NO MONEY FOR GENOCIDE! "Black Friday" Protest at Apple Store
About this Event
Join us at Portland's Apple store at 2:30PM on "Black Friday", November 27, 2026 - Protest Apple's complicity in human rights violations in Congo, Palestine, and Sudan!
WHY
Apple has ties to the exploitation of resources and people from the Congo, as well as Israel, which is of course actively committing gen0cide against Palestinian people - As well as attacking and 0ccupying parts of Lebanon and Syria. They also sell their devices and operate in stores based in United Arab Emirates (UAE), benefittitting the country that is funding the RSF's (Rapid Support Forces') gen0cide in Sudan.
In 2024, Apple received a formal cease and desist notice from lawyers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose government accuses apple of purchasing and using illegally exploited materials extracted from the country using slave labor, which includes the abuse and exploitation of Congolese children. Despite this, Apple has continued to use minerals sourced from slave labor in the Congo. In 2025, Reuters reported that the International Rights Advocates filed a lawsuit against Apple over their use of Congo's minerals.
In January of 2026, Apple acquired the Israeli AI startup Q.ai for roughly $1.6-2 billion. The Silicon Valley Giant reportedly hired dozens of former Israeli spies in mid-2025, and these same soldiers worked on technology that made the gen0cide of Palestinian people possible.
Additionally, Apple employees have accused Apple of listing its offices in 0ccupied Jerusalem as being in Israel, rather than in 0ccupied Palestinian territory - Despite the International Court of Justice's July 2024 ruling that Israel's 0ccupation of the territory is unlawful.
Apple even goes further in their support for Israel, which is present even after the international consensus that Israel's seige on Palestine is a genocide; according to the United Nations, Amnesty International, and international genocide studies scholars. Employees have noted that Apple's Benevity donation-matching program has matched employee's financial contributions - about $34.5 million - to illegal West Bank settlement-linked groups, as well as Friends of the IDF, a nonprofit dedicated to the wellbeing of active Israeli troops serving in the seige of Palestine, or other countries in the area that are being attacked and 0ccupied by Israel, including Lebanon. Apple also pays their Israeli employees in the IOF 100% of their base salary while they commit war crimes.
For more than three years, the RSF (paramilitary) has been committing human rights atrocities in Sudan that amount to gen0cide. The repeated massacres and rapes are horrific, yet the United Arab Emirates continues to send weapons to the RSF that is responsible for many of these atrocities. A 2026 report by Conflict Insights Group (CIG) confirmed that UAE continues to supply weapons and other assistance to the RSF in Sudan. The group concluded that UAE supported enhanced drone capabilities to help the RSF carry out massacres; explaining in particular that without such assistance, the seige, takeover, and resulting harm would likely have not occurred. CIG explained further that the UAE could play a significant role in preventing future famine and atrocities, but to do so, they must admit to their support for the RSF to undo it. Since UAE has yet to do so, it is important for the general public and companies to not do trade or have presence in the UAE. As long as Apple remains present in UAE via its stores, partnerships, and product sales; Apple is complicit in UAE support for the gen0cide in Sudan, as well as Congo and Palestine.
Apple has decided for each of these concerns that instead of publicly addressing human rights violations, they will continue to ignore complaints from customers and the general public! That is WHY we are protesting their support for these injustices.
More information on Apple's complicity in gen0cide and war crimes can be found on the website applesagainstapartheid.com . There, one can find educational materials, as well as flyers, posters, and PDFs to print.
The organization is unaffiliated with this particular event, though the event is informed by, and organized as a result of content shared by Apples Against Apartheid.
WHAT
Join us at Apple Pioneer Place for a PROTEST against Apple's complicity in crimes against humanity. We will provide a very limited number of signs, so we encourage you to bring your own.
You can make your own sign, or you can find and print one from https://applesagainstapartheid.com/#resources . There, you can also find an image that includes chants we may use. Limited copies will be provided at the protest.
We are individuals performing grassroots activism outside of formal organizations, thus we have a limited capacity to provide supplies. If you have a megaphone for participation in chants, please bring it!
WHERE
Apple Pioneer Place,
450 SW Yamhill St,
Portland, OR 97204
WHEN
"Black Friday" - Friday, November 27th, 2026 from 2:30PM - 4:30PM.
NOTE
RSVP not required to attend; but it does help us as individual organizers without a group, in order to plan appropriately for a general estimate of attendees to accommodate with printouts, signs, etc.!
Where is it happening?
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