# João Paulo Connolly Palestinian-American labor and tech-accountability organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Serves as **Organizing Director at [[Working Partnerships USA]]**, a worker-advocacy and policy organization rooted in the South Bay / Silicon Valley region. Also active with [[Bay Resistance]] Silicon Valley and a participant in the CalSTRS Divest campaign, which pressures the California State Teachers' Retirement System to divest from weapons manufacturers and surveillance-tech firms supplying Israeli forces. ## Role in Purge Palantir Connolly is a lead organizer of the [[Purge Palantir]] coalition alongside [[Jacinta González]]. He helps anchor the campaign's Bay Area tactical front — including direct action at Palantir's Palo Alto offices — and its Palestine-solidarity coalition dimension. His organizing integrates three threads that the Purge Palantir coalition treats as inseparable: 1. **Labor / worker surveillance** — Palantir's hospital scheduling products (Timpani / HCA Inspire) and workplace analytics tools, connected via Connolly's labor-organizing base at Working Partnerships USA. 2. **Pension-fund divestment** — CalSTRS and other public employee pension funds holding Palantir equity, tying the campaign into the broader weapons-divestment infrastructure. 3. **Palestine solidarity** — Palantir's role in surveillance and targeting tools used against Palestinians, connecting the campaign to BDS-adjacent organizing via the Boycott National Committee and [[Jewish Voice for Peace]]. Connolly was featured in the April 2026 [[Gil Durán]] interview in *[The Nerd Reich](https://www.thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-palantir/)* as a primary voice on the campaign's tactics, targeting theory, and coalition architecture. ## Strategic Role Connolly's contribution to the coalition is the **labor-and-tech interface**: making Palantir's workplace-surveillance products visible to workers whose schedules, productivity metrics, and staffing decisions are increasingly routed through Palantir infrastructure. That frame is what allowed National Nurses United to join the coalition via the HCA Inspire / Timpani fight, and what makes the campaign legible to unionized public-sector workforces beyond the traditional tech-accountability audience. ## See Also - [[Working Partnerships USA]] - [[Bay Resistance]] - [[Purge Palantir]] - [[Palantir]] - [[Jacinta González]] - [[Gil Durán]] - [[Palantir ICE Systems]]