| Dear Friend, The U.S. now has five companies that worth more than $1 trillion each: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.(1) A trillion dollars. That’s more than the GDP of all but 15 countries in the world.(2) As a result of allowing these megacorporations to balloon to where they have no competition, Amazon now employs more than 1.3 million people and spends millions of dollars busting unions.(3) Facebook is selling our information to the highest bidder and purposely spreading misogyny and hate for profit.(4) Google is keeping users from seeing smaller news outlets by prioritizing who pays them the most.(5) Congress is considering several antitrust bills to stop Big Tech corporations from harming its users and stomping on competition. Courage California has joined a coalition fighting to Break Up Big Tech, and this week, we’re pushing as many calls as possible to Congress, demanding that it rein in mega tech corporations. Click here to call and demand that your representative vote to Break Up Big Tech! Courage California members understand just how terrible Amazon can be to its workers and the community as a whole. Warehouse workers are injured at an exorbitant rate. Our video and audio that Amazon records -- whether it be through our Alexa devices or our Ring doorbells -- are used in advertising and sold to police departments without our knowledge. Small businesses that use the Amazon platform are sabotaged by the company itself. And because Amazon has virtually no real competition, it has no incentive to change those practices. Facebook just rebranded itself as Meta to try to undo the public relations hit it took upon the release of the “Facebook Papers” -- but that doesn’t change the fact that the company knew its Instagram platform was causing increased suicidal thoughts and body image issues in teenagers, and yet did nothing. Or that the company played a significant role in causing the January 6 insurrection.(6) California has a big role to play in the upcoming vote on the antitrust legislation. Amazon has more than 153,000 workers in California alone, more than any other state. Facebook is housed in California, and Silicon Valley can fight back. Our California representatives need to hear that we want them to champion antitrust legislation to stop these unfair corporation practices. We are the workers and consumers who these megacorporations are built on, and we need our elected leaders to stand up for us and demand Congress pass the antitrust bills. Here’s what the antitrust legislation would do:
Congress must step in to protect our livelihoods and our communities. Call your representative today and ask that the antitrust legislation package be passed immediately! Yours in the fight to stop corporate abuse, Angela, along with Amber, Annie, Caitlin, Irene, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) Footnotes:  |
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