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At Amazon’s annual general meeting, we’re asking shareholders to give CEO Jeff Bezos someone to answer to by appointing an independent chair of the board.
Join our Tweetstorm to tell Amazon shareholders: #BezosNeedsABoss!
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With Amazon, convenience has a cost. Behind the two-day shipping and monthly toilet paper deliveries, Amazon has another side that Jeff Bezos, as both CEO and chair of the board, doesn't want you to know about: profiting from far-right media like NRATV, paying employees so little they can’t put food on the table, and skirting taxes that pay for social services.
Our communities are suffering under Jeff Bezos’ leadership. And it’s no surprise: lack of accountability is built into Amazon’s corporate structure, where Bezos is both... CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Join our Tweetstorm to tell Amazon shareholders: #BezosNeedsABoss!
We can’t let Bezos hide behind his progressive “nice guy” persona, while Amazon workers rely on food stamps and Bezos forces cities to compete for its HQ2 in a race to the bottom that will hurt low-income communities of color. So when Amazon shareholders come together later this week at its annual general meeting, they’ll be hearing from us: it’s time for Jeff Bezos to have someone to answer to.
The richest man in the world is overseeing some bad decisions at Amazon. While Amazon receives billions of dollars in tax incentives from state and local governments, many of its employees rely on food stamps to get by. A full one third of Amazon employees in Arizona need food stamps to feed themselves and their families.
Under Bezos’s watch, Amazon is shamelessly profiting from the pain of victims of gun violence and racist fearmongering, by streaming NRATV. While companies like Enterprise and Delta have ended their discount program with NRA members in the wake of the Parkland shooting, Amazon is still streaming NRATV’s dangerous rhetoric, which smears Black Lives Matter and spreads anti-Muslim conspiracy theories.
Together we’ve shown that shareholder activism has the power to rein in even the most powerful corporations. From pressuring tar-sands company Suncor to disclose its lobbying expenses, to standing up to Wells Fargo’s funding of the Dakota Access Pipeline, we’re turning corporate annual general meetings into an occasion for people-powered change.
Thanks for all that you do,
Toni, Maggie, Salma and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
A large number of Amazon workers rely on food stamps for assistance, Think Progress, 20 April 2018.
Amazon Inc. Paid Zero in Federal Taxes in 2017, Gets $789 Million Windfall from New Tax Law, ITEP, 13 February 2018.
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