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The Make Amazon Pay coalition launched last year with a day of protests on Black Friday, when it unveiled a set of common demands from 50 social justice organizations, including Progressive International, the Athena Coalition, GreenPeace, Our Revolution, Oxfam, and the Sunrise Movement. Since then, the coalition has swelled to more than 70 unions, grassroots organizations, tax watchdogs, and environmentalist groups. “This year’s actions are set to be much larger with strikes and protests planned in multiple cities in at least 20 countries across every inhabited continent on earth,” a press release for the global event said. “The global day of action will bring together activists from different struggles - labor, environment, tax, data, privacy, anti-monopoly - as trade unionists, civil society activists and environmentalists hold joint actions.”Do you work for Amazon and have a tip to share with us? Please get in touch with the reporter Lauren, via email Lauren.gurley@vice.com or on Signal 201-897-2109.
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“From natural resource extraction, to manufacturing; from shipping and storing products around the world to delivering them to consumers; from controlling untold amounts of data and management to influencing our governments: Amazon takes workers, people and the planet for a ride,” said Casper Gelderblom, Make Amazon Pay coordinator at the Progressive International.
“Amazon may be everywhere, but we are too,” he continued. “At every link in this chain of abuse, we are fighting back to Make Amazon Pay. On Black Friday 26 November 2021, around the world, workers and activists will rise up in strikes, protests and actions to Make Amazon Pay.”
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