Soros and Pro-China Money Behind Coordinated Protests Targeting American Tech Giants

The Scene in Florida: More Than Meets the Eye

While U.S. and Israeli forces were conducting joint military operations against Iran, a small crowd gathered outside the new Aventura, Florida headquarters of Palantir Technologies — a defense and government contractor known for powering AI-driven military targeting, surveillance systems, and immigration enforcement under programs like "Project Maven."

At the center of the scene, a woman named Britney Cooke struck a piñata shaped like President Donald Trump as onlookers cheered. Cooke isn't just a random activist — she's a member of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, a pro-China organization that openly advocates for an "international socialist revolution," condemns what it calls "U.S. hegemony," and pushes for an "anti-imperialist mass revolutionary movement" launched from within the United States.

Local media portrayed the event as a passionate grassroots gathering. But a deeper investigation tells a very different story.

Follow the Money: Soros and Singham Connections

A thorough review of nonprofit tax filings, grant records, and internal organizing materials reveals that the protest was not a spontaneous community action. Instead, it was carefully coordinated by organizations embedded within a well-funded, far-left protest infrastructure connected to two prominent financiers: billionaire George Soros and Neville Roy Singham, an American-born self-described Marxist currently based in Shanghai who openly backs the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

One of the key groups leading the Florida demonstration was Mijente, a Phoenix-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Since 2020, Mijente has received $1.6 million in funding from an Open Society philanthropy established by Soros. Open Society Foundations described the grant as support for Mijente's "social welfare activities" and its advocacy for civil and human rights.

Mijente spearheads campaigns including #NoTechForICE and "Take Back Tech" — the latter planning its third annual conference in Atlanta to develop strategy against what it calls the "Tech Oligarchy."

The co-sponsor of Mijente's "Take Back Tech" initiative is the Center for Media Justice, an Oakland-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit reporting $4.3 million in revenues, which has also received more than $2 million over the years from Soros' Open Society network.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation: Foot Soldiers on the Ground

The Florida protest was co-organized by the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) — a group tied to the Singham-funded protest network. PSL members are a familiar sight at anti-U.S. demonstrations, typically dressed in their signature bright red shirts bearing the organization's name.

At the Aventura event, PSL's Miami chapter leader Romeo Umana took the microphone and declared: "We refuse to let Miami become the Silicon Valley of surveillance repression — no to mass surveillance, no to mass deportation, and no to genocide."

Umana was described by at least one media outlet simply as an "activist," while Cooke was identified only through her affiliation with an obscure-sounding group called the Climate Organizing Hub — omitting her membership in the explicitly revolutionary All-African People's Revolutionary Party.

The PSL operates in close coordination with other Singham-funded organizations, including People's Forum Inc. and CodePink Women for Peace. These groups have publicly praised the governments of China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela while labeling the United States "fascist." People's Forum, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, reported $7 million in revenue in its most recent tax filing.

A Professional Protest Infrastructure

Experts who reviewed the findings describe this network as a professional protest operation — not organic civic engagement. The infrastructure includes:

• Tax-exempt nonprofit organizations providing financial cover
• Pre-produced digital messaging toolkits
• Coordinated protest actions executed simultaneously across multiple U.S. cities
• Shared leadership, research, and communications across affiliated groups

In recent years, this same network has organized demonstrations against Amazon, Google, and Microsoft over their contracts with U.S. military and law enforcement agencies. Meanwhile, the organizations involved have expressed support for governments with documented records of suppressing civil liberties and conducting mass surveillance on their own citizens.

Experts Raise National Security Alarms

Chuck Flint, president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability and a former assistant prosecutor in Florida, didn't mince words when presented with the findings.

"This type of fake activism disturbs me," Flint said. "These groups are helping China and hurting the United States."

He added: "This is certainly not grassroots activism. It looks more like a foreign influence operation that is actually weaponizing American tax laws to undermine American national security interests — and it's coming at a time when U.S. troops are relying on Palantir technology in active combat right now."

Flint called on the IRS to investigate the nonprofits within this network and potentially strip them of their tax-exempt status. He also urged the Department of Justice to examine whether these organizations are violating laws requiring foreign-interest representatives to register as foreign lobbyists.

"You should not get a federal tax subsidy to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party," Flint stated. "This is disguised activism. It's really foreign influence."

Anti-American Rhetoric and Foreign Allegiances

The ideological alignment of these groups is not subtle. In late 2024, People's Forum hosted an event alongside the All-African People's Revolutionary Party in which organizers declared: "War, genocide and exploitation of labor and resources are sewed into the fabric of the American empire, irrespective of which ruling-class party holds presidential office."

The event was advertised on Action Network, a platform widely used by Democratic-aligned organizations, and continued: "The U.S. is an enemy to Africans and Palestinians alike. It is of necessity that we colonized and oppressed peoples in the belly of the beast build a unified anti-imperialist mass revolutionary movement to consolidate our power and put an end to U.S. hegemony."

After the Cameras Left

When the Florida protest wrapped up, organizers collected their pre-printed signs, packed up their speaker system, and gathered the remains of the Trump piñata. Television crews, having captured their footage of "passionate protesters," departed down U.S. Route 1.

Palantir declined to comment. Singham did not respond to requests for comment. But the questions raised by the protest — about foreign influence, nonprofit accountability, and the line between legitimate activism and coordinated foreign-linked operations — are unlikely to disappear anytime soon.