Oakland
CA
We are gathering to say: Stop Supporting Family Separation, Detention and Deportation! We won’t pay our grocery money into ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) violence! We will not feed ourselves and our families on white supremacy!
Whole Foods is owned by Amazon and Amazon is profiting from major contracts with ICE and Custom Border Patrol. And ICE depends on Amazon to do its business. More info below*
Furthermore, Amazon is helping accelerate the climate crisis with its support of oil extraction and has documented worker abuses.
We will be outside Whole Foods with signs and banners. We will be handing flyers to Whole Foods’ customers, informing them of the ICE-Amazon connection, providing alternatives to using Amazon services and asking them to call the Whole Foods CEO and Amazon CEO to cut ties with ICE and stop their war on people and the planet.
Join us to say NO to the normalization of Amazon/ICE in our communities.
#CloseTheCamps, #DisarmICE, #NoTech4Ice, #FamiliesBelongTogetherandFree
*Amazon Helps ICE & Profits from Trump’s White Nationalism:
Amazon provides essential technological infrastructure to DHS and ICE, enabling the Trump administration’s raids on immigrant communities and detentions in dangerous camps on the border. Amazon Web Services is Amazon’s cloud technology that mass
hosts and stores information. The Department of Homeland Security, and ICE, use AWS cloud technology to store, sort, and share massive amounts of data to target immigrants, including through information provided states by residents for their drivers
licenses. Without Amazon’s tech, ICE cannot function. As communities in support of all immigrants, we demand Amazon cut its ties to ICE now.
Amazon Fuels Climate Change:
While there have been some recent positive changes following an employee walkout protesting their environmental policies, Amazon has been a bad climate actor, seeking to profit off increased fossil fuel extraction even as our climate and ecosystems collapse. Amazon Web Services for Oil & Gas initiative is devoted to helping fossil fuel companies accelerate and expand oil and gas extraction. Amazon generates an enormous carbon footprint through their operations, shipping millions of items and using immense amounts of power to service the data centers that run its cloud operations.
They have donated to many climate deniers in Congress. Amazon has also threatened to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies.
Amazon Exploits Its Workers:
Some Amazon workers have protested Amazon’s collaboration with ICE and said, “We learn from history, and we understand how IBM’s systems were employed in the 1940s to help Hitler…We will not let that happen again. The time to act is now.”
Many workers say that Amazon treats them like more like robots than humans, that they do not have enough time to go to the bathroom and in some cases have had to pee in bottles just to meet their goals. The company is also under fire for racial, gender, and religious discrimination, for retaliating against workers who speak out, and low wages. We demand an end to all workers’ abuses by creating a humane rate and workload, paying workers living wages, and respecting workers’ voices on the job.