Activists marched outside of the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco to protest the company's contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CRM)
- Tech workers and community activists marched in front of the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco Monday to protest the company's contract with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
- The protest coincides with the CBP's separation of migrant families and their children as they cross the border illegally.
- The protest also comes a couple of weeks after a letter, signed by 650 Salesforce employees to persuade CEO Marc Benioff to end the contract, went disregarded.
- Similar protests have ignited across the industry as part of a larger movement as tech workers from various companies speak out against how the technology they build is used.
Tech workers and community activists gathered in front of the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco Monday morning to protest the tech giant's contract with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.
The protest comes on the heels of a letter signed in late June by 650 Salesforce employees who sought to persuade CEO Marc Benioff to end the company's contract with the CBP, which uses the company's Analytics and Community and Service Cloud programs.
Nothing came of the letter, prompting an uproar amongst tech workers and local activists who showed their solidarity with the 650 Salesforce employees by marching outside its headquarters Monday.
The issue at the heart of the protest is a part of a larger movement in the industry that has tech workers from various companies speaking out against how the technology they build is used. In June, Amazon employees wrote an open letter to CEO Jeff Bezos protesting the company's facial recognition contracts with law enforcement. Like the letter penned by Salesforce employees, it went unaddressed by its CEO.
“The workers here need to have a voice and need to have a seat at the table," said protest attendee and tech employee Stephanie Parker. "If we don’t want to build it, we’re not going to build it and we’re going to have our voice heard one way or another about this.”
Here's what the protest looked like:
About 25 protestors marched with banners in front of the Salesforce headquarters at 415 Mission St. in San Francisco Monday starting at around 10am.
Most were tech workers, many of whom remained anonymous. Their goal: to persuade Salesforce executives to cancel the company's contract that supplies the CBP with software.
The signs they carried read messages like "Caging children is a crime, not a business model."
Protestors bellowed chants like "No justice, no peace" and "No kids in cages." They echoed across the street and down the block.
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