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Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
ALERT: @PalantirTech when we said we'll be back, we meant it. Palantir is responsible for ICE workplace raids like the one that stole 680 people in Miss. last week. Join us for an immediate emergency response rally in Palo Alto THIS FRIDAY 8/16. #DisarmICEhttps://t.co/i3aRGAFFww pic.twitter.com/wHeXY9Z0N9
— CCCC Bay Area (@CloseTheCampsBA) August 13, 2019
When we said we’ll be back, we meant it. Join us for an immediate response rally, speakout, and action at Palantir this Friday at 12 PM. Palantir provided the technology ICE used to steal 680 people during the largest single-state immigration enforcement action in US history last week. Hit the streets for an immediate emergency response rally in Palo Alto THIS FRIDAY 8/16 #DisarmICE.
We know that Palantir Technologies, listed as a “mission critical” software in uncovered ICE documents, is the tech backbone fueling the deportation, detention, and war machine — and we REFUSE to be complicit. Palantir Tech makes workplace raids like the one that victimized 680 people and their families in Mississippi last week possible. As the growing threat of fascist white supremacy emerges in deadly outbreaks all across the country, we must target and hold institutions that embolden and produce this violent escalation responsible. Palantir Technologies cannot continue business as usual in Palo Alto as asylum seekers die in ICE detention and children continue to sit in cages.
Palantir workers: You don’t have to be complicit. Stop enabling terror and #DropICEContracts NOW!
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One month ago, 600-800 community activists, immigrants, workers, youth, students, tech workers, and more united to Shut Down Palantir in the largest action at Palantir Technologies in history. Join our 7 Weeks to #DisarmICE campaign as we turn up the pressure on Palantir Tech to Drop the ICE Contracts before their September 25 deadline. This will be the first of several coordinated actions. It’s all hands on deck — Silicon Valley, Complicit No More!
We will meet at 542 High Street at 12 p.m. on Friday. Please arrive on time as our rally will have a program. We are in need of volunteers, speakers, and coalition partners. Interested in helping out or joining our coalition? If you or your group agrees with the call to #CloseTheConcentrationCamps, let us know. DM for questions or to join the coalition.
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The Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps Bay Area is a network of migrant rights and activist organizations united to #CloseTheCamps and #AbolishICE.
Coalition partners:
-Mijente
-Silicon Valley De-Bug
-SIREN Coalition
-Tech Workers Coalition
-Tech Workers Coalition Bay Area
-Serve the People San Jose
-Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area
-South Bay Jewish Voice for Peace
-PSL San Francisco
-Bay Area Tech Workers Coalition
-Anakbayan Silicon Valley
-Silicon Valley Democratic Socialists of America
-Democratic Socialists of America San Francisco
-Raging Grannies Action
-Palestinian Youth Movement Bay Area
-Democratic Socialists of America Santa Cruz
-Oakland Privacy
-Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
-Movement for a People’s Party (National)
-Green Party of Santa Clara County
-Human Agenda
-And more
**WHY PALANTIR?**
https://twitter.com/CloseTheCampsBA/status/115421418726393856
#DisarmICE: Exposing @PalantirTech's Reign of Terror
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612335/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration-crackdown/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/13/tech-workers-palantir-immigration-protest-github
These Are The Companies Profiting From Detaining Migrants At Border Concentration Camps
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/palantir-provides-the-engine-for-donald-trumps-deportation-machine/
Palantir Played Key Role in Arresting Families for Deportation, Document Shows
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*Interested in volunteering or learning more?*
http://bit.ly/DisarmICE
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Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
As part of the Month of Momentum, 30 Days of Action to Close the Camps, JVP, SURJ and IJAN are jointly organizing an action on Friday, August 23rd. Join us in making the connection between the forced displacement of asylum seekers and refugees coming into the US and their confinement in US concentration camps with the on-going forced displacement of the Palestinian people, as a result of the founding and on-going colonization of Palestine by the state of Israel, and the confining of Palestinian people into walled ghettos, refugee camps and the large concentration camp of Gaza.
As Jewish people, our collective histories and understanding of ethnic cleansing and genocide move us to stand with the people of Palestine and those seeking asylum at the US border. We welcome all those who want to stand with us in solidarity.
EMERGENCY MASS MOBILIZATION. THE COALITION TO CLOSE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS BAY AREA IS CALLING ON ALL THOSE THAT DENOUNCE AND REBUKE PALANTIR’S SHAMELESS ESCALATION TO IMMEDIATELY MOBILIZE THIS FRIDAY AT PALANTIR HQ IN PALO ALTO AT 4 PM FOR AN EMERGENCY ACTION. Palantir has renewed its ICE Investigative Case Management contract that allows ICE, the CIA, and more to track individuals’ every move — even yours — until 2022. After activists have fought for months to #DROPICECONTRACTS, putting bodies on the line, this is a slap in the face of the families affected that risked arrest to come forward and a direct escalation of the fascist state’s attack on immigrants. STOP THIS FASCIST VIOLENCE NOW! SHUT IT DOWN! STOP ICE TERROR!
READ ON FOR MORE, SEE POSTS IN EVENT FOR DETAILS.
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On Tuesday morning, it was revealed that ICE’s Gotham Investigative Case Management contract with Palantir, originally set to expire on Sept 25, has been renewed through 2022. Activists and immigrants have been putting their bodies on the line nationwide to pressure Palantir to drop its contracts with ICE, yet Palantir continues to prop up the deportation and detention machine. We cannot stand by to watch ANY LONGER.
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Despite the willingness of Palantir executives to lie and deny responsibility, we know that this tech is part of all ICE operations. Palantir is complicit in the the dehumanization, terrorization, mass detention, and sometimes even murder of immigrants. Though the immigrant deportation and detention is just one part of its reign of terror, Palantir earns millions of dollars through its contracts with ICE. Through its facilitation of state surveillance, Palantir is enabling fascism.
According to research published by The Intercept, “ICM specifically allows ICE agents to access a vast “ecosystem” of data to facilitate immigration officials in both discovering targets and then creating and administering cases against them. The system provides its users access to intelligence platforms maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and an array of other federal and private law enforcement entities. It can provide ICE agents access to information on a subject’s schooling, family relationships, employment information, phone records, immigration history, foreign exchange program status, personal connections, biometric traits, criminal records, and home and work addresses.” By the DHS’s own admission, ICM is proprietary to Palantir: “Palantir owns and maintains the code and info tech necessary to support the system.”
Activists, academics, and even Palantir employees themselves have begged executives to drop its contracts with ICE. But Palantir continues to profit off of terror and the separation of families. Palantir is actively destroying our communities. We cannot wait for a new president to reform an inherently fascistic and white supremacist institution. ICE is holding our communities in unlivable conditions, leaving even children vulnerable to sexual abuse and even death. It’s on us to act NOW to disarm and abolish ICE and all forms of oppression.
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The company has faced frequent protests and direct actions calling to shut down operations and drop ICE contracts at its headquarters this past year—from Palo Alto to New York—and internal worker demands that it stop facilitating ICE’s deportation machine.
None of this has impacted Palantir’s moral calculus. Palantir’s decision to continue funding ICE operations after repeated community pressure outlining the direct harms of its software is a direct escalation in Palantir’s attack on immigrants and a slap in the face of the thousands of immigrants stolen for deportation throughout the country.
Everyone should be worried about this expansion. Palantir’s state surveillance tools allow any racist agency they contract with to track individuals in real time through unfiltered access to their every movement associated with a vehicle, each purchase, every family relationship, and more with no oversight. According to research published by The Intercept, “ICM specifically allows ICE agents to access a vast “ecosystem” of data to facilitate immigration officials in both discovering targets and then creating and administering cases against them. The system provides its users access to intelligence platforms maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and an array of other federal and private law enforcement entities. It can provide ICE agents access to information on a subject’s schooling, family relationships, employment information, phone records, immigration history, foreign exchange program status, personal connections, biometric traits, criminal records, and home and work addresses.” By the DHS’s own admission, ICM is proprietary to Palantir: “Palantir owns and maintains the code and info tech necessary to support the system.”
In sum, Palantir has helped create the fascist state surveillance network many have feared would come. This technology in the hands of an increasingly fascist and racist state should alarm everyone with incessant urgency.
Palantir will continue to make hundreds of millions of dollars collaborating with the military-industrial-intelligence complex as families live in fear. This escalation by Palantir and refusal to cease collaborating with state terror should be seen as the escalation of fascist tendencies within the United States. Palantir would not exist without the Department of Defense and CIA funding — this plan to subject immigrants and asylum seekers to three more years of terror and explicit violence is as an escalation of the state’s attack on immigrants.
The Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps-Bay Area condemns the renewal of the contract between Palantir and ICE for the use of the Gotham Investigative Case Management system. Our coalition of over 20 migrant rights and activists organizations have united for the goal of abolishing ICE and freeing communities impacted by the surveillance state that entities like Palantir have helped create.
Evidence gathered by Mijente about Palantir’s work and the willingness of Palantir executives to lie about the extent of their relationship with ICE has made it clear that the way forward is the immediate resignation of those responsible for ICE contracts and an end to any involvement with ICE and similar government agencies.
This year, Palantir was revealed to be involved in the arrests of at least 443 people—mothers, fathers, cousins, and other family members and sponsors who were arrested when ICE investigated children who crossed the border alone.
Palantir was kicked out of a prestigious academic conference when hundreds of academics said they would not be associated with a company that enables human rights abuses. Aside from fueling the deportation and detention machine, Palantir also provides software for racist predictive policing programs that assign points to how likely an individual is to commit crime and builds tools for the Pentagon used in wars that create the refugee crisis in the first place.
Palantir was shown to be intimately involved in workplace raids, like the raids led by ICE this month that arrested almost 700 people in Mississippi—the largest such raid in a decade. These raids have increased by 650% under President Trump, targeting thousands of people annually for arrest and deportation.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Join our protest against Julian Assange’s U.S. Extradition and Chelsea Manning’s imprisonment. We’ll chant for their freedom, distribute fliers and engage with the public over a two hour call to action, at the Powell & Market Cable Car turnaround.
“The days when I could read and speak and organize to defend myself, my ideals, and my people are over until I am free! Everyone else must take my place.” – Julian Assange, from Belmarsh Prison
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Meet at West Oakland Bart at 11:00 AM or at the San Quentin Entrance at 12:30 PM.
Sign up for bus or carpooling at bayareaprisonstrike@gmail.com or 781-689-0251
On April 15th, 2018 seven comrades lost their lives in a senseless uprising that could have been avoided if it were not for the greed wrought by mass incarceration and the lack of respect for human life that is embedded in our nation’s penal ideology.
Prisoners are demanding humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, a change in sentencing policies, a right to vote, and the end to modern-day slavery.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators