International Protest Pontiac

On May 14, 2026, Engineers Against Apartheid and a collective of local organizations rallied outside of FANUC America’s Centerpoint Facility in Pontiac, Michigan. This facility is used for application testing, robot refurbishing, and replacement parts storage. Pontiac is also where FANUC is currently building an 840,000 square foot production facility where it intends to ramp up manufacturing of its robots.

On this International Day of Action, speakers and attendees held signs and banners and handed informational flyers to passersby, many of whom worked at neighboring businesses in the United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) South Campus.

In retaliation for the rally’s visibility, FANUC security selectively turned campus sprinklers on in precisely the location where participants gathered. While this was intended to be a deterrent it is ultimately a reflection on FANUC. To date, FANUC continues to deny any knowledge of how its robots started producing weapons on Elbit’s manufacturing line, and they express no urgency in investigating further even though actual human lives hang in the balance.

Despite the ceasefire signed on October 10, 2025, Israel has continued to violate the agreement over 1,600 times and has murdered over 600 Palestinians.Since October 7th, 2023, Israel is estimated to have indiscriminately murdered 680,000 civilians in Gaza, half of which are children.