On Monday, activists gathered to protest in front of Palantir offices in multiple cities, including Seattle, Palo Alto, Denver and here in New York. NYPD arrested six people as demonstrators called out the tech giant for “turbocharging ICE deportations, complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, and expanding surveillance of every U.S. resident.” In Denver, former Palantir employee Juan Sebastián Pinto addressed a crowd in front of the company’s Colorado headquarters.

Juan Sebastián Pinto: “Francesca Albanese, an incredible representative for human rights at the U.N., an independent observer, who recently released a report accusing multiple American companies of participating in the prolongation of genocide in Palestine for profit. Now they are turning inwards. These are companies like — not only like Palantir, but IBM and Google, Meta” —

Audience member: “Cisco.”

Juan Sebastián Pinto: “Cisco.”

Audience member: “Amazon.”

Juan Sebastián Pinto: “Amazon, all of them contributing to creating these enormous dragnets that allow people to be targeted for their personal data, for their family connections, for their beliefs, in ways they don’t even understand. And they’re bringing these same kinds of targeting technologies here to America.”

We’ll hear voices from the New York City Palantir protest later in the broadcast.