{"id":41408,"date":"2019-11-01T15:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41408"},"modified":"2019-11-01T15:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:22:04","slug":"one-year-after-the-google-walkout-key-organizers-reflect-on-the-risk-to-their-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41408","title":{"rendered":"One year after the Google walkout, key organizers reflect on the risk to their careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">One year ago on November 1, tens of thousands of Google workers spilled out of their offices around the world, protesting sexual harassment, misconduct and a lack of transparency at one of the most powerful tech companies in the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In New York City, hundreds of workers gathered in a park near Google HQ, holding signs like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/01\/tech\/google-employee-walkout-andy-rubin\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Women&#8217;s rights are human rights&#8221; and chanting &#8220;time is up.&#8221;<\/a> Organizers took turns using a megaphone to address the crowd, reading anonymous stories from colleagues who said they&#8217;d been treated unfairly by the company. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It was certainly not the first worker uprising at a tech company \u2014 nor was it the last, but the sheer numbers of Googlers who participated that day were staggering, galvanizing a broader movement of worker activism. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago on November 1, tens of thousands of Google workers spilled out of their offices around the world, protesting sexual harassment, misconduct and a lack of transparency at one of the most powerful tech companies in the world.In New York City, hundreds of workers gathered in a park near Google HQ, holding signs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}