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Activists urge Denver to investigate and divest from firms tied to Israel and surveillance technology
Summary
Public commenters on Aug. 18 urged the council to investigate city holdings and contracts in companies they said support actions in Gaza or provide surveillance technology, specifically naming Palantir and Caterpillar and urging divestment or contract review.
Several people at the Aug. 18 public comment session asked the Denver City Council to examine and, where appropriate, divest city investments or end contracts with companies they said were implicated in violence in Gaza or in local surveillance practices.
"Your investments in Caterpillar... are complicit in this genocide if you're not taking any action," said Laura Gonzalez, a commenter who urged the council to "boycott the investments and stocks and bonds that the city of Denver has in companies that directly make the genocide happen in Gaza and the West Bank." Gonzalez also named…
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