FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Petition backed by allies including World BEYOND War and RootsAction.org; 104,000-name plus memorial ParentsPlea.com documents the human toll; jurisdictions targeted: Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Ireland
SAN FRANCISCO / MADRID / AMSTERDAM / PARIS / DUBLIN — September 17, 2026 — As the movement that gave the world the language of “the 99 percent” marks its 15th anniversary on September 17, 2026, a coalition of authors, activists, families, and human rights advocates is using the occasion to launch its most ambitious accountability effort yet: a coordinated legal and public campaign demanding that courts in four countries investigate Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, and their senior executives for alleged complicity in genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Gaza and the West Bank.
The campaign is anchored by NoEthicsInBigTech.com, the platform built by Vahid Razavi — a former Amazon Web Services employee, author of “No Ethics In Big Tech” and “Ethics In Tech and Lack Thereof,” and producer of the documentary film “Forever Peace Now” — and is supported by allied organizations including World BEYOND War and RootsAction.org, which co-hosted a public panel discussion following a screening of the “Forever Peace Now” documentary.
OCCUPY AT 15: FROM ZUCCOTTI PARK TO SILICON VALLEY
Occupy Wall Street began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, popularizing the framework of “the 1 percent” versus “the 99 percent” that reshaped American political discourse and helped seed movements including Fight for $15 and the Sanders campaigns. Fifteen years later, organizers behind the Occupy 2026 anniversary commemoration argue that the target of accountability has shifted: from Wall Street’s banks to the small handful of technology companies that now supply the cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and data infrastructure used by militaries and governments around the world.
“Occupy taught the world to ask who benefits and who pays,” the campaign states in materials published on NoEthicsInBigTech.com. “Fifteen years later, the answer runs through data centers, not just trading floors.”
THE PETITION: FOUR JURISDICTIONS, ONE DEMAND
The coalition’s petition — live at actionnetwork.org and addressed initially to the Attorney General of Spain, the Central Courts of Instruction of Spain’s Audiencia Nacional, and the Government of Spain — calls for:
1. An immediate formal investigation into Amazon, Oracle, Palantir, Microsoft, and Google for allegedly providing technology and services that substantially aid and abet international crimes;
2. Investigation of senior executives — CEOs, chairs, and board members;
3. Subpoenas for internal documents and communications to determine what these companies knew, and when;
4. Pursuit of charges of complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and arrest warrants for executives should the evidence warrant it.
Legal arguments published on the NoEthicsInBigTech.com blog extend the campaign’s strategy beyond Spain to three additional European jurisdictions: the Netherlands, where reporting by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call — later acknowledged in substantial part by Microsoft Vice-Chair and President Brad Smith — found that Israeli military intelligence data was stored on Microsoft Azure servers on Dutch soil; France, where the 2022 Lafarge ruling established that corporate knowledge of atrocities, combined with assistance, can support charges of complicity in crimes against humanity; and Ireland, where the International Criminal Court Act 2006 directly incorporates the Rome Statute’s provisions on aiding and abetting international crimes, and where Google’s EMEA operations are legally headquartered.
The campaign is explicit that these are allegations advanced through petitions and legal filings, not adjudicated findings — and that the process exists precisely so that courts, not campaigners, make that determination. “This is not a call for a corporate apology tour,” the campaign states. “It is a call for the same criminal process that any other alleged accessory to mass atrocity would face.”
PARENTSPLEA.COM: NAMING THE DEAD
Central to the campaign is ParentsPlea.com, a living memorial that has grown to document 142,584 individual lives lost to war, corporate harm, and injustice, each entry researched and sourced, spanning Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, and beyond, and covering losses recorded both before and after October 7, 2023. The site’s stated purpose is to ensure that casualty figures are not reduced to statistics, and to give prosecutors, journalists, and the public a sourced record connecting documented harms to the technology and infrastructure the petition alleges enabled them.
BEYOND THE COMPANIES: THE NETWORKS BEHIND THEM
The campaign’s research, published in “No Ethics In Big Tech,” also examines the financial and social networks connecting a number of Silicon Valley’s most prominent early PayPal-era investors and founders — a group the book refers to as the “PayPal Mafia” — to individuals who maintained relationships with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction. The book documents, with sourcing to DOJ-released records and reporting including Jacobin and Boing Boing, that Epstein arranged introductions between Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak beginning in 2014 — introductions that the book states led to Thiel’s Founders Fund making its first Israeli investment. The book is direct in stating that these are documented associations and business outcomes, not criminal findings, and that it is for prosecutors and courts — not the book’s author — to determine what legal consequences, if any, follow.
A CALL TO CONSCIENCE
“No one is too small to demand justice, and no one should give up hope,” said Vahid Razavi, founder of NoEthicsInBigTech.com. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but we believe it bends toward justice — and it bends because ordinary people push it. This petition is proof that a single private citizen, backed by a growing global coalition, can put the question of accountability in front of courts in four nations. The companies and executives named in our petition and legal filings are entitled to due process, and we welcome it — because due process is exactly what victims documented on ParentsPlea.com have never received.”
The coalition is actively seeking additional sponsor organizations, signatories, pro bono legal counsel, and media partners in the jurisdictions named above and beyond.
ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
NoEthicsInBigTech.com publishes research, legal strategy memoranda, and reporting on Big Tech accountability, including the free book “No Ethics In Big Tech” (released Hiroshima Day, 2026) and “Ethics In Tech and Lack Thereof.” ParentsPlea.com is a sourced memorial documenting lives lost to war and injustice. Forever Peace Now (ForeverPeaceNow.com) is a documentary film examining technology’s role in modern conflict. The petition is hosted at ActionNetwork.org and has been supported by allied organizations including World BEYOND War, RootsAction.org and Occupy2026.org .
MEDIA CONTACT
Vahid Razavi
NoEthicsInBigTech.com
Contact: Info@NoEthicsInBigTech.com
Research assistance for this release and the accompanying fact sheets was provided by Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant.
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EDITORS’ NOTE ON SOURCING: This release characterizes pending legal petitions and published research; allegations against named companies and individuals are attributed to the petition and cited publications and have not been adjudicated by any court. Source documents, including the Netherlands, France, and Ireland jurisdiction memoranda and the original Spanish petition text, are available at NoEthicsInBigTech.com and upon request.