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DESCRIPTION:EVENT ENDED AT 1:30 THANK U.\nUC BERKELEY: SHOW PALANTIR THEY’RE NOT 
 WELCOME HERE!\n \nSAVE THE DATE! On September 24, the tech giant that 
 powers ICE, Palantir Technologies, plans to visit UC Berkeley for a 
 so-called “Ethics & Tech Panel” to recruit Berkeley tech students. 
 Palantir is working hand-in-hand with ICE to build tools to surveil, 
 detain, and deport migrants and keep kids locked in cages -- and UC 
 Berkeley's EECS department has a $20,000 a year contract with the 
 corporation, meaning this institution is directly complicit in ICE 
 terror.\n \nTHE TIME TO STAND UP TO PALANTIR AND ICE IS NOW. Our tuition 
 fuels deportations.\n \nWe’re demanding Berkeley cancel the info 
 session:\nhttps://actionnetwork.org/petitions/bears-against-ice-tell-eecs-to-cancel-info-session-with-palantir-the-tech-giant-behind-ices-deportation-machine\n 
 \nIf they don’t, be ready to join us in protest outside the event on 
 campus -- MEETING TIME TO BE ANNOUNCED.\n \nPalantir's surveillance 
 technology is "mission critical" to ICE's operations, according to the 
 agency itself, and the company relies on the labor of EECS, CS, and Data 
 Science graduates to develop it. These tools explicitly enable ICE to 
 detain and deport immigrants with ruthless efficiency.\n \nThis year, 
 Palantir technology was used to arrest at least 443 mothers, fathers, and 
 other family members and sponsors when ICE investigated children who 
 crossed the border alone. Palantir was shown to be intimately involved in 
 the workplace raid 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 annually for arrest and 
 deportation. Without the Palantir technology that enables ICE to live track 
 families, these numbers would be far lower. The company has faced outcry 
 this year, calling for it to stop facilitating the ICE deportation 
 machine.\n \nCal’s engineering and data science curricula parade 
 “ethics” as a required component of our education. Collaborating with 
 Palantir not only abandons our university’s commitment as a so-called 
 sanctuary campus to protect our undocumented students, but directly 
 contradicts its own curriculum. Members of our community study long and 
 hard with the eventual goal of using these skills to improve society 
 through technology’s potential. Palantir is attempting to recruit us to 
 do the opposite.\n \nFellow students: don’t be complicit! REFUSE to work 
 with Palantir or attend the info session. Join hundreds of tech workers 
 saying #TechWontBuildIt, pledging they will not build tools for immigration 
 enforcement:\nhttps://action.mijente.net/petitions/tell-palantir-to-drop-its-contracts-with-ice-uc-berkeley-students\n 
 \nDEMAND the event is 
 cancelled:\nhttps://actionnetwork.org/petitions/bears-against-ice-tell-eecs-to-cancel-info-session-with-palantir-the-tech-giant-behind-ices-deportation-machine\n 
 \nIf it isn’t, STAND WITH US on the 24th! We are calling on all those who 
 denounce ICE’s reign of terror to join in action. More details to come!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/23/18826622.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Mobilization: UC Berkeley Drop Palantir! #NoTechForICE
LOCATION:PLEASE NOTE: EVENT ENDED AT 1:30PM \n430 Soda Hall, Wozniak Hall, UC 
 Berkeley\nTelegraph & Bancroft\nBerkeley\nCalifornia 94720
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/23/18826622.php
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