"The protesters called on PG&E to cancel its contract with the tech company Palantir, a data and artificial intelligence outfit that has become the focus of ire over the past year due to its extensive work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The activist group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action carried out the protest; ACCE campaign director Eric Lerner told SFGATE that they attempted to give a demands letter to Andrew Abranches, PG&E's vice president of wildfire mitigation,"
"Video footage from Tuesday shows a batch of protesters pushing to the front of the panel's room and mounting the stage while chanting and waving blue signs. Their signs read, "Utility companies!!! No contracts with Palantir Technologies. Palantir's $30 million ICE contract facilitates the cruel assault on people & our constitutional rights." About half a minute into the disruption, the panel's moderator suggested that audience members leave and gestured that the panelists should go."
A few dozen protesters disrupted the DTECH energy conference in San Diego, interrupting a morning panel and causing speakers, including a PG&E executive, to leave the stage. The demonstrators, organized by the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action, demanded that PG&E cancel its contract with Palantir because of Palantir’s work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters entered through a side door at the San Diego Convention Center and tried to give a demands letter to Andrew Abranches, PG&E’s vice president of wildfire mitigation; Abranches left without taking it. Video shows protesters mounting the stage, chanting, and displaying signs condemning Palantir’s ICE contract. The panel focused on technology to locate and identify wildfires and PG&E’s use of Palantir Foundry for targeted power-shutdown prevention.
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