Sergey Brin, president of Alphabet and co-founder of Google, joins protestors at San Francisco International Airport. Courtesy: Vassil Mladjov

(left to right) Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer Source: Lyft

Microsoft employees on Sunday urged each other on Twitter to take advantage of a reported offer by the tech giant to 100 percent match employee donations to the ACLU. Ride-hailing company Lyft co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green pledged to donate $1 million to the ACLU over the next four years "to defend our constitution," they said in a blog post Sunday. The company's New York City general manager Vipul Patel joined demonstrators at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday night. At its peak, the JFK protest lined both sides of the passenger pickup lane at Terminal 4 and united travelers and drivers alike, he told CNBC said via email. "Civil liberties matter to us a great deal," he wrote. Patel is a former lawyer and first-generation immigrant and rarely participates in public protests, he wrote. He joined the Women's March in Washington last week, his first march in over a decade, and joined a Manhattan rally on Sunday. The issues at stake matter to him both personally and professionally, he told CNBC. "Our driver base in New York City is largely composed of immigrants, many of them Muslim," wrote Patel. "I want to stand with them in whatever way I can." Stewart Butterfield, chief executive officer of workplace app Slack, and investor Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital were among a number of tech leaders matching individual donations to the ACLU. Tweet. Sacca, who in a December Recode story loudly criticized leaders from tech's biggest companies for meeting with the president, tweeted that he could barely keep up with the response and continued to increase the amount he said he would donate. Tweet

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