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Nearly 100 Kansas Citians are packing our Food Service Workers’ Town Hall right now!

NEW: 75 organizations send letter to @mayor.nyc.gov & Speaker @speakermenin.bsky.social calling for investments in Green, Healthy Schools!

This proposal would create 321K green union jobs over five years; save the city millions in energy costs; and put us on a path to upgrade 500 schools by 2030.

Remember, ICE wouldn't be able to terrorize civilians without the cooperation of Big Tech. A new @wired.com investigation breaks down just how much it relies on computing power from companies like Amazon.

💥BREAKING💥St. Louis service workers won’t let the bosses drown out our voices 🗣️

#MOworkers, @sbworkersunited.org members, and community allies are gathering for the Food Service Workers’ Town Hall because we’re serious about demanding a real voice on the job — and across the whole industry!

📝 When we build narrative power, we can shape the way people think and WIN the higher pay, pathways to citizenship, and unions we deserve!

Noem's ICE has violated over 200 court orders in the last two months.

This lack of compliance is unprecedented and dangerous.

The courts are forcing DHS to comply because Noem thinks she only has to follow the rulings "when they apply."

Noem is not above the law.

Franklin County residents joined together to PACK their town hall last night and say NO to any new AI data centers in our backyard 🚫

At some point, tech abandoned its goal to benefit humanity in favor of concentrating wealth and power in the hands of billionaires. It doesn't have to be this way.

On the very same day that OpenAI signed a defense contract with the Pentagon, Amazon gave OpenAI $50 billion in exchange for being its sole cloud provider for frontier models.

Stop the AI Surveillance Pipeline! From work to ICE, here’s how we resist AI surveillance

“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording & reporting everything that's going on."

- Larry Ellison, co-founder & CTO of Oracle

When tech corps & CEOs tell you exactly what they're doing, believe them! Learn more w/ our AI surveillance resources: bit.ly/AIpipeline

Stop the AI Surveillance Pipeline! From work to ICE, here’s how we resist AI surveillance

Data brokers (who gather and sell our private information, preferences, and habits) have profiles on an estimated 98% of Americans. That's over 335 MILLION PEOPLE!

So, who are they selling our data to, and what does that mean for us?

Learn more with our AI surveillance resources: bit.ly/AIpipeline

Our idea is simple: to fight one of the most powerful monopolies in the world, we need to come together as warehouse workers, tech workers, small businesses, and community members. It’s time for an economy that benefits all of us, not just the wealthy few.

We’re a coalition of 50+ organizations challenging the power of Amazon: the corporation posing the single greatest threat to our economy and democracy today. The company is a symptom of billionaires hoarding wealth and power at everyone else’s expense.

🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨

Leavenworth city officials could grant a permit to CoreCivic, America’s largest private prison company, to build an ICE detention center in our backyard. That means MORE violent raids across MO and KS.

Rally with us to stop this deal! bit.ly/iceoutleavenworth

Worker Groups Representing 700,000 Demand: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Must Reject Pentagon's Demands Reject The Pentagon’s Demands.

More tech workers are demanding a say in what their labor is used for. Workers at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft want their companies to back Anthropic in refusing to use AI for mass surveillance or autonomous weaponry. medium.com/@notechforap...

Amazon looks to build large-scale data center campus next to nuclear plant in Texas Company looking to develop Project Spectrum next to Vistra’s Comanche nuclear plant

Once again, Amazon is demanding public handouts for a new data center complex in Texas. Remember, these subsidies aren't free money -- they take funds away from local budgets for schools and public services. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...

Why Should I Care? How Did We Get Here? YouTube video by PowerSwitch Action

AI surveillance is growing. From ICE abducting our neighbors to bosses paying workers less, it's becoming more and more a part of our everyday lives. But we can't accept that, the risks are too great.

Here's why you should care about the AI surveillance pipeline 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLjS...

Thank you to our partners at @datasociety.bsky.social @justfutureslaw.bsky.social @nelp.org @techequity.bsky.social @wpusa.bsky.social Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, Warehouse Worker Resource Center, and Seema Patel!

NEW: Check out our popular education toolkit to help understand and dismantle the AI Surveillance Pipeline! It includes:

✅ a printable zine / board game
✅ videos featuring tech, policy, and labor experts
✅ a roundup of even more research, reports, and tools

Explore it all at bit.ly/AIpipeline

Attorney General Bonta Exposes Amazon Price Fixing Scheme Driving Up Costs for Americans, Asks Court to Immediately Halt Illegal Conduct New evidence shows Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products and making Amazon richer and richer OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob B...

BREAKING: CA’s Attorney General found evidence that whether or not you shop on Amazon, its price-fixing is raising costs across the board. The evidence is so damning that they’re asking for an injunction to immediately stop this behavior. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

POINT: New Yorkers Need the Delivery Protection Act — Now - Streetsblog New York City New York City must pass the Delivery Protection Act to force Amazon to change its abusive business model.

"Every New Yorker deserves fair pay, real health care, and the right to go home safely. Our city must reject Amazon’s race to the bottom and protect good union jobs."

Luc Rene, Amazon Delivery Driver, writes an op-ed calling for the Delivery Protection Act @streetsblognys.bsky.social:

“It shouldn’t be this hard to be able to take care of myself and my family. That shouldn’t be something that only billionaires can do.” - Ms. Willa Shelton, UNE Member

What does the "State of the Union" look like to YOU?

Health care has been ripped away. Rents have skyrocketed. Corporations and the wealthy continue to benefit, all while our communities fight every day. Join us to listen as REAL people tell their stories. 

🗓 4:30pm MT
 🎥 live at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZv2fh-qAj_YfhnFNjAtG0A

“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

We all knew that Amazon Ring’s “Search Party” feature wouldn’t stop at looking for dogs. In leaked emails, its founder talks about using it to search our sidewalks for *anyone* – that’s a constitution-defying power that no corporation should have.
www.404media.co/leaked-email...

We are deeply saddened to learn that Rev. Jesse Jackson, a minister and civil rights icon, passed away earlier today.

The multiracial movement that Missouri workers are leading today builds on Rev. Jackson’s legacy and vision for a groundbreakingly diverse Rainbow Coalition.

Love is an act of resistance. This Valentine’s Week of Action, we’re showing up in solidarity with immigrant communities. We remain committed to protecting the right of all people to live freely, with dignity, and without fear.

#ToImmigrantsWithLove

💥WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN💥

Platform Ventures just announced they will NOT sell their I-49 warehouse to ICE to use as a Kansas City detention center!

✊New Yorkers are taking a stand against Amazon! Today, we rallied with @tiffanycaban.bsky.social, Amazon Teamsters, @nyclabor.bsky.social, and more to call for the Delivery Protection Act!
✅Corporate accountability - no more hiding behind subcontractors!
✅Job protections
✅Safe jobs & streets

They're working reallllly hard to make this technology seem heartwarming when it's anything but.

“Amazon rakes in billions while we go through pain, sweat, and tears to deliver packages. I started organizing to win better working conditions and vacation time — and we’ve seen real results!”