A coalition in Northern Virginia for working people, immigrants, and people of color against an Amazon takeover in Arlington and VA
Arlington, VA
Joined December 2018
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↪️ Live recap of our virtual community teach-in on Policing, Displacement, & Environmental Destruction: Amazon's Harms Across Our Communities. Plug in for ways to get involved & support the community organizing of @ForUsNotAmazon & our partners. 💯 #ForUsNotAmazon
Our virtual community teach-in on Policing, Displacement, and Environmental Destruction: Amazon’s Harms Across Our Communities is beginning now! You can still join here➡️ bit.ly/AmazonsHarms
#ForUsNotAmazon
ALT screenshot of zoom with text, Policing, Displacement, & Environmental Destruction: Amazon's Harms Across Our Communities. September 7, 2023. Small zoom windows with individual pictures are at the top.
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Today, we delivered our new housing report, The Right to Remain, to the Arlington Co Board. This report, a collaboration with @forusnotamazon and @athenaforall, highlights the experiences and demands of migrant families in Arlington facing displacement.
lacolectiva.org/right-to-rem…
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The @ForUsNotAmazon (FUNA) coalition’s case study breaks down the devastating implications of Amazon’s escalating expansion. Read it today and consider opting out of this week’s consumer frenzy: demos.nyc/amazon 2/2
.@Matt4Arlington @TakisKarantonis @libbygarvey @Susan4Arlington @maureencoffeyva Arlington County must divest from policing, incarceration, and collaboration with ICE, to invest in community needs like healthcare, education + stopping displacement. #ICEoutofArlington
.@Matt4Arlington @TakisKarantonis @libbygarvey @Susan4Arlington @maureencoffeyva Arlington County Board should be ensuring that everyone in Arlington has access to affordable housing, not criminalizing and deporting our community members. #ICEoutofArlington
.@Matt4Arlington @TakisKarantonis @libbygarvey @Susan4Arlington @maureencoffeyva take action by divesting from agencies that criminalize, incarcerate, and deport. Defund police and invest in community needs like housing to stop displacement of many families at risk in Arlington.
.@Matt4Arlington @TakisKarantonis @libbygarvey @Susan4Arlington @maureencoffeyva Arlington officials have said they care about migrant communities while funding policing, incarceration + collaborating with ICE. It's time to act. #RemoveSection7 and accept different ranges of IDs.
.@Amazon @AWS hosts ICE’s tech weapons fueling incarceration and deportations + Ring’s Neighbors app, which has also been used to make racist comments and reports, helping to criminalize & displace Black, Latinx & low income families across the DMV. #ICEoutofArlington
.@Amazon @AWS powers infrastructure that ICE uses to surveil and store biometric data of migrants & tracks them for detention and deportation. This targets and harms many of the same communities Amazon claims to support with the Housing “Equity” Fund. #ICEoutofArlington
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Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world again. He is reportedly worth $200 billion.
Yet he refuses to provide Amazon workers a living wage.
We stand with Amazon workers around the world, including @GMBMidlands, organizing to win the pay they deserve.
cbsnews.com/news/jeff-bezos-….
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BREAKING—PRO-PALESTINE @googlecloud ENGINEER DISRUPTS @Google ISRAEL DIRECTOR AT GOOGLE-SPONSORED ISRAELI TECH CONFERENCE IN NYC.
The worker demanded that Google STOP using worker labor to power genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. #NoTechForApartheid
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HAPPENING NOW:
Protest at Google’s London HQ in Pancras Square, demanding Google ends its Project Nimbus contract with Israel to provide cloud computing services, used for surveillance and oppression of Palestinians. No tech for apartheid! @NoTechApartheid @Workers4Pal🇵🇸
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨
Protest outside Google’s London HQ in support of the @NoTechApartheid campaign!
Google & Amazon workers are demanding an end to the Project Nimbus contract with Israel, which is complicit in the surveillance & oppression of Palestinians.
Solidarity! ✊🇵🇸
Justice for Poushawn Brown!! 💜💜💜💜💜💔💔 #JusticeForPou #JusticeForPoushawnBrown Amazon and Bezos' egregious greed and COVID negligence led to Pou's death, never forget.
1/8/2021 Lost my Heart I
Hate Today 1/8/2023 wish I could skip this Day Pou MISS U MORE THAN LIFE I love you with Everything I have Promises will be KEPT thank you for being the BEST sister aunt parent daughter Anyone Could Have There will be justice
#justiceforpoushawnbrown
#ForUsNotAmazon is on a brief pause until January 4, 2024. During this time, we ask that you consider supporting the housing organizing of FUNA member @lacolectiva703, who organizes directly w/ residents of Barcroft who face displacement & gentrification by... 1/2
ALT #ForUsNotAmazon is on a brief pause until January 4, 2024. During this time, we ask that you consider supporting the housing organizing of our member @lacolectiva703, who organizes directly with residents of Barcroft who face displacement and gentrification by Amazon's #HousingEquityFund and #HQ2. Be sure to sign the petition to #MakeBarcroftAffordable (bit.ly/23Barcroft), sign up for canvassing in Jan. (bit.ly/Canvassing4LC), & make a financial donation to @lacolectiva703.
Amazon's #HousingEquityFund & #HQ2. Show your support for residents of Barcfroft by ⬇️
🖊️Signing the petition to #MakeBarcroftAffordable (bit.ly/23Barcroft)
📢Signing up for canvassing in Jan. (bit.ly/Canvassing4LC)
✅Making a financial donation to @lacolectiva703
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📢 Please sign & share the Sugarloaf Alliance's petition to prohibit data center construction in the Sugarloaf Mountain foothills of Frederick Co, MD‼️ Previous #AWS construction plans are again being pushed today.
Sign➡️ chng.it/JDQCK6kMpB
#ForUsNotAMazon #DataCenters
ALT Graphic with text, In Frederick Co, MD, there is again another effort underway to build data centers in the foothills of Sugarloaf Mountain. The development plans look just like AWS’ plans, which the Sugarloaf Alliance previously fought off. Frederick County records recently Released (by court order) + Council Member comments make it clear that data center development in the foothills of Sugarloaf Mountain continues to be a threat. Sign the Sugarloaf Alliance’s petition! https://chng.it/JDQCK6kMpB. Image of Ferederick Co. data center site map. FUNA logo.
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In Louisiana, our data helped a coalition reform one of the nation's most notorious tax breaks. The reforms are on track to return to residents over $1 billion EVERY year.
With your support, we can do this in communities everywhere:
goodjobsfirst.org/support-us…
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No corporation is more egregious in its greed for profit and exploitation of workers, our communities, and planet than Amazon:
A company whose founder and chairman is the second wealthiest billionaire on Earth.
fortune.com/2023/10/17/berna…
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Amazon uses days like Black Friday to accelerate its extractive business model:
✔️pushing workers to dangerous speeds
✔️decimating small business
✔️expanding its surveillance empire
✔️poisoning our air
That’s why we'e standing with workers around the world to #MakeAmazonPay.
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"On Friday, [striking Amazon workers in Coventry, UK] will be joined by Amazon workers from Germany, Italy and the US, a move designed to [show] that confronting the global tech giant takes cross-border collaboration."
On Friday, we #MakeAmazonPay
theguardian.com/technology/2…
