Thank you for pledging to participate in the Googlers-Against-ICE Day of Visibility on April 30th! This page is your one-stop for all the information you need to participate safely and effectively.
First thing's first -- let's make it to 200!
As of Thursday April 16th, after just two weeks of launching the pledge, we have 121 pledged participants in Bay Area, NYC, SEA, Boulder, LON, and EU campuses. This is a phenomenal show of support for the campaign!
However, the Day of Visibility will be postponed unless we meet the following numbers:
200 pledges globally
50 pledges at Bay Area and NYC campuses
These thresholds were decided at the outset of planning to guarantee safety-in-numbers. If everyone who has already pledged convinces just one of their local co-workers to join, we are done!
The challenge: think of three co-workers you can ask to sign the petition and pledge to join you on the 30th. Use our DoV outreach toolkit as a guide: https://sldr.it/s/dov-outreach-toolkit.
Communication Channels
If you haven't done so already, please join the Global DoV Signal Chat. Additionally, the following campus hubs have their own Signal Chat. If your campus is part of these hubs, join the chat for local coordination:
If you would like to start a Signal chat space for your campus or hub, please speak up in the global chat or contact one of the organizers listed below!
Contact
You can reach out to facilitating organizers for a 1:1 chat at any time. We are happy to answer any of your questions or discuss ideas you have. You do not need to be from a particular hub to reach out to an organizer from that hub.
NYC Googler Organizers: Savini (signal:<>, ldap:<>)
Bay Area Googler Organizers: Alex (signal:<>, ldap:<>), Angela (signal:<>, ldap:<>)
Staff/Xoogler Organizers: Lau (signal:<>), John (signal:<>), Gabi (signal:<>), Nicole (signal:<>)
If you don't want to reach out on Signal or on corp, there are two other ways to reach the facilitating organizers:
Schedule a call: https://solidarity.googlers-against-ice.com/gai-schedule-a-call
Send us an email: info@googlers-against-ice.com
How To Participate
No matter how you responded to the "digital vs in-person" question on the pledge form, there are many ways to participate. We encourage you to pursue any and all of these!
Merch Pickup: please join your hub Signal Chats to learn when & where to pick up t-shirts, buttons, and stickers. Hub organizers will bring these to hub socials. If you are not in a hub, please speak up in the global DoV chat, and we will mail anything you want to you!
Digital Tokens
Add a MOMA profile picture ring: https://image-ring.replit.app/
Add an event to your corp calendar (tool TBA)
Physical Tokens
Wear your official "Googlers-Against-ICE" t-shirt to work!
Wear a button and/or add a sticker to your laptop / bag
Join a Lunch
Bay Area and NYC hubs have lunches planned. Plug in to their hub Signal chats to stay informed.
Plan a lunch at your office! Check interest in the global chat, or organize directly with your co-workers.
Table
Participants are encouraged to "table" on the day-of.
Google workers supporting the petition have been tabling since early February. See the Tabling section for more info.
Lead-up Events
We are hosting a variety of events leading up to April 30th to help participants prepare for the Day of Visibility, and also to attract new pledgers. The complete list is below. Please bring your co-workers to the socials even if they are completely new to the Googlers-Against-ICE campaign! We use these socials to make friends and connect with our like-minded co-workers, build confidence for the DoV, discuss logistics, and encourage new signers/pledgers.
Featured
Googlers-Against-ICE Day of Visibility All-Hands
Virtual Event
We are holding an all-hands meeting for Day-of-Visibility (DoV) participants and other Google workers / TVCs who are interested in participating. We request and strongly encourage that all pledged participants attend this meeting so that we can discuss important day-of logistics and be present together as a collective.
This week (April 13th) is a fantastic opportunity to circulate the DoV pledge page to your co-workers who might be ready to join us. Even folks who haven't signed the petition might be motivated to do so if they know about the DoV event as a follow-up opportunity for action. Both the Bay Area and NYC hubs will be holding DoV socials (Bay RSVP, NYC RSVP). You can pitch this week as an opportunity to sign, pledge, and connect with like-minded Google workers. Use our outreach toolkit for the petition and pledge to help these conversations along.In solidarity!
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NOTA Googlers Against ICE – 1:1 Organizing
Virtual Event
This will be a 75 minute session dedicated to learning about and practicing 1:1 organizing, in preparation for our upcoming Googlers Against ICE Day of Visibility.
The first ~20 min will consist of a short presentation and skill share about the one-on-one organizing conversation. Our training borrows heavily from the Organizing 4 Power training. During the training portion of this session, we will briefly cover structured organizing conversations: what they are, how they help you build power and relationships in the workplace and will help you to learn how to make the best use of them.
The second half of this session is specifically devoted to practicing actual 1:1 conversations through role-play where participants will take turns playing both the coworker and the organizers.
We highly recommend folks to attend our session, even if you've done similar trainings in the past, so that we can develop our relational organizing skills through 1:1 conversations. We recognize how daunting it can feel to have these sorts of conversations in the workplace... but with proper preparation and practice, we can feel more confident to build power and connect with our coworkers!
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SF Googlers Against ICE Happy Hour #3
Seven Square Restaurant & Taproom Lounge - Seven Square Restaurant & Taproom Lounge, 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
Join us for a drink at Seven Square Taproom, a 10-minute walk away from SF offices!
With the Day of Visibility fast approaching, we invite you all to meet your fellow workers. It is a great opportunity to build ties with other members, chat with organizers and pick up your merch! Come by to have a drink, hang out or even stop by for a moment to say hi. Feel free to bring your on-the-fence coworkers!
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South Bay Googlers Against ICE Happy Hour Social
Sports Page Bar & Grill - Sports Page, Plymouth Street, Mountain View, CA, USA
Hello Googlers Against ICE in the South Bay! We are meeting for a happy hour this Thursday at Sports Page, in anticipation of the petition's Day of Visibility on April 30th. The goal is to get together face-to-face, discuss logistics, invite newcomers to participate, and make friends :).
This event is for all Googlers and TVCs. Workers who have already pledged to participate in the Day of Visibility can pick up merch, meet other participants, and bring co-workers along! Workers who have not yet pledged have a chance to meet the organizers and participants and ask questions. And of course, we will all eat some good food and strengthen our bonds as like-minded colleagues.
See you there!
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Safety FAQ
Because the petition's demands are entirely focused on worker safety and workers' rights, our advocacy as workers is protected by the NLRA. Still, we know that leadership is antagonistic to our efforts, and we have to do everything in our power to protect ourselves from retaliation. The goal is to spread our message and build worker power while keeping our jobs and minimizing the risk of retaliation. Here are common questions about these issues that will help guide participants and increase the confidence of workers who are interested in participating:
Can Google fire us for participating?
Google can fire any at-will employee at any time. The question is always whether they are willing to do so if the firing decision can be challenged as unjust retaliation. Acknowledging this logic, the Day of Visibility has been designed to completely comply with company policies, so that if any retaliation happens, it can be effectively challenged. Here are company-facing components of the DoV:
MOMA profile pic rings and calendar events: These digital tokens were used weekly in 2025 to express solidarity with Palestinians suffering starvation in Gaza.
Lunchtime gatherings: DoV participants will find a time to gather in the usual cafe areas. There will be no marches, disruptions, or disobedience of any kind. Google cannot justly fire anyone for gathering with their co-workers for lunch, even if they are all wearing the same t-shirt.
Tabling: Organizers in the Googlers-Against-ICE campaign have been tabling all year, multiple times a week in Google campuses all over the world. There have been no adverse security encounters, much less any retaliation. We have effectively stress-tested this activity.
What happens if a group of us is approached by security?
Every on-campus contingent will have a participant trained to handle security encounters. Googlers-Against-ICE tablers have experienced that security workers are often friendly and supportive of the campaign. However, we cannot necessarily rule out a top-down directive from a security team to disperse even our compliant lunchtime gatherings. If this happens, the trained participant of the group will engage with the security workers and comply with their requests. DoV participants are explicitly discouraged from resisting requests from security, even if those requests violate the NLRA.
What if we are approached by the press?
Participants are explicitly discouraged from speaking to the press at all, without first consulting the facilitating organizers (see Contact section).
Tabling
Tabling is a common labor organizing tactic that involves sitting in the workplace with flyers and a sign that invites your co-workers to approach you and start a conversation.
On the Day-of-Visibility, the primary campus hubs and any other campuses with motivated organizers will hold tabling sessions throughout the day. The goal is to bring other Googlers into our movement, starting with them signing the petition, and hopefully leading to them pitching in to the work and next steps after the Day-of-Visibilitiy.
Many Googlers who signed the petition early on have been tabling for the last two months. Every time, they come away with new petition signers or (more recently) Day-of-Visiblity pledgers. It is an extremely effective way to spread the word!
How to become a tabler on the Day of Visibility:
First, find a buddy. Strength in numbers! Either ask the global chat, your hub chat, or one of your co-workers directly.
Print the Googlers-Against-ICE petition flyer in advance. Take care to use an off-corp printer.
Craft your own laptop sign to invite your co-workers to approach you. Let your creativity shine!
