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Amazon's "setbacks could be attributed to many factors, but one of them was the influence of labor and immigrant organizations. Now some of those groups are joining together under Athena." https://t.co/JsC9BxmR8W
— Sara Flocks (@saraflocks) November 26, 2019
“This is a David and Goliath story... We’re learning from what makes Amazon back down and looking to replicate that as much as possible with as many people as possible,” @DaniaRajendrax director of Athena coalition demanding accountability for Amazon https://t.co/u7EJB5aBCX
— Tom Perriello (@tomperriello) November 26, 2019
Amazon flourished over its first 2 decades with little opposition and less scrutiny. A new coalition and a report released today made it clear that era is over. https://t.co/06xfylUguB
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 26, 2019
"Amazon flourished over its first two decades with little opposition and less scrutiny. A new coalition… make[s] clear that era is over.
— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) November 26, 2019
"Athena comprises three dozen grassroots groups... The goal is to encourage and unify the resistance to Amazon…” https://t.co/3GSxRnVIy9
Amazon thinks it's too big to fail.
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) November 26, 2019
We just think it's too big. And we're coming for its surveillance capitalist dreams. https://t.co/8Qf3hzWM49
Grass-Roots, bottom-up, workers, humans, community members rising up in this AMAZING alliance against Amazon!!!! https://t.co/vyZ8TXoKfW
— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) November 26, 2019
"Too Big to Govern” - how the new @athenaforall coalition is defying the odds to demand accountability from Amazon by changing how to organize across geographies. By @DavidStreitfeld https://t.co/u7EJB5scuv
— Tom Perriello (@tomperriello) November 26, 2019
while amazon inundates us with cheap goods, we've lost the vibrancy of local economies, small businesses, and entrepreneurship. @athenaforall and @openmarkets is trying to bring that back.https://t.co/cRjjPpUqGg
— Olivia Webb (@OliviaWebbC) November 26, 2019
It’s great news that this new coalition is coming together to oppose Amazon’s excessive power. We’ve tried leaving this stuff to the highly credentialed experts, and they failed miserably. https://t.co/DL3Gkp9ZbP
— Marshall Steinbaum ?? (@Econ_Marshall) November 26, 2019
Not just fighting Amazon as a monopoly and purveyor of surveillance & tech tools that criminalize Black & brown communities but also putting forward a vision for an economy that works for all. #WeAreAthena
— Priscilla González (@gonzalezpris) November 26, 2019
https://t.co/Oq4u00T9WH
Activists Build a Grass-Roots Alliance Against @Amazon READ: https://t.co/XFm7UWqYa3 Fantastic piece by @DavidStreitfeld @NYTimes! #WeAreAthena pic.twitter.com/GYmNGrWP6N
— Athena (@athenaforall) November 26, 2019
Activists Build a Grass-Roots Alliance Against Amazon. It's called Athena. It comprises organizations focused on workers, consumers, privacy, environment, safety, public funds, and more. Goal is to sway Amazon to be responsible. https://t.co/2HJiaybyU9
— Kraig Peck (@kraig_peck) November 26, 2019
"The coalition, @athenaforall, comprises three dozen grass-roots groups involved in issues like digital surveillance, antitrust and working conditions in warehouses. The goal is to encourage and unify the resistance to Amazon that is beginning to form." https://t.co/Rqgsd2kzq9
— haley p (@haleyp) November 26, 2019
Today we’re proud to join @athenaforall, the first grassroots national campaign stop Amazon's increasing stranglehold on our economy, democracy, people & planet. #WeAreAthena https://t.co/PY6tnARt9r
— Working Partnerships (@wpusanews) November 26, 2019
A new report from @EconomicRT shows that in Riverside and San Bernardino counties 86% of full-time Amazon logistics workers earn less than the basic living wage.#AmazonWorkers #HumansNotRobots https://t.co/PNh5hiRZ7a
— Tech Workers Coalition Los Angeles (@TWC_LosAngeles) November 26, 2019
*NEW* We are thrilled to announce the launch of @athenaforall!#WeAreAthena is a diverse, powerful force of people + organizations working together to stop @Amazon's increasing stranglehold on our economy, democracy, people & planet. https://t.co/eHxBQcdFFM
— Make the Road NY ? (@MaketheRoadNY) November 26, 2019
Activists across labor, privacy, antitrust launch an anti-Amazon coalition. They are raising $15 million for the first three years — with the blue chip Open Society Foundations already on board.@DavidStreitfeld with the bellwether: https://t.co/uaZWtK0Hke
— David McCabe (@dmccabe) November 26, 2019
Proud to reveal: @MaketheRoadNY is part of Athena to reclaim our democracy & economy from Amazon & abusive monopolies like it. Thank you @ilsr @Open_Markets @ALIGNny @popdemoc @P4WF @forrespect @jwjnational @MPower_Change & so many others! #WeAreAthena https://t.co/7vJkt0vZsQ
— Deborah Axt ? (@DebAxt) November 26, 2019
MUST READ: Labor, immigrant orgs & allies are building a grass-roots movement against Amazon's poor work conditions, poverty wages, their involvement w/ ICE & their surveillance products that target Black and brown communities. Right on @LALabor! ✊#1u https://t.co/XFUv2Q8pai
— California Labor Federation (@CaliforniaLabor) November 26, 2019
I can show @athenaforall how @amazon has become the single largest promoter of fake #antivax books. I also explained to Congress earlier this year how amazon has become the major social media weapon of choice for the antivax movement. So far, no one cares https://t.co/JyEWPPeCtX
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) November 26, 2019
Nice article about grass roots anti-Amazon activism, including nimble use of the California Public Records Act by @LALabor to analyze, expose various local government subsidies.https://t.co/CKOylj4dXk
— Michael Kohlhaas Dot Org (@DotKohlhaas) November 26, 2019
Activists Build a Grass-Roots Alliance Against Amazon - The New York Times - @LaurenLJacobs & other leaders on shaping a more humane economy #WeAreAthena https://t.co/M9lb91cRvE
— For Working Families (@P4WF) November 26, 2019
#WeAreAthena
— United for Respect (@forrespect) November 26, 2019
We joined forces with partner organizations like @nychange, @MaketheRoadNY, @ALIGNny, @ilsr, @Open_Markets, @popdemoc, @P4WF, @jwjnational, @MPower_Change, and more, to stop Amazon's harm on our communities.
Together, we are @athenaforallhttps://t.co/mCau3FGwIO
Grass-Roots, bottom-up, workers, humans, community members rising up in this AMAZING alliance against Amazon!!!! https://t.co/vyZ8TXoKfW
— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) November 26, 2019
Read all about it in the @nytimes: @DaniaRajendra is leading a national coalition @athenaforall to take on and transform none other than Amazon, to build worker power, democratize society, and, well, save the planet. Also check out that bad ass owl. https://t.co/NM21N6EyqT pic.twitter.com/jA4Yo9rCaZ
— Ajay Singh Chaudhary (@materialist_jew) November 26, 2019
"Amazon flourished over its first two decades with little opposition and less scrutiny. A new coalition and a report unveiled on Tuesday make clear that era is over."
— Fair Workweek LA (@FairWorkweekLA) November 26, 2019
Go follow @athenaforall! https://t.co/sFdaCjReGb
#WeAreAthena, a powerful emerging force of diverse people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ+ folks, and working class people + organizations working together to break the increasing stranglehold of corporate power over our economy, democracy, & planet. Join us! https://t.co/GIFZtD17As
— LaColectiVA703 (@LaColectiVA703) November 26, 2019
Good morning to everyone except Jeff Bezos. We're launching @AthenaForAll to rebuild our economy and democracy #WeaAreAthena https://t.co/a7kik7luvk
— Sam "Join AthenaForAll.org" Nelson (@jwjsam) November 26, 2019
“A grass-roots coalition forms in resistance” @AthenaForAll has officially launched!
— Yatziri ? (@yatziritovar) November 26, 2019
Read all about it here: https://t.co/92fOxnHlV7
or pick up the @nytimes today! ✊?#WeAreAthena pic.twitter.com/SpMqroGLKP
At the Citizens & Tech Summit, we shared two announcements. First: CivilServant, the project I started as a PhD student, is now the Citizens and Technology Lab at Cornell University. @CivicHall @Mlsif were at #CATSummit19 and covered the story here https://t.co/J2L5QkYnWi
— J. Nathan Matias (@natematias) November 27, 2019
.@CivicHall also posted a great summary of the discussions last night at the #CATSummit19 where we announced this partnership https://t.co/oNnyQyHnbE
— Katie McInnis (@katielmcinnis) November 26, 2019
“Among the report’s suggestions: that Amazon raise its #minimumwage to $20/hr, that it require its logistics subcontractors to do the same, that it provide child care at its warehouses & build affordable housing in its logistics communities.”https://t.co/tDedtQQdoK
— Legal Aid at Work (@LegalAidAtWork) November 27, 2019
HT @UFCW770
Amazon, led by the richest person in the world:
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) November 27, 2019
*Has received $2.7 billion in taxpayer subsidies for its buildings
*Warehouse workers require 24 cents in public assistance for every $1 in wages
*Half its SoCal warehouse workers live in substandard housinghttps://t.co/4v41JQ8Bnx
Monopolies are bad for consumers and our economy—and they're bad for employees, too.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 27, 2019
But when workers build a grassroots movement and fight together to hold Big Tech companies like Amazon accountable, they can win. https://t.co/XQ1Iku6zpp
Public subsidies should not be part of the profit model. It’s time that Amazon pays a living wage
— UFCW Local 770 (@UFCW770) November 27, 2019
to their warehouse workers.https://t.co/cwr7Vn6iub#TooBigtoGovern #AmazonFail #StopAmazon
Half the households in America have an Amazon Prime account. Amazon functions on the scale of a state including surveillance, govt procurement & healthcare. Interesting piece on @athenaforall - a coalition with $15m funding to reign in & resist @amazon https://t.co/eLeJuijUwX
— Ewa Jasiewicz (@ewa_jay) November 27, 2019
THIS IS BIG.
— Aneta Molenda (@AnetaMolenda) November 26, 2019
Today, a national coalition of 40+ organizations launched @weareathena to take on @amazon's powerful grip over our society & economy.
It's time to rewrite the rules to ensure that no corporation is above the law or too big to govern.https://t.co/fw80OoQcTt
Grass-roots organizations from around the US joined together in a David-like coalition called @athenaforall to take on the Goliath that is @Amazon https://t.co/oP4XXdywGb
— Doug Bloch (@TeamsterDoug) November 26, 2019
We're proud to announce that @LALabor is part of @athenaforall. #WeAreAthena
— The LA Fed (@LALabor) November 26, 2019
"The goal is to encourage and unify the resistance to Amazon that is now beginning to form." (via @DavidStreitfeld at @nytimes) https://t.co/SgDKeXnlqt
#WeAreAthena
— New York Communities for Change (@nychange) November 27, 2019
We join forces with partner organizations like @forrespect @MPower_Change @openmarkets @jwjnational @P4WF @ilsr @wwunited @AwoodMpls and more to stop Amazons harm on our communities
Together we are @athenaforall https://t.co/DukePkTboI