Overview

• About 50 people tied to No Azure for Apartheid, including current and former employees and community members, occupied the East Campus Plaza in Redmond and declared a "Liberated Zone."
• Protesters set up tents, symbolic shrouds and a negotiating table inviting executives to discuss ending Microsoft’s work with Israel’s military.
• Microsoft said the group was asked to leave and did so, while organizers said police dispersed them to public property under threat of arrest after a trespass warning.
• Organizers cited a Guardian investigation alleging large-scale collection of Palestinian call data and released a "Worker Intifada" manifesto urging walkouts, strikes and severing ties with Israel.
• Microsoft says it bars unlawful surveillance and human rights abuses, previously reported no evidence of misuse, and on Aug. 15 hired Covington & Burling to conduct a review it plans to publish.