Amid ongoing U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran earlier this week, a notable scene unfolded in Florida: a woman vigorously attacked a piñata designed to look like former President Donald Trump, while onlookers cheered and applauded.

Contrary to what one might assume, this event did not take place in Tehran.

Instead, it happened in Aventura, Florida, near Miami, right outside the new base of operations for Palantir Technologies. This company, a prominent contractor for the U.S. government, plays a significant role in military and immigration enforcement projects, notably “Project Maven.” This initiative utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to swiftly process and analyze vast datasets for the purposes of military targeting and surveillance.

Leading the charge against the piñata was Britney Cooke, an affiliate of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. This group, known for its pro-China stance, advocates for a global socialist revolution.

The organization frequently criticizes “U.S. hegemony” and the “American empire,” pushing for a mass revolutionary movement within the United States to combat imperialism from inside what they describe as the “belly of the beast.”

Britney Cooke, a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, hits a piñata made to resemble President Donald Trump, March 3, in Aventura, Fla. Her group seeks an “international socialist revolution.” (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

While local coverage framed the gathering as “a crowd” of “protesters” with “plenty of passion,” a Fox News Digital review of nonprofit filings, grant records and organizing materials indicates the event was orchestrated by groups operating within a sophisticated, donor-backed protest network with ties to far-left tycoons George Soros and Neville Roy Singham. 

The findings raise questions about how coordinated activist campaigns — led by organizations, like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, that openly oppose U.S. “imperialism” and praise foreign adversarial regimes — are mobilizing against American military contractors amid escalating conflict abroad and intensifying technological competition with China. A spokesperson for Palantir declined to comment. Singham hasn’t responded to requests for comment.

“This type of fake activism disturbs me,” said Chuck Flint, president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability and a former assistant prosecutor in Florida. “These groups are helping China and hurting the United States.”

“This is certainly not grassroots activism,” Flint told Fox News Digital. “It looks more like a foreign influence operation that is actually weaponizing American tax laws to undermine American national security interests.”

He noted, “It’s coming at a time when U.S. troops are relying on Palantir technology in active combat right now.”

A Fox News Digital investigation found the protest campaigns operate through several hubs that bring far-left groups together, forming an ecosystem of organizations targeting technology firms on multiple issues, from immigration enforcement to predictive policing, military technology and healthcare data systems.

The operations behind these campaigns reflect what experts describe as a professional protest infrastructure, including tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, digital messaging tool kits and coordinated protest actions across multiple cities, with shared leadership, research, messaging and organizing.

Romeo Umana, center, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Britney Cooke, right, a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, a socialist organization, protest near Palantir’s new headquarters in Florida. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

In recent years, this network has organized protests against companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft over their work with U.S. military and law enforcement agencies.

As China wages an AI race with the U.S., the network has also supported regimes with well-documented histories of aggressive surveillance of their citizens and suppression of human rights.

The Florida demonstration was co-organized by the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a protest arm of a network funded by Singham, an American-born, self-described Marxist based in Shanghai, openly supporting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

Another group leading the protests against technology companies — and the demonstration in Florida this week — is Phoenix-based Mijente, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that has received $1.6 million in funding since 2020 from one of the Open Society philanthropies established by Soros. 

Open Society Foundations has supported Mijente’s advocacy for “civil and human rights.” In 2023, Open Society said its grant to Mijente was to “support the grantees [sic] social welfare activities.” It didn’t respond to a request for comment.

In its last tax filing, Mijente reported $2.6 million in revenues. Mijente leads campaigns called #NoTechForICE and “Take Back Tech,” which plans its third conference in mid-April in Atlanta to map its strategy for a “winning movement” against the “Tech Oligarchy.” 

Its “Take Back Tech” cosponsor is the Center for Media Justice, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Oakland, Calif., with $4.3 million in revenues, according to its most recent tax filing, and donations from traditionally Democratic philanthropies, including $2 million over the years from Soros’ Open Society network.

Socialist organizations organized a protest outside Palantir headquarters, March 3, in Aventura, Fla. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

Outside the entrance to the Aventura Mall, one of the Mijente leaders, Cathy Carrillo, handed the microphone to Romeo Umana, a leader with the Miami chapter of Party for Socialism and Liberation, for his remarks, as Cooke, from the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, stood in the flanks.

These groups have protested together against Israel, ICE and the Trump administration.

In its coverage of the Florida protest, one media outlet only described Umana as an “activist” with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Cooke by her role with an innocuous-sounding group, the Climate Organizing Hub.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, the Party for Socialism and Liberation co-organizes a protest against Palantir’s new headquarters in Aventura, Fla. The organization is part of a pro-China network behind protests against U.S. technology firms. Roman Umana, a leader with the Miami chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, stands behind a member wearing the organization’s distinct red shirt. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

For years now, the Party for Socialism and Liberation has dispatched its members to be foot soldiers at anti-U.S. protests, wearing distinct bright red shirts with the group’s name across the front.

Reading his talking points from a cellphone, Umana said, “We refuse to let Miami become the Silicon Valley of surveillance repression, so we say really clearly, ‘No to mass surveillance! No to mass deportation! And no to genocide!’”

The Party for Socialism and Liberation works closely with other socialist organizations funded by Singham, including the People’s Forum Inc. and CodePink Women for Peace, which have lauded the autocratic governments leading China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Gaza and Venezuela, while calling the U.S. “fascist.” 

The Party for Socialism and Liberation runs a financially opaque operation, but the People’s Forum, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that hosts many of its events, reported $7 million in revenue in its last tax filing.

TK, the former prosecutor now leading IRS Accountability, said that the IRS should investigate the nonprofits in this network to remove their nonprofit designations, and he said that the Justice Department should investigate the organizations for possible violations of laws that require groups and individuals that represent foreign interests to register as foreign lobbyists.

“You should not get a federal tax subsidy to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party,” he said. “This is just disguised activism that’s really foreign influence. It’s not grassroots activism.”

A group of anti-ICE agitators block the entrance to Palantir Technologies’ offices, July 14, 2025, in New York City. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In late 2024, the People’s Forum hosted an event with the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, blasting the “American empire,” writing: “War, genocide and exploitation of labor and resources are sowed into the fabric of the American empire, irrespective of which ruling-class party holds presidential office.”

The promotion, advertised on a Democratic platform, Action Network, continued: “The US is an enemy to Africans and Palestinians alike. It is of necessity that we colonized and oppressed peoples in the belly of the beast, whose fates are tied to our homelands, build a unified anti-imperialist mass revolutionary movement to consolidate our power and put an end to US hegemony.”

As Tuesday’s protest came to an end, the event’s leaders gathered their pre-printed signs, speaker system and remnants of the piñata. The TV crews pulled away after documenting the group’s “passion” off U.S. Route 1.

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