Thread by @LaurenLJacobs

Today’s #MLK day converges with a lot.

1) Pandemic
2) Movement for Black lives
3) Anti-Democratic coup attempt
4) Unprecedented shuttering of small biz
5) Climate disaster at our door

All on the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden, who must respond to all of it.

(1/)

Many players contributed to this, especially #BigTech. No player has more fingers in all of it than Jeff Bezos

@JoeBiden’s @Transition46 team considering Amazon insiders for positions designed to regulate Amazon is alarming

(2/) see @ddayen @ryangrim

prospect.org/cabinet-watch/…

How does @Amazon contribute to each of these?

Amazon played fast and loose with the lives of its workers through the pandemic.

Even prior to COVID19, its injury rate was 2X industry's.

see #ProtectAmazonWorkers (3/)

Through the pandemic, Amazon ghosted, retaliated and fired back-to-back Black whistleblowers. Their demands? They wanted PPE, adherence to CDC guidelines, to protect their health and not to bring COVID home to their loved ones.

Antitrust stops this.

(4/)

Jeff Bezos took 27 years to personally make $100 billion. During 1 pandemic year alone, he DOUBLED it; harming workers, preying on small businesses and price gouging Amazon customers on essential supplies and counterfeits.

Antitrust stops this.

See #PandemicProfiteer (5/)

While the Black Lives movement rises, Amazon said #BlackLivesMatter but kept using its monopoly to forge contracts w/what will soon be 2,000 local police depts. For?Warrantless video from @Ring to feed into anti-Black, flawed facial recognition systems.

#AntiBlackAmazon (6/)

Ignoring everyone, Amazon sold pro-QAnon, Proud Boys, and white supremacist gear. They’ve powered hate groups and platforms like Parler with data services and hate groups have raised $ via AmazonSmile.

Antitrust stops this.

See #StopFundingFascism + #AmazonDeliversHate

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As small businesses across the US close permanently in historic peaks, Amazon's monopoly power has allowed them to spy, copy and then compete w/ businesses. on their platform. Amazon has misled Congress under oath about it.

Antitrust stops this.

See #MonopolyIsNoGame

(8/)

Climate catastrophe. Amazon privately threatens employees who spoke about its work w/ big oil. Funds climate deniers and routinely uses its size to muscle its way into mostly Black and brown communities with polluting facilities.

Antitrust stops this.

See #AMZNSickOut

(9/)

Few things are bipartisan today. But it was a bipartisan @HouseJudiciary that investigated Amazon and big tech, finding that antitrust enforcement must be applied.

Monopoly created and protects all of this.

Antitrust stops it.

See #BreakUpBigTech #BreakUpAmazon

(10/)

Joe Biden, @Transition46: #BuildBackBetter is not appointing people who fight antitrust to head antitrust.

Gov is for our communities. Not against our community in service of the most powerful and harmful.

Let's not go from a Trump White House to an #AmazonWhiteHouse

11/11