Hi,

Amazon is everywhere, even at Black Lives Matter protests. But whose side
they’re on might shock you.

Amazon has enjoyed a long, profitable relationship with ICE and police
departments all over the country -- in ways that put Black and brown
people, the folks standing in solidarity with them in increased jeopardy.

Amazon could sever its relationship with ICE and police today. But they’re
counting on everyday folks just like you to look the other way as they
power the technology behind ICE and police.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Tell Amazon to cut all ties with police and ICE.

For years, Amazon has been silently arming police with neighborhood
surveillance cameras and dangerous facial recognition technology, powering
the software system’s behind ICE deportations, pricing out local Black and
brown-owned businesses from our communities, and squashing any attempts
for even basic humane reforms to their warehouse workplaces, even during a
global pandemic.

Make no mistake: Amazon is profiting on police profiling of Black and
brown people. Using Amazon Ring cameras and Neighbors app, Amazon built an
almost nation-wide surveillance network of our homes and communities, and
then handed that data over to police.

But that’s not all: Amazon aggressively sells their facial recognition
software, called Rekognition, to both police departments and ICE. This
enables police to screen and identify protesters and a time when many who
are standing up for justice are getting maced and fired at by rubber
bullets.

Amazon also has a special relationship with ICE, contracting their cloud
computing software to streamline deportations, family separations, and the
Orwellian collection of immigrants’ biometric data -- including their
faces, fingerprints, and iris scans.

Nationwide, activists are demanding justice, accountability, and freedom
from police violence and oppression. That can’t happen as long as Amazon
continues to power technology for police departments and ICE.

Join thousands of activists just like you. [ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Tell
Amazon to cut all ties with police and ICE.

Thanks for taking action,

Tihi and the team at Demand Progress

 

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