Hey Jeff Bezos, we have to admit the best Super Bowl ad goes to Amazon. Citations "New emails show that Ring's private surveillance network is sometimes being used by cops to surveil activities at major protests." @bigblackjacobin

vice.com/en/article/y3g…

Indie authors aren't being protected by @amazon from theft.

Then when their writing is stolen, Amazon punishes THEM for violating "exclusivity agreements".

Story @RachelUlatowski for @TheMarySue

themarysue.com/amazon-punishe… @amazon @RachelUlatowski @TheMarySue

https://twitter.com/CarissaNasyra/status/1622369606491840520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1622369606491840520%7Ctwgr%5E75c7006bdadb17efec17b1890c17ff35c746faad%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themarysue.com%2Famazon-punishes-authors-whose-work-is-pirated-due-to-aggressive-exclusivity-clause%2F

“We have a simple message to Amazon and Google executives:

End the Project Nimbus contracts.

Stop profiting from violence against Palestinians.” Dylan @pal_legal:

“Slowly but surely the tide is turning against Israeli apartheid.

But we’re not there yet.

In the past year we’ve received reports of students, workers, and journalists who have been harassed, targeted, and fired for speaking up in solidarity with Palestine.”

🏅It's #CleanAirDay so we honor our favorite corporate polluter: @amazon

Last year, Amazon's own numbers showed its emissions jumped double digits. That's like the world’s largest plane (A380 w 853 passengers) flying from London to Boston. 83,868 times.

🧵 1/x #Streets4People But these emissions are *just* from Amazon brand products, which make up only 1% of products on Amazon dot com.

If all others produced similar levels, the total impact of Amazon on our air would be what the A380 would emit flying London to Boston... over 8 million times.

2/x

BREAKING: We demand Congress hold a hearing on @Amazon’s safety crisis.

3 Amazon workers in NJ died on the job in 3 weeks.

The 1st worker, Rafael, died in the Prime Day rush–when consumers shop, and workers fulfill orders til they drop

🧵 #AmazonHurts
forbes.com/sites/richardn… We're calling on @SenSchumer @SpeakerPelosi @PattyMurray @SenatorBurr @BobbyScott @virginiafoxx to use your oversight responsibility and respond to the tragic deaths of NJ Amazon workers and the 34,000 serious injuries last year alone.

2/x #AmazonHurts

athenaforall.medium.com/letter-to-cong…

For years, workers have been fighting Amazon using surveillance to punish and fire, and injure and even kill them.

Today @SenBobCasey is taking a stand, calling on the Department of Labor to take action #AmazonHurts

https://twitter.com/SenBobCasey/status/1564385657266573314

Workers should not be subject to tools for exploitation developed on plantations and in factories 100+ yrs ago.

We call on Congress, once again, to ban surveillance that harms workers' health and safety.

athenaforall.medium.com/end-worker-sur…

Meet Melissa Ojeda, Daniel Rivera & Sara Fee.

Just now: They are part of 160 @IEAmazonWorkers workers in work stoppage and walk out from @Amazon's gigantic air hub holding up the western region of their logistics!

#AmazonHurts 1/x

washingtonpost.com/technology/202… @ieamazonworkers @amazon As the very first coordinated action from an Amazon air facility, this action boldly escalates the fight for demands @Amazon workers are making across the country:

✊🏽 fair pay
✊🏿 safe, healthy workplace
✊🏻 end to retaliation for unions

2/x #AmazonHurts

warehouseworkers.org/wwrc_campaigns…

"Until the @FTC acts, no one is safe."

We are among 48 civil rights groups calling on FTC to exercise their authority to ban corp use of facial surveillance tech, continuous surveillance in places of public accommodation, and end industry wide data abuse

vice.com/en/article/3aq… Smart surveillance devices are filling our homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Consumers unknowingly supply records of everything we do and say with no oversight to prevent danger. And no accountability after harm occurs.

athenaforall.medium.com/ftc-surveillan…

A thread of things Amazon does that would be rejected from writing rooms!

1) Amazon sought to hire former military intelligence to spy on workers organizing unions, communities opposing them and us! 2) In the middle of the #BlackLivesMatter uprisings, they used BLM for promotion while firing workers asking for COVID safety. All those fired were Black.

Today, Jeff Bezos has decided to head for the exits rather than face the music.

A thread. (1/x) In response to @JeffBezos stepping down as Amazon CEO for Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon Web Services, the @athenaforall coalition released the following statement from Maurice BP-Weeks @mo87mo87, an Athena leader and the Co-Exec Director of member group @ACREcampaigns. (2/x)

THREAD

"Time off task"

"Rate"

Let's talk about what these Orwellian terms really mean at @Amazon and why lawmakers must step in to #ProtectAmazonWorkers.

(1/🧵) #PrimeDay2020

vice.com/en/article/jgx… Farhiyo Warsame, an Amazon warehouse worker, was targeted, surveilled, and fired by @Amazon after speaking up about unsafe conditions at work, according to Athena member, the @AwoodMpls Center.

(2/🧵)

#PrimeDay #ProtectAmazonWorkers