Today's Topics:
1. UK, anarchistcommunist ACG: France: thousands demonstrate
against extension of police state (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
against extension of police state (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #310 - digital book,
Analysis: Gafam, a new capitalism ? (de, it, fr, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Analysis: Gafam, a new capitalism ? (de, it, fr, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - International Day
Against Violence Against Women LET'S BREAK
Against Violence Against Women LET'S BREAK
THE PATRIARCHY ! (de,
it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL Montpellier - A
November 25 in the rain but a demanding and creative
November 25 in the rain but a demanding and creative
November 25!
(de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Czech, AFED: The end of coal NOW -- Invitation to a
demonstration for a quick and fair end to coal [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
demonstration for a quick and fair end to coal [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Poland, ozzip, Employee Initiative - Let Amazon pay!
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On Saturday November 21st thousands demonstrated in Paris and other cities over
plans to bring in a new security law on "global security". This proposed law
would: ---- a) widen access to video surveillance by cops, to recordings from
individual cameras as well as the possibility of real-time transmission of these
images to the cops. This means access by national and municipal police to
security cameras in shops, public buildings and in apartment blocks. ---- b)
allow the use of drones with an on-board camera as a surveillance tool, with
facial recognition, especially during demonstrations. Their use will facilitate
the identification of individuals and the massive collection of personal data.
c) make it a criminal offence to publish images of police officers with intent to
cause them harm. Offenders would face a maximum penalty of up to one year in
prison and a 45,000-euros. This would affect anyone, including journalists, who
take pictures of the police engaged in violence on the street or at demonstrations.
In Paris, several thousand people, including Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) took
part in demonstrations. The police responded with tear gas and water cannon,
beating people and harassing journalists, photojournalists and videojournalists.
Other demonstrations took place in Rennes, Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille ,Bordeaux
and Grenoble.The demonstration in Toulouse was also attacked by the police with
tear gas.
The new law is there to protect the police who continue with their campaign of
brutality against the population in general. As a leader of a journalists' union
remarked, it has only one goal, "to boost the sense of impunity of law
enforcement officers and make invisible police brutality."
In July, 3 cops were charged with manslaughter of a delivery worker, of Algerian
origin, caught on camera, in circumstances remarkably similar to the death of
George Floyd in the USA, and which set off a series of Black Lives Matter
demonstrations throughout France. This law is meant to ban the recording of such
incidents and to give carte blanche to murder, mayhem and thuggery, often
racially motivated, committed by the mercenari
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/11/26/france-thousands-demonstrate-against-extension-of-police-state/
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Message: 2
L'Âge du capitalisme de surveillance , the remarkable opus of American
sociologist Shoshana Zuboff, was released on October 15 in French by Zulma
editions. The opportunity to present this major author and her work. ----
Shoshana Zuboff is an American sociologist, professor emeritus at Harvard
Business School, whose work focuses on the economic and social dimension of the
Internet and new technologies. Since 2014, she has been working to theorize the
emergence and the functioning of what she proposed to call "surveillance
capitalism" , which constitutes the common thread of her latest work, a titanic
synthesis of nearly a thousand pages of the whole. of his research.
In the early 2000s, Google, quickly followed by other large digital companies,
realizes that it is sitting on a hitherto untapped gold mine: the personal data
of Internet users. It is the beginning of the resale of this data to advertisers
eager to produce targeted advertising as effective as possible, the beginning of
a meticulous and incessant analysis of our every move motivated by pure profit,
and by the same occasion the start of what Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism.
For the sociologist, the importance of this turning point has until then been
underestimated by the various analyzes; on the contrary, it places this mutation
of capitalism at the same level as the invention of Fordism. A whole new
paradigm, a rethinking of the rules, a new economic system in which those who
vainly cling to the old rules fall hard.
Trade in personal data
The XIX th century was that of the gold rush ; the XX th century, that of the oil
rush (whose nickname of black gold is not a coincidence); the XXI th century and
will be the rush personal data worldwide. The century of computer analysis of big
data , or big data, made possible only by the spectacular increase in computing
power and capable of transforming the dreams of some into reality: a population
very precisely measured, dissected, analyzed, predicted and mostly influenced.
This is the second major aspect of Zuboff's analysis: targeted advertising was
only a transitional phase, the prehistory of surveillance capitalism if you will.
The real surveillance capitalism, and therefore its real danger, lies in the now
well-documented capacity of Gafam (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft)
and other Batx (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi) to decide at our place.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal (a completely voluntary operation to manipulate
votes during the 2016 American election and Brexit by a company exploiting
Facebook data) but also the Pokemon Go game (orchestrated undercover by Google
and bringing its users to the doors of retailers who have paid expressly for this
additional consumer) are Zuboff's favorite examples. Today, the capitalists of
Silicon Valley no longer content themselves with simply offering to buy what
interests us most; they completely fabricate our needs, our desires, our emotions.
Shoshana Zuboff at the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute.
cc BY 3.0
A scenario worthy of the works of science fiction The Zone from outside or
Westworld , but which is unfortunately very real for Shoshana Zuboff. Far from
only peremptorily affirming her thesis, she documents it at length, through an
in-depth analysis which has had an impressive impact in the United States. Barack
Obama publicly placed it on his list of favorite books of 2019, but the book has
also been praised by a more authentic leftist since the comparisons with The
Capital of Karl Marx have been numerous.
Yet is this comparison founded? Where Capital is a work of political economy and
philosophy, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is written with a much more
socio-historical angle. Where the first was undoubtedly ahead of its
contemporaries, the second is one thesis among others on the changes in
capitalism due to digital technology. A questionable thesis, and contested, moreover.
The French sociologist Sébastien Broca, for example, author of Utopia of free
software , was interviewed by Le Monde in June 2019 to comment on the English
release of Zuboff's book. He was not tender: according to him, the criticism
proposed by Zuboff is "fairly classic" , companies have "always sought to model
individual behavior" and surveillance capitalism is not "radically different from
this point of view." . The author would seek so much to make surveillance
capitalism the new paradigm of capitalism that she would forget to situate it in
"a larger story" . Moreover, it would tend to ignore, or at least not to mention,
the many militant initiatives in the fight against this generalized surveillance
society: for Sébastien Broca, and we can only join him on this point, Shoshana
Zuboff "wants to be position as a whistleblower" but "she is not the first and
she is not the only one" .
A perfectible analysis ?
Admittedly, Zuboff's work misses all recent theoretical research on capitalism in
the era of new technologies and his concepts sometimes lack finesse and
articulation - it is particularly regrettable that for a new theory of
capitalism, the link to Marx is only allusive - but in this time of StopCovid,
teleworking, distance learning and Zoom everywhere, we can only welcome the
formidable narrative of three decades of complex economic transformations and
hope that 'it will have the impact it deserves.
Let us note in conclusion that for those and those who would be put off by such
an ambitious reading, there are many interviews with Shoshana Zuboff, in English
with or without subtitles, on Youtube or on networks less "surveillance
capitalism" like Peertube!
Leo (UCL Lyon)
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism , Zulma, 2020, 864 pages,
26.50 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Analyse-Gafam-un-nouveau-capitalisme-8876
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Message: 3
November 25 is the International Day for Combating Violence Against Women by Men.
Every day in France, women are victims of psychological, verbal, economic,
obstetrical, gynecological, physical or sexual violence. A woman dies every 3
days murdered by her companion or her ex-companion (87 known femicides as of
November 22). 60% of women have been victims of sexual harassment at work. 4
million people in France have been victims of incestuous rape. ---- On average,
the number of women who, during a year, are victims of rape and / or attempted
rape is estimated at 94,000. Whether it takes place at home, at work or on the
street, violence is the product of the patriarchal system. They are aggravated by
the management of the health crisis, the social crisis, the ecological crisis.
Our mobilizations in recent years, in France and around the world, have succeeded
in bringing gender-based and sexual violence out of the shadows, and finally
bringing the voice of women to the fore. However, public authorities and
employers limit themselves to short-lived commitments. The President of the
Republic appoints a Minister of the Interior accused of rape and turns his back
on his so-called great national cause and men, in power or not, do not take up
the issue and do not clean up in their ranks.
Patriarchy also hits LGBTI people with force: homophobia and transphobia are thus
often a source of social exclusion and lead to difficult life courses, a
situation worsened by the health crisis. Lesbian, bisexual, and / or transgender
women thus experience both sexism and LGBTphobias. In several cities, the
initiatives around TDOR, a day celebrating the memory of trans people murdered
around the world (350 known transphobic murders as of November 20), have been
associated with those of November 25 to show these convergences with trans struggles.
Women can also be victims of racism. Whether they are migrants or not, with or
without papers, they are exposed to multiple forms of violence and insecurity,
during migration and in France. The neocolonial policy of the French state
worsens the situation of women in Africa, the Near and Middle East. Military
interventions kill, increase chaos ! Rape as a weapon of war and human
trafficking are becoming commonplace.
But women are also on the front line in the struggles.
The hospital workers, the teachers, the housekeepers at the Ibis hotel, at the
Mac Do's, and at H&M are fighting for their working condition and against sexist
and sexual harassment at work. The devaluation of jobs with a female majority is
the breeding ground for gender and sexual violence. On all continents, in Chile,
Brazil, Algeria, Poland, women stand up to denounce injustices, gender and sexual
violence, rape, feminicides !
Today we are in the streets to recall our fundamental right to live and work free
from violence : women, today victims of violence, can be protected and the
perpetrators of violence must be punished. In all living spaces, the question of
violence must be raised. And processed. The Union Communiste Libertaire
participates in these struggles ! And we will prepare a real March 8 of
struggle.A real general strike of women to say stop to abuse, violence, poverty,
inequalities. A general strike by women to tell men: enough is enough, stop
hurting us. To say to those who don't: get moving, don't let them do it anymore.
A general strike by women to feel our strength, because if we all stop,
everything stops. A general women's strike to take a day to talk to each other,
to organize themselves, to prepare for the fight after. A general strike by women
against violent men, against passive men, against complicit institutions, against
our exploitation and finally for our emancipation.
Let us prepare the strike funds for the poorest among us. Let's talk in our
clubs, our unions and our neighborhoods. Let's invent visible and powerful,
strong and wild street actions. Let's refuse to be gentle and kind and let our
anger explode and take it all away !
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Journee-internationale-contre-les-violences-faites-aux-femmes-BRISONS-LE
------------------------------
Message: 4
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On Saturday November 21st thousands demonstrated in Paris and other cities over
plans to bring in a new security law on "global security". This proposed law
would: ---- a) widen access to video surveillance by cops, to recordings from
individual cameras as well as the possibility of real-time transmission of these
images to the cops. This means access by national and municipal police to
security cameras in shops, public buildings and in apartment blocks. ---- b)
allow the use of drones with an on-board camera as a surveillance tool, with
facial recognition, especially during demonstrations. Their use will facilitate
the identification of individuals and the massive collection of personal data.
c) make it a criminal offence to publish images of police officers with intent to
cause them harm. Offenders would face a maximum penalty of up to one year in
prison and a 45,000-euros. This would affect anyone, including journalists, who
take pictures of the police engaged in violence on the street or at demonstrations.
In Paris, several thousand people, including Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) took
part in demonstrations. The police responded with tear gas and water cannon,
beating people and harassing journalists, photojournalists and videojournalists.
Other demonstrations took place in Rennes, Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille ,Bordeaux
and Grenoble.The demonstration in Toulouse was also attacked by the police with
tear gas.
The new law is there to protect the police who continue with their campaign of
brutality against the population in general. As a leader of a journalists' union
remarked, it has only one goal, "to boost the sense of impunity of law
enforcement officers and make invisible police brutality."
In July, 3 cops were charged with manslaughter of a delivery worker, of Algerian
origin, caught on camera, in circumstances remarkably similar to the death of
George Floyd in the USA, and which set off a series of Black Lives Matter
demonstrations throughout France. This law is meant to ban the recording of such
incidents and to give carte blanche to murder, mayhem and thuggery, often
racially motivated, committed by the mercenari
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/11/26/france-thousands-demonstrate-against-extension-of-police-state/
------------------------------
Message: 2
L'Âge du capitalisme de surveillance , the remarkable opus of American
sociologist Shoshana Zuboff, was released on October 15 in French by Zulma
editions. The opportunity to present this major author and her work. ----
Shoshana Zuboff is an American sociologist, professor emeritus at Harvard
Business School, whose work focuses on the economic and social dimension of the
Internet and new technologies. Since 2014, she has been working to theorize the
emergence and the functioning of what she proposed to call "surveillance
capitalism" , which constitutes the common thread of her latest work, a titanic
synthesis of nearly a thousand pages of the whole. of his research.
In the early 2000s, Google, quickly followed by other large digital companies,
realizes that it is sitting on a hitherto untapped gold mine: the personal data
of Internet users. It is the beginning of the resale of this data to advertisers
eager to produce targeted advertising as effective as possible, the beginning of
a meticulous and incessant analysis of our every move motivated by pure profit,
and by the same occasion the start of what Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism.
For the sociologist, the importance of this turning point has until then been
underestimated by the various analyzes; on the contrary, it places this mutation
of capitalism at the same level as the invention of Fordism. A whole new
paradigm, a rethinking of the rules, a new economic system in which those who
vainly cling to the old rules fall hard.
Trade in personal data
The XIX th century was that of the gold rush ; the XX th century, that of the oil
rush (whose nickname of black gold is not a coincidence); the XXI th century and
will be the rush personal data worldwide. The century of computer analysis of big
data , or big data, made possible only by the spectacular increase in computing
power and capable of transforming the dreams of some into reality: a population
very precisely measured, dissected, analyzed, predicted and mostly influenced.
This is the second major aspect of Zuboff's analysis: targeted advertising was
only a transitional phase, the prehistory of surveillance capitalism if you will.
The real surveillance capitalism, and therefore its real danger, lies in the now
well-documented capacity of Gafam (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft)
and other Batx (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi) to decide at our place.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal (a completely voluntary operation to manipulate
votes during the 2016 American election and Brexit by a company exploiting
Facebook data) but also the Pokemon Go game (orchestrated undercover by Google
and bringing its users to the doors of retailers who have paid expressly for this
additional consumer) are Zuboff's favorite examples. Today, the capitalists of
Silicon Valley no longer content themselves with simply offering to buy what
interests us most; they completely fabricate our needs, our desires, our emotions.
Shoshana Zuboff at the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute.
cc BY 3.0
A scenario worthy of the works of science fiction The Zone from outside or
Westworld , but which is unfortunately very real for Shoshana Zuboff. Far from
only peremptorily affirming her thesis, she documents it at length, through an
in-depth analysis which has had an impressive impact in the United States. Barack
Obama publicly placed it on his list of favorite books of 2019, but the book has
also been praised by a more authentic leftist since the comparisons with The
Capital of Karl Marx have been numerous.
Yet is this comparison founded? Where Capital is a work of political economy and
philosophy, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is written with a much more
socio-historical angle. Where the first was undoubtedly ahead of its
contemporaries, the second is one thesis among others on the changes in
capitalism due to digital technology. A questionable thesis, and contested, moreover.
The French sociologist Sébastien Broca, for example, author of Utopia of free
software , was interviewed by Le Monde in June 2019 to comment on the English
release of Zuboff's book. He was not tender: according to him, the criticism
proposed by Zuboff is "fairly classic" , companies have "always sought to model
individual behavior" and surveillance capitalism is not "radically different from
this point of view." . The author would seek so much to make surveillance
capitalism the new paradigm of capitalism that she would forget to situate it in
"a larger story" . Moreover, it would tend to ignore, or at least not to mention,
the many militant initiatives in the fight against this generalized surveillance
society: for Sébastien Broca, and we can only join him on this point, Shoshana
Zuboff "wants to be position as a whistleblower" but "she is not the first and
she is not the only one" .
A perfectible analysis ?
Admittedly, Zuboff's work misses all recent theoretical research on capitalism in
the era of new technologies and his concepts sometimes lack finesse and
articulation - it is particularly regrettable that for a new theory of
capitalism, the link to Marx is only allusive - but in this time of StopCovid,
teleworking, distance learning and Zoom everywhere, we can only welcome the
formidable narrative of three decades of complex economic transformations and
hope that 'it will have the impact it deserves.
Let us note in conclusion that for those and those who would be put off by such
an ambitious reading, there are many interviews with Shoshana Zuboff, in English
with or without subtitles, on Youtube or on networks less "surveillance
capitalism" like Peertube!
Leo (UCL Lyon)
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism , Zulma, 2020, 864 pages,
26.50 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Analyse-Gafam-un-nouveau-capitalisme-8876
------------------------------
Message: 3
November 25 is the International Day for Combating Violence Against Women by Men.
Every day in France, women are victims of psychological, verbal, economic,
obstetrical, gynecological, physical or sexual violence. A woman dies every 3
days murdered by her companion or her ex-companion (87 known femicides as of
November 22). 60% of women have been victims of sexual harassment at work. 4
million people in France have been victims of incestuous rape. ---- On average,
the number of women who, during a year, are victims of rape and / or attempted
rape is estimated at 94,000. Whether it takes place at home, at work or on the
street, violence is the product of the patriarchal system. They are aggravated by
the management of the health crisis, the social crisis, the ecological crisis.
Our mobilizations in recent years, in France and around the world, have succeeded
in bringing gender-based and sexual violence out of the shadows, and finally
bringing the voice of women to the fore. However, public authorities and
employers limit themselves to short-lived commitments. The President of the
Republic appoints a Minister of the Interior accused of rape and turns his back
on his so-called great national cause and men, in power or not, do not take up
the issue and do not clean up in their ranks.
Patriarchy also hits LGBTI people with force: homophobia and transphobia are thus
often a source of social exclusion and lead to difficult life courses, a
situation worsened by the health crisis. Lesbian, bisexual, and / or transgender
women thus experience both sexism and LGBTphobias. In several cities, the
initiatives around TDOR, a day celebrating the memory of trans people murdered
around the world (350 known transphobic murders as of November 20), have been
associated with those of November 25 to show these convergences with trans struggles.
Women can also be victims of racism. Whether they are migrants or not, with or
without papers, they are exposed to multiple forms of violence and insecurity,
during migration and in France. The neocolonial policy of the French state
worsens the situation of women in Africa, the Near and Middle East. Military
interventions kill, increase chaos ! Rape as a weapon of war and human
trafficking are becoming commonplace.
But women are also on the front line in the struggles.
The hospital workers, the teachers, the housekeepers at the Ibis hotel, at the
Mac Do's, and at H&M are fighting for their working condition and against sexist
and sexual harassment at work. The devaluation of jobs with a female majority is
the breeding ground for gender and sexual violence. On all continents, in Chile,
Brazil, Algeria, Poland, women stand up to denounce injustices, gender and sexual
violence, rape, feminicides !
Today we are in the streets to recall our fundamental right to live and work free
from violence : women, today victims of violence, can be protected and the
perpetrators of violence must be punished. In all living spaces, the question of
violence must be raised. And processed. The Union Communiste Libertaire
participates in these struggles ! And we will prepare a real March 8 of
struggle.A real general strike of women to say stop to abuse, violence, poverty,
inequalities. A general strike by women to tell men: enough is enough, stop
hurting us. To say to those who don't: get moving, don't let them do it anymore.
A general strike by women to feel our strength, because if we all stop,
everything stops. A general women's strike to take a day to talk to each other,
to organize themselves, to prepare for the fight after. A general strike by women
against violent men, against passive men, against complicit institutions, against
our exploitation and finally for our emancipation.
Let us prepare the strike funds for the poorest among us. Let's talk in our
clubs, our unions and our neighborhoods. Let's invent visible and powerful,
strong and wild street actions. Let's refuse to be gentle and kind and let our
anger explode and take it all away !
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Journee-internationale-contre-les-violences-faites-aux-femmes-BRISONS-LE
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Message: 4
The mobilizations of feminists in Montpellier for the international day against
violence against women are re-invented every year. ---- These 21 and 25 November
2020 were marked by two highlights: ---- - The 21 a happening with NousToutes at
the impulse on comedy: a photo in memory of the victims of feminicides in
Montpellier. ---- - The 25th with a call from orgas / associations / unions /
collectives, many of which accompany women on a daily basis who suffer the full
brunt of male chauvinist, economic and social violence. ----
appeal-text-25-Nov-2020 Download Dozens of people came by all day to submit their
visuals. Here is this day told in pictures. ---- People present all day despite
the showers: ---- By Sylvain Anti-patriarcat Feminist Commission Press release
UCL Montpellier Social Struggles Share:
http://unautrefutur.org/un-25-novembre-sous-la-pluie-mais-un-25-novembre-revendicatif-et-creatif/
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Message: 5
The Anarchist Federation expresses its support for the public event organized by
Limits We , Fridays For Future Czech Republic, the University for Climate and
Extinction Rebellion Czech Republic, which wants to make it clear that there is
an urgent need to end the fossil industry as soon as possible. We hereby invite
all those who have the opportunity to take part in the "End of Coal NOW"
demonstration. ---- When: Monday, November 30, 2020 at 3:30 p.m. ---- Where: in
front of the building of the Ministry of the Environment (Vršovická 1442/65,
Prague) ---- Already on Friday, December 4, the government's coal commission will
decide on the decline of coal in the Czech Republic. According to media
information, it is going to approve the year 2038, or an even later date. To
avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis, such as a long drought, we must
end coal in the next ten years. Let us not let them decide in the interests of
the barbarians. Let us say together that the end of coal must be swift and fair
to the people who live in the coal regions.
Be responsible and considerate not only to the climate, but also to others, so
don't forget the veils.
We will try to ensure that a new issue of the anarchist magazine Existence is
available on the spot , which is devoted to the topic of the climate movement
(more HERE https://www.afed.cz/text/7251/existence-c-1-2020-klimaticke-hnuti).
https://www.afed.cz/text/7256/konec-uhli-ted
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Message: 6
On Black Friday, November 27, 2020, Amazon employees, trade unions, including OZZ
Employee Initiative as part of the Amazon Workers International coalition and
citizens from around the world, supported by a wide coalition of allies,
including Uniglobal, ITUC, IndustriALL, Oxfam, Greenpeace, Progressive
International, Amnesty International are launching the #MakeAmazonPay campaign.
---- Behind this slogan #MakeAmazonPay, which means "Let Amazon Pay", is a
postulate that Amazon pay its employees fairly, pay for its environmental impact
and pay taxes. Read more about the postulates. ---- The Inicjatywa Pracownicza
trade union, operating since 2014 in Polish Amazon warehouses, gets involved in
the activities. Amazon employees in Poland have been protesting under the slogan
"PLN 2,000 for everyone" since November, demanding decent earnings and allowances.
See:photos of employees with the slogan "2000 for everyone"
Read more about:"2,000 for everyone"
Campaign website: https://makeamazonpay.com
Make a donation to support Amazon employees at https://makeamazonpay.com
CONTACT:
OZZ Employee Initiative Amazon 729-479-193, 731-486-483, 736-850-536 ipamazon@wp.pl
#MakeAmazonPay #OrganizeAmazon # blackfriday2020 # 2000for every
> Amazon has become a trillion dollar corporation, while employees in warehouses
Amazon are risking their lives for low wages.
> We all know it's not okay.
> Time to get Amazon to pay #MakeAmazonPay #OrganizeAmazon # blackfriday2020
The pandemic holiday season means more orders from Amazon customers, but
shouldn't mean more risks to Amazon employees. Amazon is one of the most powerful
corporations in the world, headed by Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world.
During the pandemic, Amazon became a corporation worth over a trillion dollars,
and Bezos became the first person in history with private wealth to reach $ 200
billion. Meanwhile, as Amazon's warehouse workers risk their lives for low wages,
the giant's carbon footprint has grown to more than two-thirds of any country on
the planet, and Amazon pays a corporate tax close to zero. Everyone knows THIS IS
NOT OK. Amazon's success would not be possible without employees, the environment
and public institutions. Amazon takes too much and gives back too little. Time to
get Amazon to pay, MAKE AMAZON PAY. We are employees, activists and citizens from
all over the world, joining in the Make Amazon Pay campaign to make Amazon pay
its employees fairly, pay for its environmental impact and pay taxes.
Have Amazon pay you #MakeAmazonPay
Common postulates
Amazon is one of the most powerful corporations in the world, headed by the
world's richest man, CEO Jeff Bezos.
During the pandemic, Amazon became a trillion-dollar corporation, and Bezos
became the first person in history to amass $ 200 billion in personal fortune. In
the meantime, Amazon warehouse workers risked their lives as indispensable
workers and only briefly received a raise.
As Amazon's corporate empire grows, its carbon footprint also grows, which
exceeds two-thirds of all countries in the world. Amazon's burgeoning cloud
delivery and computing businesses are accelerating a global climate breakdown.
Like all large corporations, Amazon's success would be impossible without the
public institutions that citizens have built together for generations. However,
instead of giving it back to the societies that helped it thrive, the corporation
deprives them of tax revenues, beating world records in tax avoidance. In 2019,
Amazon paid just 1.2% of its federal income tax in the US, its home country,
compared to 0% in the previous two years.
Amazon is not alone in these bad practices. However, he is at the heart of the
failed system that is fueling the inequalities, climate breakdown and democratic
decay that mark our times.
The pandemic revealed how Amazon puts profits above workers, society and our
planet. Amazon takes too much and gives back too little. It's time for Amazon to pay.
We are employees, activists, and citizens from all over the world, coming
together to make Amazon pay fairly: its employees, its environmental impact, and
its taxes.
We demand that Amazon change its rules and governments change their laws to:
1. Improvement of jobs by:
* Raising employee wages in all Amazon warehouses in line with the corporate
growing wealth, including risk pay and peak hour premium;
* negotiating appropriate break times to ensure safe work;
* Suspension of Amazon's stringent productivity and surveillance regime to crush
workers, which violates their rights and jeopardizes their safety;
* Extending paid sick leave to all Amazon employees so that no employee has to
choose between their health and their job;
* allow workers in plants without workplace representation to choose their own
health and safety committees that negotiate with Amazon to ensure a safe pace of
work that avoids repeated injuries;
* Disclosure of the Corporation's protocol for tracking and reporting cases of
infection with the COVID-19 virus, as well as updated lists of infections and
deaths among all employees in Amazon's warehouses by facility.
2. Ensuring work safety for all by:
* ending all forms of casual and bogus self-employment or subcontracting status;
* Establishing decent, transparent procedures so that employees can express
concerns and criticism without fear of punishment;
* the immediate reinstatement of all workers dismissed to speak on matters
relating to the health and safety of Amazon employees and customers; getting
involved in organizing colleagues; or because of the selective enforcement of
internal policies.
3. Respecting universal employee rights through:
* end union busting, respect workers 'right to self-organization and the right of
unions to promote workers' interests, and cease immediately all forms of spying
on workers and organizers;
* giving unions access to Amazon jobs to inform workers about the benefits of
being in a relationship and giving all workers the freedom to decide to join a
union without fear of retaliation;
* bargaining with unions, wherever they are, to achieve collective agreements on
terms and standards of employment in Amazon;
* ensuring workers' rights throughout Amazon's supply chain around the world;
* Sharing power with employees, for example by admitting employee representatives
elected by their associates at different levels of management, and increasing the
opportunities for employees to receive not only corporate shares but also voting
rights, so that the company moves towards a model of democratic governance.
4. Acting in a sustainable manner by:
* commitment to zero emissions by 2030;
* Completion of all Amazon Web Services custom contracts for fossil fuel
companies to accelerate oil and gas production;
* ending Amazon's complicity in environmental racism, including by switching to
electric vehicles first in the communities most affected by corporate pollution;
* cessation of all sponsorship of climate change denial;
* engaging employees who have a right to know how their employer will operate
sustainably through the Just Transition process.
5. Paying back to society by:
* Paying taxes in countries where real business activity is carried out, ending
tax fraud by: profit shifting, loopholes, using tax havens and ensuring full tax
transparency;
* ending anti-competitive business practices that lead to monopolization;
* ending partnerships with police forces and immigration authorities that are
institutionally racist;
* Guaranteeing the privacy and confidentiality of all Internet of Things
applications and software manufactured or sold by Amazon, including Alexa / Echo
devices; as well as streaming and cloud services;
* Stop the creation, sharing and sale of devices and software that augment mass
surveillance practices, such as Amazon Ring, and facial recognition / biometric
software, such as Rekognition.
Signatories: 350.org Aapti Institute, India Algorithm Watch All India IT and ITeS
Employees' Union Amazon Workers International Amazon Employees for Climate
Justice Athena Coalition Building and Wood Worker's International Berlin vs.
Amazon Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Canadian Center for Policy
Alternatives Center for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research
Data 4 Black Lives Education International European Arts and Entertainment
Alliance Focus on the Global South Friends of the Earth France Greenpeace Global
Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum Hawkers Joint Action Committee
IndustriAll IT for Change International Federation of Journalists International
Trade Union Confederation International Transport Workers' Federation
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering,
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