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<br />Flores, Dora <br />From:Parker, Amy <amyipdev@csu.fullerton.edu> <br />Sent:Wednesday, <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:Public Comment (Read and Distribute to Councilmembers) <br />Hello City Councilmembers, <br /> <br />I call on you today to immediately stop funding the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West <br />Bank. Based on recent public records obtained by the Open Information Collective, in the past two <br />years, the City of Santa Ana has spent $386,902.54 on products from Siemens, $149,507.96 on <br />products from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and $11,018.48 on products from HP proper. <br /> <br />Siemens' spinoff company, Yunex, was instrumental in the construction of Highway 16, which is <br />designed for Israeli settler-colonialists to be able to more easily access the Palestinian Quarter of <br />Jerusalem (also known as Quds), driving out Palestinians and forming new, illegal settlements. They <br />also were awarded contracts for the EuroAsia Interconnector, which is a project to allow Israeli <br />settlements to cheaply purchase fossil fuel-based electricity from Europe, accelerating the genocide of <br />Palestine and further contributing to the climate crisis. <br /> <br />HP and HPE are also directly complicit in this genocide. They sell equipment to the Israeli military, <br />which is currently butchering and bombing Gaza; over 30,000 Palestinians, including 10,000 children, <br />have already been slaughtered. Their technology is also used for facial recognition to enforce Israeli <br />apartheid, keeping out and monitoring Palestinians. <br /> <br />How the City spends its money shows its priorities. Budgets are moral documents, and the City has so <br />far shown that it is fully willing to support companies that perpetuate genocide. I call for the City to <br />immediately divest from, and cancel all contracts/future orders with, Siemens, HP, and HPE, as well as <br />the other companies mentioned by the BDS National Committee as being complicit in the genocide <br />of Palestine. <br /> <br />If you have any questions, please contact me via the City Clerk (who has my information), or through <br />my email at amyipdev@csu.fullerton.edu. Thank you, and I look forward to action by this Council. <br /> <br />-- <br />Amy Iris Parker <br />she/her/hers <br />CSUF CS '25 <br />C: ( <br />W: oic.amyip.net M: <br />G: 7786034BD52149F51B0A2A14B1122F04E962DDC5 <br />K: keys.openpgp.org <br />1 <br />