-- Stuart
Salesforce sells (expensive) software for keeping track of contacts with people. Lots of companies and institutions (including U of I) use it. So does Customs and Border Patrol:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-salesforce-cancel-their-contract-customs-and-border-patrol/
Salesforce's own employees have asked their company to drop its CBP contract
(see links below), and their CEO has so far refused. Instead,
Salesforce offered to send $1 million to "help families affected by
the Trump administration policy".
They offered $250K to RAICES, an immigrants' rights group in
Texas. RAICES refused on principle, so long as Salesforce has any
direct or indirect contracts with CBP: https://www.facebook.com/slpnggiants/posts/2088546331388005
... "Your software provides an operational backbone for the
agency, and thus does directly support CBP in implementing its
inhumane and immoral policies. There is no way around this, and
no room for hair splitting when children are being brutally torn
away from parents, when a mother attempts suicide in an effort to
get her children released, and when an 18 month old baby is
separated from their mother in detention. ...
We will not be a beneficiary of your effort to buy your way out of
ethical responsibility." ...
I signed the petition.
Stuart
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Subject:
Tell Salesforce to cancel their contract with Border
Patrol
Date:
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 14:37:57 +0000 (UTC)
From:
Reuben Hayslett, Watchdog.net
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Tell
Salesforce to cancel their
contract with border
patrol!
SIGN
THE PETITION
Stuart,
Just like
ICE, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)
are tasked with carrying out Trump’s
horrific “zero tolerance” policy at
the border. They help
detain asylum seekers
indefinitely, and they couldn’t do
it without Salesforce.
Salesforce
employees were shocked to discover
their role in caging families at the
border. When they joined
together to ask CEO Marc Benioff
to re-evaluate Salesforce’s
contract with CBP, he refused.1
Now it’s our
turn. As concerned consumers, and
potentially even clients of
Salesforce, we can use our voice to
call out Salesforce and demand they
cancel their contract. Tell
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to
cancel the contract with Customs
and Border Patrol.
Back in
March, Salesforce was over
the moon to land a contract with
CBP to “manage border activities
and digital engagement with
citizens.”2 Once
family separations at the border
became public knowledge, Salesforce
was quick to eat their words.
Salesforce
CEO Marc Benioff has claimed to be
outraged by Trump’s family
separation and indefinite detention,
but so far he won’t walk
the walk and cancel the contract.
The pressure
is mounting3 for tech companies
who allow – and profit from – their
services being weaponized to carry
through Trump’s hateful border
policies. Working with
Color of Change, Presente and
dozens of progressive
organizations, Demand Progress has
already called on Microsoft to
cancel their ICE.
Tell
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to
stand on the moral side of
history and cancel the contract
with Customs and Border Patrol.
Thanks for
taking action,
Reuben and the team at Demand
Progress
DONATE
Sources:
1. Gizmodo, “Salesforce CEO Says It
Won't Sever Ties With Customs and
Border Protection,” June 28,
2018.
2. Footwear News, “U.S. Homeland
Security Agency Taps Salesforce to
Better Manage Border Activities,” March 9,
2018.
3. Business Insider, “Activists
marched outside of the Salesforce
headquarters in San Francisco to
protest the company's contract with
U.S. Customs and Border Protection,”
July 9,
2018.
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