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#PSA: amazon workers in multiple countries, including the U.S., are striking for Black Friday to Cyber Monday.

DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE

#Unions #SupportWorkers #SupportUnions #amazon

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/25/amazon-protest-strike-black-friday
#unions #Amazon #psa #supportunions #supportworkers

This year, #BlackFriday falls on 29 November: the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It’s time to take a stand for the people of #Palestine, and hit #Amazon where it hurts. Join us.
https://act.progressive.international/notadimeforgenocide/

This Black Friday: Not A Dime For Genocide

This year, Black Friday falls on 29 November: the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It’s time to take a stand for the people of Palestine, and hit Amazon where it hurts. Join us.
act.progressive.international
#Amazon #blackfriday #palestine

On Black Friday, target your #BuyNothingDay 'activities... #Amazon.

The easiest kind of activism. Do Nothing. Don't buy anything from Amazon 11/29-12/2. You can DO it!

"Workers and representatives from unions and workers’ groups intend to join protests against the Seattle-based company’s practices between #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday (29 November and 2 December), one of the biggest #shopping weekends of the year."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/25/amazon-protest-strike-black-friday #BlackFridayDeals 😎
#Amazon #blackfriday #shopping #buynothingday #cybermonday #blackfridaydeals

550 #ClimateEmergency #Amazon #Indigenous

"Can Lula still save the Amazon?"
by Joaquim Salles for Grist [Nov 21, 2024] [Audio available]

https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/can-lula-still-save-the-amazon-brazil/

Quotes:
"The power imbalance in Brazil's government keeps environmental protections and Indigenous rights under threat."

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"Between January and November of 2023, the [Lula] government issued 40 percent more infractions against illegal deforestation in the Amazon when compared to the same period in 2022, when Bolsonaro was still in office."

"Lula also reestablished the Amazon Fund, an international pool of money used to support conservation efforts in the rainforest. Just this week, at the G20 Summit, outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden pledged $50 million to the fund."

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"And yet, despite the government’s actions, environmental protections and Indigenous rights are still under threat. Lula is governing alongside the most pro-agribusiness congress in Brazilian history, which renders his ability to protect Brazil’s forests and Indigenous peoples in the long term severely constrained."

"Brazil’s equivalent to the House of Representatives, is made up of politicians from 19 different parties../\..Weak party cohesion makes it easier for interest groups to step into the vacuum and act as this coordination device."

"Agribusiness has long been one of the most powerful interest groups in Brazilian politics, but its influence has grown steadily over the past decade as the electorate shifted to the right and the sector developed more sophisticated strategies to affect politics."

"Today, the agrarian caucus is larger than any single party in the Brazilian legislature. "This gives them immense leverage towards any president.”

"Much of the coordination around the legislative agenda takes place away from congress (in) a think tank founded in 2011 and financed largely by major agribusiness corporations, including some in the U.S. and the European Union."
Among IPA’s main backers are
* Brazilian beef giant #JBS,
* German pesticide producer #BASF, and the
* U.S.-based corporation #Cargill

"The agrarian caucus has tallied several../\.. new legislation (on) use of pesticides, which Human Rights Watch called a “serious threat to the environment and the right to health,” removes barriers for previously banned substances and reduces the regulatory oversight of the health and environment agencies../\..Lula attempted to veto parts of the bill, but was overruled by congress."

"Another recent victory for the agrarian caucus came as a major blow to #IndigenousRights. Agribusiness has (for) called marco temporal (“time frame,” in English), which posits that Indigenous groups can only claim their traditional lands if they were occupying it in 1988, the year the current Brazilian constitution was drafted.
It disregards the fact that many Indigenous groups were expelled from their native lands long before that date."

"The theory had been making its way through the Brazilian justice system for 16 years, until it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last year. Blatantly flouting the court’s ruling, congress passed a bill codifying marco temporal into law. Lula tried to veto the bill, but he was overruled by the agrarian caucus again."

"The government has limited tools at its disposal to block anti-environmental legislation. In the past, the executive branch had greater control over discretionary spending and was able to use this to its advantage while negotiating with congress."

"Among projects which have a high likelihood of passing, like the #BrazilsForestCode, the key piece of legislation governing the use and management of forests. “It would make control much more difficult because illegal forms of deforestation would become legal,” said Araújo."

"The move could open almost 18 million hectares of forest to agricultural development. That is an area roughly the size of New York state, New Jersey, and Massachusetts combined."

"Another bill in the package removes protections for native grasslands, including large parts of the Cerrado and the Pantanal (the world’s largest tropical wetland). In theory this would affect 48 millions hectares of native vegetation"

"Yet another bill, which has already been approved in the Chamber of Deputies, overhauls the process of environmental licensing, essentially reducing it to a rubber stamp. "You might as well not have licensing legislation” said Araújo."

"Part of the reason many of these bills have a chance of passing is the Lula government’s limited leverage../\..During these negotiations, some environmentalists believe concerns over Brazil’s forests fall by the wayside."

"Araújo: “There are political agreements and negotiations that must be made. The bargaining chip cannot be environmental legislation.”

#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown
@lesandrop

Can Lula still save the Amazon?

The power imbalance in Brazil's government that keeps environmental protections and Indigenous rights under threat.
Joaquim Salles (Grist)
#climateemergency #Indigenous #Amazon #climatebreakdown #indigenousrights #Cargill #BASF #stopburningthings #stopecoside #JBS #brazilsforestcode

Aditya Chakrabortty's dispatch from the frontline of the new working class - typified by this tale of the health & wellbeing costs of working in an Amazon warehouse, fulfilling our 'need' for convenience.....

Its not a happy tale... as you can (already) imagine

#workers #class #Amazon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/britain-working-class-pain-mental-health
#Amazon #workers #class

Amazon has cancelled its secret "fertility tracker device" project. In other news, Amazon had a secret "fertility tracker device" project.

The program was ended in late October but apparently someone is just now talking to CNBC about it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/amazon-shuts-down-secret-project-to-develop-fertility-tracker.html
#Amazon #FertilityTracker

Amazon shuts down secret project to develop fertility tracker

The project, codenamed "Encore," was part of Amazon's moonshot incubator Grand Challenge, which launched under founder Jeff Bezos.
Annie Palmer (CNBC)
#Amazon #fertilitytracker

"On Monday Amazon confirmed a breach of employee data which was published on a crime-focused forum, according to a statement from Amazon to 404 Media.

The data includes the employees’ name, work contact information, and what location they work at, and has more than 2.8 million lines of data, according to the post on Breach Forums. The post says the source of the data was MOVEit, which is suite of cloud data management tools.

“Amazon and AWS systems remain secure, and we have not experienced a security event. We were notified about [a] security event at one of our property management vendors that impacted several of its customers including Amazon. The only Amazon information involved was employee work contact information, for example work email addresses, desk phone numbers, and building locations,” an Amazon spokesperson told 404 Media in an email."

https://www.404media.co/amazon-confirms-breach-of-employee-data/

#Amazon #DataBreach #DataProtection #Privacy #Hacking #CyberSecurity

Amazon Confirms Breach of Employee Data

The breach includes the employees’ name, work contact information, and what location they work at.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
#privacy #databreach #Amazon #cybersecurity #dataprotection #hacking

The brilliant and super-ethically minded Xigxag have been added to my Ethical Bookseller Search Tool.

The tool scours more ethical booksellers than #Amazon in one click and the cheapest result is as cheap or cheaper than Amazon for the majority of searches?! 🤯

Give it a whirl when searching for your next online #book order. 📖 👇

https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/amazon-alternatives/?ebs-path=%2Fbooks%2Fm%2Fis%3A9781835189870-is%3A9781835189924%2Fa-single-act-of-kindness-samantha-tonge&ebs-authors=Samantha+Tonge&ebs-cover=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.ethicalbooksearch.com%2Fimg%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fblackwells.co.uk%252Fjacket%252Fs%252F9781835189870.jpg%26sig%3Dc92504ecddf40771036e43399a20b33a8781fad18a9c938cb5267757f1d99ee8%26width%3D150&ebs-title=A+Single+Act+of+Kindness

#AmazonAlternatives #BoycottAmazon #bookstodon #books

Amazon Alternatives - Ethical Revolution

Join me in taking step A, “Amazon Alternatives”, in the A-Z of simple steps to a better world! Includes an Ethical Book Search tool!
Ethical Revolution
#book #Amazon #books #bookstodon #boycottamazon #amazonalternatives

#Blog Wat #Boycot ik niet?
#Gokken #Auto's #Facebook #Creditcard #Amazon
https://ximaar.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/boycot/

Okt-31: Wat boycot ik niet?

Recent kwam weer eens een boycot-verzoek voorbij: ‘Koop niet bij Amazon!’ Geen punt, ik heb er nog nooit iets gekocht en ben dat ook niet van plan. Amazon is een kwalijk bedrijf en Bezo…
ximaar
#auto #Amazon #blog #facebook #creditcard #gokken #boycot

Recherchen des +972 Magazins zeigen, wie Amazon, Google und Microsoft dem israelischen Militär Dienstleistungen und Kapazitäten zur Verfügung stellen, um ein Massenüberwachungsprogramm und Angriffe in Gaza durchzusetzen.

'According to multiple sources, the exponential capacity of the AWS public cloud system allows the army to have “endless storage” for holding intelligence on almost “everyone” in Gaza. One source who used the cloud-based system during the current war described making “orders from Amazon” for information while carrying out their operational tasks, and working with two screens — one connected to the army’s private systems, and the other connected to AWS.

Military sources emphasized to +972 and Local Call that the scope of intelligence collected from the surveillance of all Palestinian residents of Gaza is so large that it cannot be stored on military servers alone. In particular, according to intelligence sources, much more extensive storage capabilities and processing power were needed to keep billions of audio files (as opposed to just textual information or metadata), which compelled the army to turn to the cloud services offered by tech companies.'

https://www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-army-gaza-amazon-google-microsoft/

#Amazon #Google #Microsoft #Gaza #Israel #Surveillance #Antireport #KI

‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war

The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service and AI from Google and Microsoft for military activities in Gaza, investigation reveals.
Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
#surveillance #google #Amazon #israel #microsoft #gaza #ki #antireport

DoorDash and CVS also contributing funds to Raga group trying to re-elect Todd Rokita, who favors total abortion ban.

Looks like Jeff Bezos is an actual Nazi collaborator!

Amazon donates to group backing hardline anti-abortion Republican
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/31/amazon-doordash-cvs-fund-anti-abortion-republican

#NeverToddRokita #Amazon #CVS #DoorDash #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
#journalism #freepress #Amazon #uspol #washingtonpost #nevertoddrokita #cvs #doordash #jeffbezos #wapo #boycottamazon #eatthebillionaires

→ #Amazon, #Tesla and #Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/23/amazon-tesla-meta-climate-change-democracy

“Some of the world’s largest companies have been accused of undermining #democracy across the world by financially backing #farright political movements, funding and exacerbating the #climate crisis, and violating trade union rights and #humanrights in a report published on Monday by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).”
#democracy #climate #humanrights #Amazon #tesla #meta #farright

Governments need to build resilience against extreme weather, droughts, and floods.

Intact forest landscapes and other nature areas are our safety net, protecting people against extreme weather and climate crisis impacts.

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #ActNow #environment #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
Cartoon: BIRD: look mom, the remains of out old home!
#science #climateemergency #pollution #environment #climatecrisis #news #Nature #climatechange #photography #climateaction #climate #politics #Photo #Amazon #Earth #Cartoon #warming #geography #biologia #deforestation #actnow #renewableenergy #ActOnClimate

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