By Shut Down DC, Popular Resistance
April 29, 2020
On April 29, 2020, a team of activists with La ColectiVA and ShutDownDC painted a mural on the street in front of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ DC home. The mural read “PROTECT AMAZON WORKERS” in massive letters stretching from curb to curb.
The mural action was taken in solidarity with Amazon workers across the country who are being forced to endanger their health during the COVID-19 crisis.
“Whether it’s harming our environment or enabling ICE and police surveillance, corporations like Amazon are complicit in profiteering from practices that put us all, especially Black and brown communities, at risk,” said Danny Cendejas, an organizer with LaColectiVA and For Us Not Amazon. “We must hold corporations like Amazon accountable and demand our elected officials end corporate welfare so that our public resources can be available for community needs like housing, healthcare, and education.
This afternoon, advocates for healthy and safe working conditions in Amazon warehouses participated in an online town hall in which they called on Bezos to provide paid time off for illness, adequately clean warehouses, and end attacks on worker organizing. They were joined by environmental justice and racial justice activists.
Tech giant Amazon announced plans to place warehouse workers in an untenable position and endanger their health during the COVID-19 crisis; as a response worker strikes are expected later this week. Today, people who are fighting for justice at Amazon will hold a town hall online to discuss the health and labor violations occurring at warehouses across the country. An art installation will accompany the online event.
Register here to join the town hall.
At 3PM today, frontline workers from Virginia, Illinois, California, New Jersey, among other states, will speak about the fight for basic worker protections at Amazon’s warehouses.
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Trump is destroying the USPS. bezos will take it over. Rural and prro people will not be able to get mail. All workers will be screwed.
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Wow, Tama. I was aware the post office is in great financial difficulty. You’re right, though. That’s exactly what will happen – Amazon will take it over. That never occurred to me.
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