Palantir protest in Florida linked to socialist groups, investigation finds

As the United States and Israel continued joint military strikes against Iran earlier this week, a woman hit on a piñata resembling the president Donald Trump While a small crowd cheered and applauded.

But the scene was not in Tehran.

It was Aventura, Florida, out there Miaminear Palantir Technologies’ new headquarters, A Government contractor Who supports the United States army and Immigration enforcement Operations, incl “Project Maven” An organization that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to quickly analyze large amounts of data for military targeting and surveillance.

There, Brittney Cook, a member of the African People’s Revolutionary Party, a pro-China group, was pounding a piñata. He says publicly It wants an “international socialist revolution.”

It objected to “American hegemony” and “American empire” and called for a “mass anti-imperialist revolutionary movement” in the United States from within the “belly of the beast.”

Brittney Cook, a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, hits a piñata made to resemble President Donald Trump, on March 3, in Aventura, Florida. Her group seeks an “international socialist revolution.” (EG Squee for Fox News Digital)

While local coverage portrayed the gathering as a “crowd of people.” “The demonstrators” with “So much emotion,“, a Fox News Digital review of the nonprofit’s filings, grant records and organizing materials indicates that the event was organized by groups operating within a sophisticated donor-backed protest network with ties to far-left tycoons George Soros and Neville Roy Singham.

The findings raise questions about how coordinated activist campaigns — led by organizations such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which explicitly opposes American “imperialism” and praises hostile foreign regimes — are mobilizing against American military contractors amid escalating conflict abroad and intensifying technological competition with China. A Palantir spokesman declined to comment. Singham did not respond to requests for comment.

“This kind of fake activity bothers me,” said Chuck Flynt, president of the Coalition for IRS Accountability and a former Florida assistant attorney general. “These groups help China and harm the United States.”

“This is definitely not a grassroots activity,” Flynt told Fox News Digital. “It looks more like a foreign influence operation that is actually using U.S. tax laws as a weapon to undermine U.S. national security interests.”

He noted, “This comes at a time when American forces rely on Palantir technology in active combat at the present time.”

A Fox News Digital investigation found that protest campaigns operate along several axes that bring far-left groups together, forming an ecosystem of organizations that target tech companies on multiple issues, from immigration enforcement to predictive policing, military technology and healthcare data systems.

The operations behind these campaigns reflect what experts describe as a professional protest infrastructure, including tax-exempt nonprofits, digital messaging tools, and coordinated protest actions across multiple cities, with shared leadership, research, messaging, and organizing.

Network funded by tech tycoon loyal to Chinese Communist Party targets Palantir amid anti-US protests supporting regime in Iran

Romeo Umana, center, member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Brittney Cook, right, member of the African People’s Revolutionary Party, a socialist organization, protest near Palantir’s new headquarters in Florida. (EG Squee for Fox News Digital)

In recent years, this network has organized protests against companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft over their work with the US military and law enforcement agencies.

While China is locked in an AI race with the United States, the network has also supported regimes with a well-documented history of aggressive surveillance of their citizens and suppression of human rights.

The Florida demonstration was co-organized by the local chapter of the Party of Socialism and Liberation, the protest arm of a network funded by Singham, an American-born Marxist based in Shanghai who openly supports the Chinese Communist Party.

Another group leading the protests against tech companies — and the demonstration in Florida this week — is Phoenix-based Mijente, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that has received $1.6 million in funding since 2020 from one of Soros’s Open Society Charities.

Open Society Foundations And he supported Mijente’s defense of “civil rights and human rights”. In 2023, the open society He said The grant I gave to Mijente was “Grant Beneficiary Support”. [sic] Social welfare activities.” She did not respond to a request for comment.

On her most recent tax return, Mijente I mentioned $2.6 million in revenue. Mijente leads campaigns called #NoTechForICE and “Technology recovery” Which plans to hold its third conference in mid-April in Atlanta to chart its strategy for a “winning movement” against the “technological oligarchy.”

The co-sponsor of “Take Back Tech” is the Center for Media Justice, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, California, with revenue of $4.3 million, according to its report. Most recent tax returnand Donations From traditional Democratic charities, including $2 million over the years from Soros’s Open Society Network.

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Socialist organizations staged a protest outside Palantir headquarters, on March 3, in Aventura, Florida. (EG Squee for Fox News Digital)

Outside the entrance to the Aventura Mall, Kathy Carrillo, one of Megenti’s leaders, handed the microphone to Romeo Umana, leader of the Miami branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, for his remarks, while Cook, of the Pan African People’s Revolutionary Party, stood in the wings.

These groups have protested together against Israel, ICE, and the Trump administration.

In its coverage of the Florida protests, it used only one media outlet described Umana as an “activist” with the Party of Socialism and Liberation and Cook through her role with the innocuous group, the Climate Regulatory Centre.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, the Party of Socialism and Liberation co-organized a protest against Palantir’s new headquarters in Aventura, Florida. The organization is part of a pro-China network behind the protests against American technology companies. Roman Umana, leader of the Miami chapter of the Party of Socialism and Liberation, stands behind a member wearing the organization’s distinctive red T-shirt. (EG Squee for Fox News Digital)

For many years now, the Party of Socialism and Liberation has been sending its members to be soldiers in anti-American protests, wearing distinctive bright red T-shirts with the group’s name on the front.

“We refuse to let Miami become the Silicon Valley of surveillance suppression,” Umana said, reading his talking points from his cell phone, “so we say very clearly: No to mass surveillance! No to mass deportation! No to genocide!”

The Party of Socialism and Liberation works closely with other socialist organizations funded by Singham, including People’s Forum Inc. and CodePink Women for Peace, which praised the authoritarian governments leading China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Gaza and Venezuela, while calling the United States “fascist.”

The Party for Socialism and Liberation runs a financially opaque operation, but the People’s Forum, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization that hosts many of its events, I mentioned $7 million in revenue on most recent tax return.

TK, a former prosecutor who now leads the IRS’s accountability division, said the IRS should investigate nonprofits in this network to remove their nonprofit designations, and said the Justice Department should investigate the organizations for potential violations of laws that require groups and individuals representing foreign interests to register as foreign lobbyists.

“You should not get a federal tax subsidy to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party,” he said. “This is just a disguised activity and it’s actually a foreign influence. It’s not a grassroots activity.”

A group of anti-ICE agitators block the entrance to the offices of Palantir Technologies, on July 14, 2025, in New York City. (Lukman Vural Ilibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In late 2024, the People’s Forum Hosted an event With the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, which criticized the “American Empire,” he wrote: “War, genocide, and the exploitation of labor and resources are woven into the fabric of the American Empire, regardless of which party of the ruling class holds presidential office.”

The promotional campaign, which was announced on the Democratic Platform, Action Network, continued: “The United States is an enemy of Africans and Palestinians alike. It is necessary that we colonize and oppress the peoples in the belly of the beast, whose fates are linked to our homelands, and that we build a united mass revolutionary anti-imperialist movement to strengthen our power and put an end to American hegemony.”

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As Tuesday’s protest ended, event leaders gathered their pre-printed signs, speaker system and leftover piñatas. TV crews pulled out after documenting the group’s “passion” off U.S. Route 1.

Fox News Digital’s Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.

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