Cisco: Stop Enabling Genocide, Apartheid and Human Rights Abuses
Cisco claims to be the "Conscious Culture" company and the "Bridge to Possible" with the stated purpose of "Powering an Inclusive Future for All," when in reality it is illegally exploiting our labor to support crimes against humanity. B2H was formed to hold Cisco accountable to its own Code of Business Conduct and Human Rights Policy.
In just a few weeks through word of mouth, the Open Letter garnered 1,770 employee signatories. Cisco was forced to develop contrived excuses to shut down the Open Letter and continue with its genocide profiteering. It has now come to light that Cisco is also exploiting our labor to aid ICE in its unlawful kidnappings and family separation.
At our community's request we are now relaunching the Open Letter for current Cisco employees. Non-Cisco employees can sign here.
Add your name to tell Cisco that we won't allow our labor to be exploited for genocide or ICE's unlawful activity and encourage investors, customers, and partners to take decisive action.
Employee morale and wellbeing provide critically important insights to current and prospective investors, customers, and partners. High morale translates to higher productivity, lower turnover, and a more profitable investment. The number of signatories to the Open Letter and non-employee action are two more data points to encourage Cisco to engage in our demands and show external parties that Cisco is a risky investment and poor business partner.
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Join the Movement - Stop Cisco Complicity in Genocide and ICE Raids
The Open Letter
We reiterate the demands as stated in the Open Letter (inter alia halt the provision of Cisco tech to the IOF, disclose Cisco's business with Israel and all business on occupied lands, update employee and matching funds policies) and additionally demand the below.
- Immediate third-party human rights impact assessment: Cisco reviewed its own ties with Israel and cleared itself based on an internal investigation. Under international law, Cisco is required to engage a third party.
- End ICE complicity: Cisco must fully disclose all past and present dealings with ICE, immediately stop the supply of all products and services that are enabling ICE's unlawful activity, and disclose any technology that cannot be decommissioned.
- Protect employees and reinstate B2H: Cisco must immediately reinstate the B2H Webex and Sharepoint, and engage a third party to address the rampant white supremacy creating a hostile work environment. We have the right to organize for our mutual protection and benefit and we have the right to safety within our workplace. Cisco must engage a trauma informed professional to conduct immediate unconscious bias and Palestine sensitivity training and update its Inclusive Language Policy to prohibit Islamophobic and discriminatory terms.