“Amazon workers are fighting for their rights. This holiday season, think of them”, 01 December

… [A]s shoppers around the world woke up to a frenzy of Black Friday bargains – workers at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Poznań, Poland, went on strike. Since March, CEO Jeff Bezos has seen his personal wealth soar ... Meanwhile, Amazon workers have been forced to work long hours in precarious conditions at the frontline of the pandemic…

The headline demand of Friday’s action … was to “Make Amazon Pay”. Alongside garment workers in Bangladesh, hawkers in India and climate activists in the United States, a coalition is forming across the planet to demand justice from Amazon for its abuse of workers, the environment and democratic institutions…

Concealment at scale is the secret to Amazon’s success … Out of sight is a ruthless game of regulatory arbitrage, as Amazon installs itself in low-tax jurisdictions and exploits legal loopholes around the world. Even further away from the customer lies Amazon’s environmental impact, scorching frontline communities in the global south while executives in Seattle roll out their latest greenwashed PR campaign.

Our struggles today remain divided across geographies, themes and targets … To organize down the supply chain, then, is about more than linking one widget to the next. It is about coordinating across silos of struggle that have the appearance of difference, when their interconnections lie just out of sight.