabling their mass murder; we refuse to be complicit in this genocide; we refuse to accept normalcy in the face of genocide.
Today, we choose to revolt; we choose to rise up; we choose to disobey; and we choose to carry forward
the torch of the intifada until every single inch of Palestine is liberated.
Today, we put our employment, our immigration status, our livelihoods, and our bodies on the line
because it is precisely the urgency that is needed to stop the waterfall of Palestinian blood. We cannot
afford a second longer of silence as our labor powers the world's most well-documented and first AI-
assisted genocide.
Too often, we are told that our labor is apolitical, that our technology is neutral. Yet, Microsoft has made the active choice to be part of the economy of apartheid since 1991 with its technologies embedded across the Israeli military, prison system, police, universities, and schools – including in illegally occupied settlements. That is a political choice. As it stands today, Microsoft technology powers Israel's mass-surveillance weapon that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls and texts made each day by Palestinians. That is a political choice. Every hour, the Microsoft-powered mass surveillance weapon is used to blackmail Palestinians, place them in detention, or even justify their killing after the fact. That is a political choice. Every day for the past 22 months, the Microsoft-powered mass surveillance weapon has been used to facilitate the bombardment and massacring of Palestinians in Gaza. That is a political choice.
To put it simply, Microsoft and its executives exploited our labor to cement themselves as the technological backbone to the Israeli genocidal machine that is blackmailing, kidnapping, massacring, and maiming millions of Palestinians. In return, the same executives raked in hundreds of millions of dollars by powering and sustaining the Israeli settler-colonial project of genocide, apartheid, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes that have put and continue to put Palestinians’ self-determination and very existence at stake. In establishing the Liberated Zone, we liberate our workplace and reclaim our labor by refusing to do
any work that could contribute to genocide and other crimes against humanity in Palestine and demanding Microsoft to do the following:
1. Cut Ties with Israel
2. Call for an End to the Genocide and Forced Starvation
3. Pay Reparations to the Palestinians
4. End the Discrimination Against Workers
In establishing the Liberated Zone, we are taking inspiration from the Student Intifada and calling upon all
workers of conscience to join the Worker Intifada - a revolutionary uprising of workers who refuse to
have their labor exploited to power the genocide of Palestinians. After 77 years of occupation and over 22
months of witnessing the Holocaust of our time, we stop pleading for platitudes and instead force the
institutions and entities we are a part of to end their role in powering Israel's genocidal campaigns of starvation and bombardment."

Source: Nidal Seattle, August 20, 2025, https://t.me/nidalseattle/246