Hi,

Amazon is profiting from ICE putting children in cages and separating
immigrant families. It provides the technology infrastructure ICE needs.^1

At a time when many are labeling immigrant detention centers^2
“concentration camps,”^3 Amazon is on the wrong side of history.

Nearly half of all of U.S. e-commerce goes through Amazon^4 and it leads
the cloud infrastructure market.^5 Amazon has used its power to crush
small businesses,^6 instate poor working conditions for warehouse
workers,^7 and push low-income families and people of color out of their
neighborhoods.^8

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a series of hearings on the
immense power of tech companies.^9 Friend, your representative
needs to hear from you.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress to rein in bad actors like Amazon and break up big tech.

A growing number of political leaders and presidential candidates have
called for the break up of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other big tech
companies.^10

Big tech has too much power -- over our economy, our democracy, and our
society. They are crushing small competitors and stifling innovation in
pursuit of profit.

We urgently need to break up big tech monopolies.

If we break up big tech, you’ll still be able to search on Google like you
do today, use Facebook to keep in touch with family, and shop at Amazon.
But these companies wouldn’t be able to crush smaller competitors or abuse
users privacy--meaning more choices for us and a stronger democracy.

[ [link removed] ]Join the movement to rein in big tech monopolies, friend. 

Thanks for taking action to fight corporate power,

Salma, Robert, and the team at Demand Progress

 

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Sources:
1. Technology Review, "Amazon is the invisible backbone behind ICE’s
immigration crackdown," [ [link removed] ]October 22nd, 2018.
2. NBC News, "Lawyers claim infants, children are in dangerous situation
at border detention site," [ [link removed] ]June 20th, 2019.
3. Newsweek, "Japanese-Americans held in internment camps as children to
lead protest against Fort Sill child detention: ‘It’s never too late to do
the right thing’," [ [link removed] ]June 21st, 2019.
4. CNBC, "Watch out, retailers. This is just how big Amazon is becoming,"
[ [link removed] ]July 13th, 2018.
5. Canalys, "Cloud market share Q4 2018 and full year 2018," [ [link removed] ]February
4th, 2019.
6. The Yale Law Journal, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," [ [link removed] ]January 1st,
2016.
7. CNN, "Amazon Warehouse Workers Say They Have Been Working Without Air
Conditioning, Experiencing Exhaustion and Dehydration," [ [link removed] ]June 6th,
2018.
8. Vox, "Amazon HQ2: the many layers of backlash against the company’s
expansion, ex," [ [link removed] ]November 13th, 2018.
9. CNN, "House Judiciary Committee launches 'top-to-bottom' antitrust
probe of big tech," [ [link removed] ]June 3rd, 2019.
10. The New York Times, "Google and Amazon Are at the Center of a Storm
Brewing Over Big Tech," [ [link removed] ]June 2nd, 2019.
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