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Hey John,
Whether you live in Washington, D.C. or even if you've never visited, we can all agree that Jeff Bezos trying to buy his way into slapping his name onto an auditorium at the recently renovated Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library is wrong.
Bezos's track record of exploiting workers--especially Black and Brown workers--flies in the face of Dr. King's own legacy. Make no mistake, adding the Bezos name to the library is gross. That's why we're joining with the Athena coalition this week to call on the DC Public Library Board of Trustees to REJECT Bezos's bucks and his hollow attempt to tack his name onto the legacy of Dr. King. |
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Jeff Bezos founded and then ran Amazon for more than two decades. We don't need to remind you everything that's happened during Bezos's tenure and continues to this day. Bezos built an empire on the backs of exploited workers, preventing those workers from forming unions, contracting with the military, and even partnering with police departments to use Amazon's Ring cameras to search for Black Lives Matter activists.
We don't need Bezos's legacy anywhere close to Dr. King's.
Tell the DC Public Library Board of Trustees to REJECT the Jeff Bezos Auditorium at the MLK Library!
As we send you this email, workers at the Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama are voting for a second time whether to organize the first union at an Amazon warehouse in the United States. Last year, Amazon pulled out every trick in an effort to bust the organizing effort and as a result the National Labor Relations Board ordered a new election. That has Amazon has not stopped its union-busting.
Thank you for everything you do. We could not hold the powerful accountable with you.
In Solidarity,
Joel |
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