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DESCRIPTION:NNU nurses to participate in nationwide protests against Palantir\nNational 
 Nurses 
 United\nhttps://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nnu-nurses-to-participate-in-nationwide-protests-against-palantir\nAugust 
 24, 2026\n\nUnion RNs demand: ‘Palantir out of our hospitals and out of 
 our society’\nOn Thursday, Aug. 27, registered nurses – joined by 
 patients and community allies – will be mobilizing nationwide to demand 
 hospitals and elected officials immediately cut ties with the artificial 
 intelligence giant Palantir. The nurses belong to National Nurses United, 
 the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, which has opposed 
 Palantir’s growth as a dangerous threat to democracy and human rights. 
 \nThursday's demonstrations are the largest coordinated, national actions 
 NNU nurses and their allies have organized to date against Palantir. Each 
 demonstration will visually represent the cost of Palantir’s 
 technologies, including the approximately 500 babies and more than 6,000 
 children who have been detained by ICE and CBP since the second Trump term 
 began. Palantir developed and now operates an application used by federal 
 agents, called ELITE, which identifies people for arrest using improperly 
 obtained Medicaid data.\n“No part of the country has been untouched by 
 the terror and violence of ICE and CBP, enabled by Palantir’s 
 technology,” said NNU President Jamie Brown, RN. “While nurses have had 
 to witness the fear and desperation of our patients and neighbors facing 
 the threat of immigration raids, we have also seen hospitals start to 
 buckle under conditions of extreme scarcity. That's why we have to resist a 
 future where tech billionaires control our politics and our public 
 resources. Otherwise, we will see fewer and fewer resources for working 
 people – for our health care, for our education, for our housing.”\nThe 
 August 27 actions will take place in Palo Alto, Calif.; Los Angeles, 
 Calif.; Chicago, Ill.; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Maine; Asheville, N.C., 
 Austin, Texas; and New Orleans, La. \nNurses say: “Palantir 
 Out!”\nPalantir’s growing notoriety – fueled by a growing wave of 
 grassroots protests organized by nurses and criticism from employees, 
 clients, and elected officials – have threatened its business and made 
 its brand politically toxic in the United States and abroad. However, 
 Palantir continues to benefit from its close relationship with the Trump 
 administration, and, increasingly, with the U.S. hospital 
 industry.\nAlready, Palantir manages more than one-fifth of U.S. hospital 
 beds. For nurses, this marks a dangerous threat to the nursing profession, 
 which is seeing a glut of untested and unregulated technology introduced 
 into patient care settings.\nThe firm’s technology is already being used 
 for automated scheduling and staffing in the largest for-profit hospital 
 group in the country, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Timpani, 
 otherwise known as HCA Inspire, is used for nursing staff scheduling, 
 removing hospitals’ local managers from staffing decisions and replacing 
 them with an anonymous office in Nashville. \nEven these limited 
 applications are already exacerbating the nationwide staffing crisis, as 
 executives are rushing to use untested and unregulated technology to 
 replace clinical judgement and make critical health care decisions like how 
 many nurses are on a unit to take care of patients on a shift.\nOther 
 hospitals represented by NNU, like MaineHealth, are also using Palantir 
 technologies. As with HCA, MaineHealth has refused to disclose the extent 
 of the hospital’s cooperation with Palantir, including how patients’ 
 and health care workers’ data are being protected. That lack of 
 transparency only underscores the importance of demanding hospitals purge 
 Palantir out of their operations. \nWhile the U.S. government and 
 corporations award the company billions of dollars in contracts to 
 Palantir, U.S. hospitals are facing a dire threat. The U.S. federal 
 government has cut more than a trillion dollars in funding for Medicaid and 
 Affordable Care Act subsidies, which threatens health coverage for tens of 
 thousands of people and risks closures and service cuts at more than 600 
 hospitals nationwide, according to new NNU research.\nFrom 2009 to 2025, 
 Palantir received $2.5 billion in federal government funding, but this 
 number has grown tremendously in just the past year. Last July, the 
 Department of Defense announced a $10 billion agreement with Palantir. This 
 followed a $30 million contract awarded to Palantir by the Department of 
 Homeland Security to build an AI-powered system that would identify 
 immigrants for deportation. In Feb. 2026, the Department of Homeland 
 Security and Palantir signed a $1 billion contract. \nIn addition to 
 working closely with the U.S. government, Palantir has also entered into 
 partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense to support their “war 
 effort” in Gaza which Israeli human rights organizations, the globe’s 
 leading association of genocide scholars, and a United Nations Special 
 Committee, among others, have concluded is a genocide. More than 1,500 
 health care workers, in addition to tens of thousands of innocent 
 civilians, have been murdered in Gaza since Israeli forces invaded in 
 October 2023.\n\nNational Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing 
 union and professional association of registered nurses in the United 
 States with more than 225,000 members nationwide. NNU affiliates include 
 California Nurses\n 
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SUMMARY:Palantir OUT! NNU nurses to participate in nationwide protests against Palantir
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