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DESCRIPTION:PALANTIR, NEVER AGAIN IS NOW!\n\n#JewsAgainstICE and allies know our 
 history. IBM sold tech to Nazis. Palantir sells tech to ICE. This state 
 sponsored terror must end NOW. Join us in actions to shut down Palantir 
 from coast to coast on 9/13 to demand they #DropICEContracts.\n\nBecause 
 #NeverAgainisNOW! 
 \n—————————————————————\n\nWe are 
 calling on all those who denounce ICE’s reign of terror to join in action 
 outside the Palo Alto headquarters of Palantir, a tech company that 
 provides tools for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\n\nLast month, 
 Palantir renewed its contract with ICE, providing a tool that has been used 
 by ICE agents in investigations of children who crossed the border alone 
 and their families. This tool, called Investigative Case Management, was 
 used by ICE agents in an operation that specifically targeted the families 
 and sponsors of unaccompanied children, comparing them to “smugglers” 
 and investigating them for arrest and deportation.\n\nPalantir has another 
 tool that was used by agents leading workplace raids, which spiked 650% in 
 President Trump’s first year in office, and we have seen ICE agents 
 tackling people to the floor, handcuffing them, and loading them onto buses 
 in front of their friends and family. \n\nPALANTIR MUST DROP THESE 
 CONTRACTS\n\nThe signing date for Palantir’s ICM contract is September 
 20. It’s not too late for Palantir to pledge it will not work for ICE’s 
 deportation machine. It’s not too late for Palantir workers to join 
 hundreds of other tech workers saying #TechWontBuildIt and pledge that they 
 will not use their skill to build tools for immigration 
 enforcement.\n\nPalantir is complicit. As IBM made punch cards for Nazi 
 Germany or as Hugo Boss designed uniforms for the Nazi SS, so is Palantir 
 hitching its legacy to a machine of human rights atrocities that will live 
 in infamy. History teaches all of us that we must not repeat the mistakes 
 of previous generations, mistakes that lead to grave amounts of human 
 suffering.\n\nWe are seeing this suffering today — in concentration camps 
 detaining thousands and thousands throughout the country, at our border 
 where people are arbitrarily prevented from entering, and in workplaces, 
 schools, and homes nationwide subject to cruel deportation raids. We refuse 
 to stand by and see what new terror the administration will roll out with 
 its corporate partners.\n\nTHE TIME TO STAND UP TO PALANTIR IS NOW\n\nWe 
 know that the pressure of the people is working and that our protesting is 
 getting to Palantir’s decision makers. Tech conferences, not wanting to 
 be associated with human rights atrocities, have been dropping Palantir as 
 their sponsors. Palantir co-founder Joe Londsdale felt the need to write an 
 op-ed defending his former company. And CEO Alex Karp was motivated to 
 publish an op-ed in the Washington Post in a vain attempt to absolve 
 Palantir of its role in ICE’s terrorism.\n\nUntil Palantir cuts its ties 
 with ICE, we will make it impossible for them to do business as usual. We 
 have learned a simple lesson from past human rights violations: It is only 
 by sitting by and doing nothing that we allow suffering on our watch. 
 Collaborators are complicit. We have a duty to oppose them.\nPalantir must 
 be held accountable. It’s time for tech workers throughout Silicon Valley 
 to choose a side. Join us and demand that they do. 
 #NoTechforICE\n\nAccessibility: Message us for information on an accessible 
 march. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/10/18826145.php
SUMMARY:Palantir: Never Again Is Now! #NoTechForICE
LOCATION:100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301-1616, United States
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/10/18826145.php
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