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Request for executive action on state contracts and subsidies

To: Gov. Newsom

From: A verified voter in Oakland, CA

April 20

I am a constituent writing to ask you to consider two executive actions. First, an executive order terminating state contracts with ten companies whose ongoing anti-humanitarian conduct is documented in federal court filings, United Nations reports, and major investigative journalism. Second, a directive to state economic development agencies to end any active subsidy agreements with those companies. The companies are Palantir, Google (Alphabet), Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Elbit Systems, Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and BlackRock. Palantir built the platform ICE used to conduct raids a federal judge ruled unconstitutional in February 2026, and has been identified by the United Nations as the likely supplier of the infrastructure behind the Israeli military’s kill-list targeting systems. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence services used to generate targeting data in the ongoing war in Gaza. Meta’s algorithmic systems were central to the Rohingya genocide and remain in use. Elbit drones killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in April 2024 (among countless other innocent civilians). Boeing and Raytheon munitions have been recovered at civilian casualty strike sites across Yemen. Lockheed’s GBU-12 Paveway II killed forty children on a Yemeni school bus. The executive mechanism is already established and in use in the opposite direction. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy’s Administrative Order 352 conditions all Alaska state contracts over one hundred thousand dollars on the contractor not participating in any boycott of Israel. The same executive authority that conditions contracts on one set of criteria can condition them on another, and the same authority that signs a contract can sign an order terminating it. I would be grateful for a written response within thirty days on what your office is considering and the timeline, so I can share the update with others who are asking about this. Thank you for the work you are doing on behalf of our state.

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