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Dania Rajendra
@DaniaRajendra
relentless for justice + real democracy. was: inaugural director athena now: happily behind the scenes. views + typos are mine all mine.
Jun 21, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The fight against monopoly is deeply tied to the fight against racism, Islamophobia and anti-semitism recently increasing across the US and here in NYC. 1/8 You can see anti-semitism (and racism) in that last Trump ad of the 2016 campaign, Argument for America - a hateful, simplistic, and conspiratorial explanation of society run by a cabal of rich, deceitful people. (No, of course I’m not linking to it. Look it up.) 2/8
Jun 19, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Workers, small biz, neighbors, the over-policed, the under-paid, people who breathe pollution...every human who lives in a community + doesn't own a yacht with its own yacht cannot wait for Congress to take bold, comprehensive action against unelected, dangerous corporate power. Workers, 1/3
Oct 7, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
So, if you're like most people, the primary way you interact directly with Amazon is buying things via their website. (More people than are customers subsidize them with our shared public dollars, but that's indirect, and also a different thread.) 1/x #MonopolyIsNoGame So, people tend to think, Amazon is huge! So many people buy things! Selling things (ie, actual objects) must be how they make so much money. But that's not actually how they make *most* of the money. The biggest revenue driver is Amazon Web Services.
Oct 7, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Everything in this report about the acquisition and integration of Ring by Amazon is horrible. 1/x Reminder, Ring (on its own) doesn't just profit from our racism and mistrust, Ring makes it worse. (Again with the incentive problems.) vice.com/en/article/qvy…
Oct 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Page 303 - logistics! AKA where most of the humans are - and where almost all of the Black and brown humans are, because racism. #MonopolyIsNoGame From the report: "Amazon's ground shipping infrastructure consists of 'trucks, trailers, intermodal containers, and delivery vehicles.' Its truck fleet consists of more than 10,000 trailers." That is a lot - a lot a lot- of air pollution.
Oct 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Oh, remember this, about non-essential products? "In March 2020, Amazon announced that it would begin temporarily delaying shipments of all non-essential products" #MonopolyIsNoGame "...from its warehouses, regardless of whether they were sold by Amazon or by competing third-party sellers. The company claimed it was doing so to better serve customers in need while also helping to ensure the safety of warehouse workers."
Oct 6, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
At @athenaforall we often talk about how Amazon's sellers, customers, workers and neighbors have so much in common. This is why: “I don’t think they care about the third party seller . . . . They treat us as a commodity.” -3rd party seller. #MonopolyIsNoGame I wonder how this is related to workers' stories about their inability to talk to am human about sick leave during a pandemic? "Internal Amazon documents suggest that the company’s hyper-focus on a cost-cutting strategy to adopt automated processes for nearly everything
Aug 28, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Things that are actually morally repugnant, a list:
1. Having $200B but not paying your frontline workers hazard pay or paid time off during a pandemic 2. Your corporation telling people who work there to stay quiet about COVID exposure at work, or else. bloomberg.com/news/features/…