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Press Release
August 26, 2025
MICROSOFT WORKERS HOLD A SIT-IN INSIDE EXECUTIVES’ BUILDING, RE-ESTABLISH THE LIBERATED ZONE IN THE LATEST ESCALATION AGAINST MICROSOFT
REDMOND, WASHINGTON – Moments ago, current and former Microsoft workers have re-established the Liberated Zone by holding a sit-in inside Microsoft executives’ Building 34, renaming it to “Mai Ubeid Building” in honor of Mai Ubeid, a Palestinian software engineer who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli air strike. The latest sit-in is part of a series of ongoing protests and disruptions happening today to protest Microsoft’s active role in the genocide of Palestinians.
Right before the sit-in, the group deployed noisemakers – attached to balloons – directly into the atrium of Building 34. During the sit-in, the workers and former workers occupied the office of Brad Smith, the current Microsoft president, delivering notices that read: “The People’s Court Summons Bradford Lee Smith on Charges of Crimes Against Humanity.” In addition, workers unfurled and hung two banners in the space: one that declares a renaming of Building 34 to “Mai Ubeid Building,” and another that repeats the demands of the liberated zone to Microsoft:
- Cut ties with Israel
- Call for an End to the Genocide and Forced Starvation
- Pay Reparations to the Palestinians
- End the Discrimination Against Workers
The workers and former workers chanted: “BRAD SMITH YOU CAN’T HIDE, YOU’RE SUPPORTING GENOCIDE! BRAD SMITH YOU’RE A LIAR! YOU SET PALESTINE ON FIRE! FREE PALESTINE.”
While the sit-in is taking place inside Brad Smith’s office in Building 34 – which is now on lockdown – current and former Microsoft workers and community members are holding an outside rally featuring a group on bikes that deployed artwork across various Microsoft signs on campus. Rally participants distributed copies of the Liberated Zone declaration: “We will not be cogs in the Israeli genocidal machine: a call for a Worker Intifada.” During the rally program, workers revealed an 18-foot scroll stating the No Azure for Apartheid demands with signatories of over 2,000 workers who signed the petition during the past 15 months since the petition launch.
No Azure for Apartheid organizers Nisreen Jaradat and Ibtihal Aboussad gave speeches at the rally. During her speech, Aboussad said: “You continue to try to bury your head in the sand, so we are here today outside your blood-soaked thrones, to continue pulling your baby-killer necks out of your sand holes and continue to force you to confront your complicity, until you stop powering the murdering our people!”
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If they have "souls", then they don't have brains. Otherwise, they wouldn't have ever worked in that place.
Facilitating genocide is not even needed to keep you away from that company, despite the New M$ PR push from a few years ago.
Further more, they wouldn't have thought "protest" was going to force a change, when world-sized interests are at stake.
So, while commendable at first glance, one can't help, with a more elaborate look, but see this as yet another posturing attempt, if still, in this case, worthy of very little praise for the potential personal sacrifice that could be incurred.
You want to do something actually useful, even if passive? Let's see at least 10s of millions of Americans refusing to pay federal taxes all at the same time. Then the world might start to believe that anyone is really that bothered about genocide, and consider it an actual moral deal breaker.
What elevates you, in your mind, to replace solidarity with disgust and empathy with such dismissive, petty, useless condescension? Your judgement is meaningless. Your ire misplaced. Your indignation unearned.
Must perfection precede praxis? Can the misled not recognize deception and correct their course? If you're as wise as you think then you would be helping those trying to affect change instead of yelling into the void about how they should be doing it better.
Hey, show some respect. The person you're replying to has never consumed anything under capitalism. Upon hearing about them Jesus became real solely to wish he could be as perfect.
"Yet you participate in society! Curious!" is next I guess.
Well, the user is giving his point of view on this event. Because it's not the first time that there have been protests in front of a big tech company, for example, this VOA News video from 6 months ago talking about a protest, and I really don't know what happened next.
And that prevents Israel from using open source and/or free software for its questionable activities or worse, go to Palantir to hire their services, because the protests only end up helping Israel so that it can change its services.
The user considers that it is more effective not to pay taxes as a form of protest, but the other option would be to protest against Netanyahu. For using the war in Gaza to prevent elections because they are technically at "war" and remain in power.
As always, "Nazi Bar" analogies and their likes are only used expediently. Otherwise, it's all "Must perfection precede praxis?..." when it's about the senate, congress, M$ (this thread), or even the nation state itself as an entity.
Our posturing will have no limits.. as long as it doesn't disrupt our comfy life too much, and doesn't lead us too far astray from the bounds set by the establishment uniparty directly responsible for most genocides post-WW2.
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While an opinion at first glance, one can't help, with a more elaborate look, but see this as yet another steaming pile of useless dogshit, if still, in this case, worthy of very much contempt for the sheer dicklessness of it and zero personal sacrifice that could be incurred by spewing it.
Congratulations, you won morality...in your own head.
Thank you for this "no u" comment. I always assume my comments are incoherent to a large extent. It turns out, this one at least reads just fine.
No it communicates very well that you have an entirely unearned sense of superiority
Then there is moral superiority in Lemmy, Reddit, Xwitter, Bluesky and other social networks.
We are all guilty of it at some point, but some cases are more egregious than others. This fuckin guy seems unhinged.
Have you stopped paying taxes?
I have stopped paying at least 90-95%.
Proof is in the pudding buddy.
I don't live in the US despite being a citizen.
Proof is in the pudding indeed.