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Amazon Ramps Up Security to Head Off Project Nimbus Protests

Former Big Tech workers intended to disrupt Wednesday’s AWS Summit in New York to protest the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel.

The clampdown in New York quelled several activists’ plans to interrupt the keynote speech from Matt Wood, the vice president for AI products at AWS. They held large banners reading “Google and Amazon Workers Say: Drop Nimbus, End the Occupation, No Tech for Apartheid” and “Genocide Powered by AWS” atop an image of a Gazan neighborhood reduced to rubble. According to an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call, that tech allegedly results in many attacks that kill “ civilians and entire families as ‘collateral damage.’” It’s unclear whether Lavender specifically has a connection to Project Nimbus or its infrastructure.

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