nyc marathon is funded by blood money
The title sponsor of the NYC Marathon makes money from servicing Israel’s apartheid and genocide of Palestinians.
What’s happening in Palestine?
Gaza is about 25 miles long & 6 miles wide, with a population of 2.1 million.
Since October 7th, 2023, Israel has murdered 100,000+ Palestinians, displaced 90% of Gaza’s people, acutely starved 96% of them, and has banned any food to enter the region since last month.
How is the NYC Marathon related?
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is the title sponsor of the NYC Marathon.
TCS supplies critical banking and IT services to Israel to surveil, occupy and destroy Palestinian land and lives.
TCS is the most valuable subsidiary of Indian megacorporation Tata Group, a key infrastructure supplier for the Israeli genocidal and apartheid regime.
TCS whitewashes its complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians by sponsoring marathons for “community well-being.”
What can you do?
Email New York Road Runners (NYRR) to drop TCS as a sponsor of the NYC Marathon.
Join our rally at one of these locations during the Marathon on Sunday, November 3rd, from 10AM - 1PM.
TATA BYE BYE
TATA BYE BYE
SALAM (South Asian Left) has launched a campaign to demand New York Road Runners (NYRR) and the New York City Marathon to drop Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as a sponsor.
Scroll Down to Take Action on November 3!
BIB PICKUP
You can pick up bibs at the People's Forum from Tuesday-Saturday 10AM-9PM or outside the Javits Center from 10AM-7PM on Fri, Nov 1 or 10AM-4:30PM on Sat, Nov 2.
PRINT YOUR OWN BIB
Design link here!
BRING PEOPLE
Invite your runner friends to join us or bring spectators to the marathon!
EMAIL NYRR
Tell New York Road Runners to Drop TCS! Link here.
Remember, our mission is not to shame the runners. They are running enthusiasts, and not our primary targets. Our mission is to:
Raise awareness among runners about Zionism and its genocidal project, and to move people to action, whether BDS, or writing to TCS to express condemnation for their alliance with Israel.
Expose TCS as active participants in genocide.
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This campaign targets the deadly alliance between India and Israel, with Indian capitalists profiting from the genocide of Palestinians. For decades, India has secretly armed Israel’s occupation while companies like Tata supply weapons, armored vehicles, banking, and IT infrastructure—like Project Nimbus, which fuels the Zionist surveillance state. Its IT wing, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), with a massive presence in the U.S., profits from the genocide while sponsoring events like the New York City Marathon. We demand for an immediate end to Tata's role in this death machine—it's time to cut ties with corporations that fuel apartheid and genocide. From New York to Palestine, we will strike back!
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They are complicit. Tata produces many components of “Israel’s” genocidal infrastructure, including weapons, banking services to Zionist settlers, cloud computing infrastructure for the “Israeli” government and the IDF, and armored vehicles to patrol stolen Palestinian land.
They are liars. Tata benefits from cultivating a false image of benevolent industrialism and philanthropic co mmunity-building while actively engaging in death and destruction.
They are everywhere. Right here in our neighborhoods, Tata is manufacturing the building blocks of the “Israeli” death machine.
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), provides IT and consulting services. The most valuable subsidiary of Tata Group, TCS was established in 1968. Started operations in Occupied Palestine in 2003, it is one of the first Indian tech companies to do so and employs about 1,100 people there.
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In New York City, TCS operates out of 101 Park Ave & on Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus.
TCS is the main sponsor of the New York City Marathon, the largest one in the world.
We will target TCS for its complicity in genocide, calling on marathon organizer New York Road Runners to drop its sponsorship.
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