For Us, Not Amazon
@forusnotamazon
A coalition in Northern Virginia for working people, immigrants, and people of color against an Amazon takeover in Arlington and VA
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https://www.facebook.com/forusnotamazon 04-12-2018 03:22:44
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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! No Tech For Apartheid Workers for a Free Palestine🇵🇸
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Protest outside Google’s London HQ in support of the No Tech For Apartheid 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! ✊🇵🇸
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 GMB Midlands, organizing to win the pay they deserve. cbsnews.com/news/jeff-bezo….
.@Amazon Amazon Web Services 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
.@Amazon Amazon Web Services 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
.Matt de Ferranti Takis Karantonis Libby Garvey Susan Cunningham Maureen Coffey - Arlington, VA 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.
.Matt de Ferranti Takis Karantonis Libby Garvey Susan Cunningham Maureen Coffey - Arlington, VA 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.
.Matt de Ferranti Takis Karantonis Libby Garvey Susan Cunningham Maureen Coffey - Arlington, VA Arlington County Board should be ensuring that everyone in Arlington has access to affordable housing, not criminalizing and deporting our community members. #ICEoutofArlington
.Matt de Ferranti Takis Karantonis Libby Garvey Susan Cunningham Maureen Coffey - Arlington, VA Arlington County must divest from policing, incarceration, and collaboration with ICE, to invest in community needs like healthcare, education + stopping displacement. #ICEoutofArlington
The For Us, Not Amazon (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
Today, we delivered our new housing report, The Right to Remain, to the Arlington Co Board. This report, a collaboration with @forusnotamazon and Athena Coalition, highlights the experiences and demands of migrant families in Arlington facing displacement. lacolectiva.org/right-to-remain