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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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
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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! ✊🇵🇸
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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…
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🚨BREAKING: On #BlackFriday, Amazon workers from Italy, Germany & the U.S. will be joining @GMBMidlands strikers in Coventry,🇬🇧to underscore the urgent need for Amazon to address its egregious labour practices & engage in fair bargaining. #MakeAmazonPay uniglobalunion.org/news/map-…
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Greedflation is what happens when a few corporations have too much power in our economy.
Amazon is no exception.
@FTC's case found that the corporation used a secret algorithm to raise prices not just on its site––but across others as well:
reuters.com/legal/new-detail…
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Today, I'm releasing a report on greedflation that exposes how corporations are making record profits on the backs of American families.
🧵Let's talk about it. /1
ALT JUST RELEASED A SPECIAL REPORT ON GREEDFLATION HOW CORPORATIONS ARE MAKING RECORD PROFITS ON THE BACKS OF AMERICAN FAMILIES
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Last week, the Center for Urban Economic Development at @thisisUIC released results from the *largest* nationwide survey of @Amazon workers to date.
Here's what they found: 🧵
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41% of Amazon warehouse workers have been injured on the job.
Among those at the company for 3+ years, 51% have been injured.
Learn more about the experience of working at Amazon from the largest survey of the company’s workforce to date:
cued.uic.edu/pain-points/
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We must stand together to stop the war on Gaza and the violent occupation of Palestine.
Israeli apartheid is backed by billions in our taxpayer $ and by the world’s most powerful corporations, including Amazon.
Here are ways to make our voices heard:🧵
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It's time to #BreakUpAmazon! While @amazon celebrates #PrimeBigDealDays, workers and communities continue to be harmed by their practices.
Learn how @ForUsNotAmazon fought back in Virginia and organized against the corporate giant. demos.org/research/challengi…
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"We need a leftist antimonopoly framework that centers racial justice, foregrounds class struggle, and pursues bold economic transformation in service of collective liberation."
More from our members and organizers @Azza_Alt @sashahammad:
inequality.org/research/amaz…?
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We're tired of Amazon bending the rules and writing the laws in their favor with corporate lobbying and dark $.
If operating in secrecy with no accountability is their MO––
Ours is to fight them for an economy and democracy that works for us all.
prospect.org/power/2023-09-2…
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Amazon employs 1 million+ in the U.S.
It's the 2nd largest private-sector employer.
That's why the @FTC antimonopoly case against it matters––
Amazon's power makes its pay & working conditions trickle down to communities across the coutnry.
nelp.org/publication/a-good-…