Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts
On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as part of a No Azure for Apartheid protest. They declared the area a "Liberated Zone" encampment and said they had changed its name from East Campus Plaza to "The Martyred Palestinian Children's Plaza." The organization, which announced and distributed pictures of the takeover in a press release, said around 50 people were in attendance at the start of the event.
The protesters set up tents and artistic homages to the losses in Gaza, including shrouds and a large plate that reads ...