Dear Friend,

Today and tomorrow are Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, and the corporation’s
website is full of listings at 40%, 50%, 60% off.

But it’s the rest of us who are paying the price.

An FTC lawsuit was just released showing that Amazon made more than one
billion dollars on us, raising prices across the internet with a secret
algorithm targeting consumers.(1) The Senate is holding hearings about how
OSHA has a decade’s worth of complaints of worker injuries that the
corporation has just ignored.(2) And the multibillion-dollar company
continues to ignore the demands of the drivers that it has been abusing
for months across California.(3)

So on this Prime Day, don’t reward Amazon’s bad behavior! Instead, donate
what you would have spent to support the workers and demand Amazon shape
up.

[ [link removed] ]Will you chip in? Half of your donation will go to the Fired Up
Campaign to fund striking Amazon drivers and warehouse employees, and half
will go to Courage’s fight to improve labor conditions for all of our
state’s workers.

[ [link removed] ]SUPPORT AMAZON WORKERS

How was Amazon able to raise prices on us by a billion dollars and still
undercut competitors?

🤯 By forcing its drivers to meet inhumane quotas with no bathroom breaks
while driving vans lacking air conditioning and not enough water.(4)

🤯 By running warehouses where the injury rate is DOUBLE the rate of other
warehouses.(5)

🤯 By stealing product designs and rigging search results in its favor
against the sellers forced to use its platform.(6)

Amazon has been abusing us all, and as long as we keep buying in on Prime
Days, we are complicit. But today, we can not only refuse to join in, we
can spend the money on helping the workers that are standing up to the
retail giant.

[ [link removed] ]Will you chip in? Half of your donation will go to the Fired Up
Campaign to fund striking Amazon drivers and warehouse employees, and half
will go to Courage’s fight to improve labor conditions for all of our
state’s workers.

Thank you for standing with us,

–Irene, along with Angela, Annie, Isidra, Jen, Marvin, Mario, and Lindsay
(the Courage team) 

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PS: Courage California is fighting for equity and justice across the state
and country. [ [link removed] ]Will you become a monthly donor and help sustain our work?

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