Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Guardian

    After the Google walkout, is #Me Too about to get more militant? | Moira Donegan

    Women’s stories of abuse have hardly made a mark on institutions like the tech giant. If talking alone doesn’t work, action will do
    by Moira Donegan Nov 02, 2018 3 minutes
    ‘The walkout demonstrates #MeToo’s versatility, and its potential to mobilize women.’ Employees hold signs outside Google’s New York office as part of the global protest. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

    It started in Tokyo. On Thursday, Google employees around the world stopped work at 11am local time, as part of a planned protest against the tech giant’s handling of sexual harassment complaints. The protests happened in waves, with workers walking out of their offices, carrying signs and chanting, as the clock struck 11 in Singapore, Hyderabad, Berlin, Dublin, and finally in New York and at Google’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California.

    The walkouts were the culmination of months of employee discontent over immoral choices by Google leadership, including a project called , a prototype of a censored search engine that could be deployed in China, where the state restricts its people’s access to information, and , an artificial intelligence service developed for the US Department of Defense.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Guardian

    The Guardian4 min read
    Lawn And Order: The Evergreen Appeal Of Grass-cutting In Video Games
    Jessica used to come for tea on Tuesdays, and all she wanted to do was cut grass. Every week, we’d click The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker’s miniature disc into my GameCube and she’d ready her sword. Because she was a couple of years younger than m
    The Guardian3 min readWorld
    Historians Come Together To Wrest Ukraine’s Past Out Of Russia’s Shadow
    The opening salvo in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year was not a rocket or a missile. Rather, it was an essay. Vladimir Putin’s On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians, published in summer 2021, ranged over 1,00
    The Guardian6 min read
    ‘I Gasped When I Read It’: Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis And Louisa Harland On Ulster American
    What could be cosier than lunch beside a crackling fire in the company of three affable actors wearing autumnal knitwear? Nothing really – although the subject that has brought Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland together, in this quiet L

    Related Books & Audiobooks