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Prime Day Brings Out Anti-Amazon Wave Of Protests And Activism

July 16, 2019 Ben Fox Rubin, Cnet.com Resist! Activism, Amazon, Protests

Demonstrations happened in Minnesota, New York, Seattle and San Francisco, as well as across Europe. While Amazon is working to push its big Prime Day summer sale this week, activists and unions are using the day to highlight their many concerns about the world's biggest online store. Their concerns vary widely, from working conditions in warehouses to climate issues to its ties to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Much of the activist attention in the US was directed at Shakopee, Minnesota, where Amazon warehouse workers protested Monday...

Why It’s Prime Time To Boycott Amazon

July 15, 2019 By Valerie Vande Panne, Independentmediainstitute.org Resist! Amazon, boycott, Jeff Bezos, New Economy

Are you ready to divest from Amazon Prime? How about Whole Foods? If the idea makes you break into a nervous cold sweat, no worries. You don’t need to divest from either. Yet. That’s the idea behind non-profit Threshold’s new campaign, Cancel Prime. The idea is for people to pledge to cancel their Prime accounts and stop shopping at Whole Foods—when there is a critical mass of people who will divest together.

PLEDGE: Solidarity With Amazon Workers Striking On Prime Day!

July 11, 2019 Staff, Solidaritycenter.ourpowerbase.net Resist! Amazon, Class Struggle, Strikes, Workers

On July 15 — 'Prime Day' — Amazon warehouse workers in Shakopee, Minnesota will stage a six-hour strike on a range of issues, including low pay, poor working conditions, increasingly heavy workloads, safety issues, among others. The strike is being built in collaboration with the Awood Center, an East African workers organization. Many of the workers who are leading the strike are Somali or other East African migrants, who have previously organized work stoppages at the warehouse around these and other issues.

Amazon Protested In Three Cities Over Climate Crisis

July 6, 2019 Forrest Crellin, Reuters. Resist! Amazon, France, Worker Rights, Yellow Vest

Paris - Several hundred environmental activists protested outside Amazon’s headquarters in Paris and at two of its regional distribution centers in France on Tuesday as part of stepped-up climate change demonstrations. The protest drew support from groups including Friends of the Earth and the “Gilets Jaunes”, who have mounted months of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron. Some 240 people blocked access to Amazon’s (AMZN.O) main office in Paris, organizers said, with many denouncing the online giant’s business practices, saying it wasn’t paying its fair share of tax or paying its employees a fair wage.

Report: Corporations And Bolsonaro Teaming Up To Destroy The Amazon

July 3, 2019 Joe Catron, Mintpress News. Educate! Amazon, Bolsonaro, Brazil, climate crisis

As deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reaches the highest level in a decade, the rainforest’s indigenous peoples and their supporters have called for action against the political and business interests they blame for a spike in illegal logging and other resource extraction. A report released by Amazon Watch as part of its ongoing “Complicity in Destruction” campaign aims not only to spotlight the role of North American and Western European financiers, importers, and traders in the ongoing destruction of the Amazon, but also to mobilize support for a boycott launched by the National Indigenous Mobilization (MNI) against the Brazilian agribusiness and mining interests encroaching on the threatened region.

6,000 Amazon Employees, Including A VP And Directors, Are Now Calling On Jeff Bezos To Stop Automating Oil Extraction

April 30, 2019 Brian Merchant, Gizmodo.com Create! Amazon, Climate Change, Extraction, Jeff Bezos, Oil

On Monday, a group of Amazon employees began circulating an open letter that calls on CEO Jeff Bezos and the board of directors to adopt a companywide plan to address climate change. By Wednesday, over 3,500 Amazoners had signed on. By Friday, that number had surpassed 6,000—meaning a number equivalent to about 1/10th of the company’s entire corporate workforce had publicly added their names. And those names are still rolling in. One of the latest names belongs to Tim Bray, a VP and Distinguished Engineer who, per his LinkedIn profile, is “an AWS geek at Amazon.com.”

Amazon’s Underbelly 3.0: Lobbying And Bribing To Secure Market Dominance

April 1, 2019 Chris Paulis, Occupy.com Educate! Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Ruling Class

Amazon has continued to expand its influence on policy and on government over the past decade. We laud Jeff Bezos as the richest man in the world and how he rose to the top by his own bootstraps. Many imagine him as a self-starter, an entrepreneur, a visionary. But the fact remains that Jeff has used his vast wealth to influence policy and laws to favor his business practices. Amazon has pushed others aside in order to procure its vast influence on politics and legislation. Granted, Amazon is not alone in this endeavor. It's no secret that corporations endlessly lobby to get what they want...

Minnesota Amazon Workers Walk Off The Job Over Speed-Up

March 25, 2019 Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labornotes.org Resist! Amazon, Class Struggle, Jeff Bezos, Minnesota, Workers

After yet another speed-up in a workplace notorious for its lightning pace of work, workers at a Minnesota Amazon warehouse walked off the night shift for three hours. The March 7 walkout at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, was these workers’ second job action in three months. The strikers work in the stow department, shelving items after they have been unloaded from inbound trucks and processed. Once shelved, the merchandise is then compiled into customer orders by pickers.

Cries Of ‘Shame!’ Heard At Arlington County, Va. Hearing As Officials Approve $23M In Incentives For Amazon

March 18, 2019 By Julia Conley, Commondreams.org Resist! Amazon, Development, Jeff Bezos

"You claim Arlington is a place for all, for immigrants, for equality, [and] clamor for the attention of a company that does the opposite." Anti-Amazon protesters in Arlington County, Virginia were outraged Saturday after the county board dismissed outright their concerns over the corporate giant's decision to build a headquarters in Crystal City—voting unanimously to approve $23 million in tax incentives for the company. The 5-0 vote followed hours of testimony by Amazon representatives, supporters, and opponents of the plan, with critics arguing that the trillion-dollar company has no need for financial incentives and that its presence in Crystal City will negatively impact lower-income residents and public services.

Without Amazon, New York Can Now Do Economic Development Right

February 27, 2019 By Isaiah J. Poole, Commondreams.org Create! Amazon, Development, Jeff Bezos, New Economy, New York (NY)

Now that activists in New York City successfully chased Amazon and its “HQ2” plan out of New York City, there is a new challenge: Can the organizers and elected leaders who successfully blocked the kind of economic development they opposed bring about the kind of economic development they want? That was a question that Cheyenna Weber, general coordinator for the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City, was wrestling with hours after Amazon announced on Thursday that it was canceling a planned complex in Long Island City, Queens that they said would bring 25,000 jobs to the area.

Cities Should Stop Playing Amazon’s Game & Quit Offering Corporate Tax Incentives

February 24, 2019 By Amihai Glazer, The Conversation Educate! Amazon, Corporate Welfare, New Economy

New York City should count its blessings. Amazon’s decision to walk away from its plan to build a new headquarters in Queens stunned city and state officials, who had promised US$3 billion in incentives in exchange for some 25,000 jobs. They had never questioned whether the promised jobs and economic stimulus would actually appear. I have reviewed much evidence on the effectiveness of tax and other incentives. My conclusion: Incentives just don’t work.

Amazon Won’t Pay A Dime In Federal Taxes This Year

February 18, 2019 By Jacob Sugarman, Truthdig.com Educate! Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Ruling Class, Taxes

Amazon won’t pay a dime in federal taxes this year—just as it didn’t pay a dime in federal taxes the year before. According to a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), which examined Amazon’s public filings, the online retailer reported a $129 million federal income tax rebate for 2018—good for a tax rate of negative 1 percent, or 22 percent below the federal corporate income tax rate. Amazon’s profits this year were $11.2 billion versus $5.6 billion in 2017. As of last September, the company was valued at over $1 trillion.

Amazon’s Decision To Pull Out Of NYC Is A Massive Blow To Corporate Welfare

February 16, 2019 David Dayen, Inthesetimes.com Resist! Amazon, Corporate Welfare, Corporations, Jeff Bezos

Amazon announced Thursday the company has canceled its bid to acquire nearly $3 billion in public dollars to locate a facility in New York City—the most substantial setback for corporate welfare in recent memory. Significantly, Amazon states in its announcement of the decision that it will continue to expand its workforce in the New York City area, up from the 5,000 workers the company already employs in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island. In other words, Amazon still plans to maintain a headquarters-sized presence in New York, the nation’s financial and economic hub. It just couldn’t win the political battle to obtain billions of dollars in subsidies from it.

Feeling Unwelcome, Amazon Ditches Plans For New York Hub

February 15, 2019 Jonathan Allen and David Shepardson, Reuters.com Resist! Amazon, Development, Jeff Bezos

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc abruptly scrapped plans to build a major outpost in New York that could have created 25,000 jobs, blaming opposition from local leaders upset by the nearly $3 billion in incentives promised by state and city politicians. The company said on Thursday it did not see consistently “positive, collaborative” relationships with state and local officials. Opponents of the project feared congestion and higher rents in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, and objected to handing billions in incentives to a company run by Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man.

Protests Push Amazon To Explore Alternatives To New York Office

February 11, 2019 David Shepardson and Susan Heavey, Reuters.com Resist! Amazon, Development, New York (NY)

The online retailer has not yet acquired any land for the project, which would make it easy to scrap its plans, the source said. The Washington Post reported the story earlier on Friday. The person briefed on the matter said that Amazon was still working toward winning approval from New York officials and had not given up on the proposal, but was considering potential alternatives to New York. Earlier, the Post, which is owned by Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, reported that Amazon executives had had internal discussions to reassess the situation in New York and explore alternatives. It cited two unnamed people familiar with the retailer’s thinking.

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