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DESCRIPTION:PALANTIR OUT! ICE OUT!\n\nStop AI fascism and tech-assisted violence 
 against immigrants now!\n\nPalantir helps ICE target, track, and detain our 
 neighbors. This tech has no place in our communities. On Sept. 30, we’re 
 marching to San Francisco’s ICE detention center and saying: Patients 
 over Palantir! \n\nWhat: People vs. Palantir Global Week of Action – San 
 Francisco / Bay Area\n\nWhen: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026 at 1:30 
 p.m.\n\nWhere: March begins at Jessie Square (760 Mission St.) proceeding 
 toward ICE building (630 Sansome Street). \n\nWho: National Nurses United 
 and affiliate California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing 
 Committee\n\n\nPRESS RELEASE by CNA:\n\nIn San Francisco on Wednesday, 
 Sept. 30, more than a thousand nurses, along with community members, will 
 mobilize against the notorious artificial intelligence giant, Palantir. 
 Palantir has a track record of building A.I. tools for large-scale data 
 collection and mass surveillance that threaten human rights.\n\nThe 
 Wednesday action – organized by the nation’s largest union of 
 registered nurses National Nurses United (NNU) and its affiliate California 
 Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) – is 
 part of the People vs. Palantir Global Week of Action. From September 28 to 
 October 1, thousands of people across multiple continents will demand that 
 public institutions, hospitals, universities, and pension funds cancel 
 their existing contracts and relationships with Palantir. \n\nIn San 
 Francisco, registered nurses will march to the city’s ICE detention 
 center to call attention to Palantir’s collaboration with federal 
 immigration enforcement through its app called ELITE. ELITE is used by 
 federal agents to identify people for arrest using, in part, improperly 
 obtained Medicaid data.\n\n“Honoring our obligation to ‘do no harm’ 
 means that nurses must actively refuse Palantir’s role in our hospitals 
 and in our government,” said CNA/NNOC president Sandy Reding, RN. “The 
 violence and destruction unleashed by immigration agents and enabled by 
 Palantir is a total violation of nursing values of care and compassion. 
 That is why we unequivocally say ‘Purge Palantir!’” \n\nNNU nurses, 
 as part of the Purge Palantir coalition, have been putting Palantir’s 
 connections to the U.S. government, including elected representatives, and 
 the U.S. hospital industry in the spotlight. \n\nWhile the U.S. government 
 and corporations award billions of dollars in contracts to Palantir, the 
 U.S. health care system faces a dire threat. H.R. 1 is the 2025 budget 
 bill, pushed through by Republicans and President Trump, that cut more than 
 $1 trillion in Medicaid and Medicare funding to give billionaires tax 
 breaks, militarize immigration enforcement, and fund endless wars abroad. 
 Not only will these cuts threaten health coverage for millions of people, 
 they risk closures and service cuts at more than 600 hospitals nationwide, 
 according to recent NNU research.\n\nThe growth of A.I. companies like 
 Palantir is dependent on the growth of power- and water-intensive data 
 centers. Nearly three-quarters of Americans oppose the development of data 
 centers in their neighborhoods due to clear evidence about mounting 
 environmental damage, noise pollution, and the unmet promise of permanent 
 jobs to boost local economies. \n\nMore info here: 
 https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/thousand-nurses-in-sf-to-protest-ai-giants-work-with-ice-cbp\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/25/18888802.php
SUMMARY:People vs. Palantir! SF Protest March Against A.I. Tech Fascism & ICE Violence
LOCATION:March begins at Jessie Square (760 Mission St.) proceeding toward ICE 
 building (630 Sansome Street). 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/25/18888802.php
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