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Silenced Voices
Season 1, Ep. 13
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In “Silenced Voices: When Doing the Right Thing Costs You Your Job,” we dig into real, current cases of employee protest and retaliation. We analyze Microsoft’s firing of workers who challenged its policies over Gaza contracts, and the collective letter from over 50 U.S. federal agencies warning of retaliation for dissent. We expose how termination, performance manipulation, NDAs, safe channels, and organizational silence are deployed to crush internal activism. And we equip listeners with tools—documentation, networks, external platforms—to reclaim voice in environments built to muzzle truth.
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