Jeff Bezos

Philanthropy by the mega-rich is anti-democratic. $100 million donation from Jeff Bezos explains it

November 16, 2022 by egberto

LIVE on KPFT 90.1 FM: A segment on CBS This Morning about Jeff Bezos donating yet another $100 million gave me pause. But the correct response by Tony Dokoupil, likely the youngest panelist, gave me hope.

Jeff Bezos

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Philanthropy by the mega-rich is anti-democratic. $100 million donation from Jeff Bezos explains it: A segment on CBS This Morning about Jeff Bezos donating yet another $100 million gave me pause. But the correct response by Tony Dokoupil, likely the youngest panelist, gave me hope.

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Chris Smalls, who Amazon fired for organizing employees to form a union, speaks at Netroots Nation.

August 23, 2022 by egberto

Chris Smalls visited Netroots Nation 2022 to discuss being fired from Amazon for organizing employees. He said Jeff Bezos tried to defame him.

Chris Smalls, the Amazon slayer, speaks.

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It was late, and everyone was getting tired. Chris Small’s assistant had scheduled an interview with Politics Done Right to coincide with our live show. He came over and said that the interview would not happen. In my mind, I said, HELL NO. I waited for Chris to finish with another independent media outlet, bypassed his assistant, and went straight to him.

“I need five minutes of your time,” I told Chris. “Your assistant had set up an interview.”

Chris kindly obliged for a very short interview

. I know the man was tired, but my audience needed his story. Chris explained that he got fired for organizing workers. Worse, he said that Jeff Bezos and his cohort defamed him.

Here is how VOX defined Smalls.

A year ago, Chris Smalls couldn’t get politicians to return his calls.
But on a muggy morning in late April, two of the biggest names in politics — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — were making a special trip to Staten Island, New York to visit with the 33-year-old former Amazon warehouse process assistant, father-of-three, and leader of a resurgent labor movement sweeping the country.
Smalls and his former colleagues, organizing under the banner of the newly formed Amazon Labor Union, or ALU, surprised the world in early April by doing what many thought was impossible: leading the first successful US union campaign at Amazon, a tech giant that has long viewed worker organizing as an existential threat to its business, and done virtually everything in its enormous power to stop it.

We need more workers willing to stand up for all workers. Once workers are organized, corporations will not have the ability to take advantage of them as they ultimately do today. The reason that Amazon came down hard on Smalls was to use him as an examle.

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Jeff Bezos’ latest actions should be the nail in the coffin for employer health insurance.

October 23, 2019 by egberto

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Jeff Bezos’ latest move shows exactly why Americans must never trust private or employer health insurance. It is no more than another profit center.

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Jeff Bezos continues the path of health insurance betrayal by the corporatocracy.

American health insurance continues to be in shambles. Unfortunately, until Americans elect a Progressive President and Congress it will remain a major wealth transfer mechanism for the few. In other words, it is a sure profit center that is not going away for the wealthy without a fight. It is essential that we fight.

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Study: After improving, U.S. air quality has deteriorated since 2016

An analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data done by two economists at Carnegie Mellon University reveals that, while the U.S. saw an improvement in air quality between 2009 and 2016, that positive movement has reversed since 2016. CBS News reports that the researchers, Karen Clay and Nicholas Muller, “found that particulate matter air pollution fell 24% in the U.S. from 2009 to 2016, but it increased 5.5% the following two years.” I wonder if there are any conclusions we could draw from that information?

According to the researchers, the worsening of air quality is due to three factors: the continuing increases in our economic activity—meaning more cars and trucks on the road; the uptick in recent years of wildfires across the western states; and last but by no means least, the reduction in Clean Air Act “enforcement actions.” Clay says that around 9,700 premature deaths in 2018 were associated with deteriorating air conditions.

You would think that, given the choice between someone who is going to poison the air we breathe versus someone who promises to work to make that air cleaner, most people would choose the latter. Unfortunately, a lot of people voted for Donald Trump, and around 30-something percent of those people would attach tailpipes to their mouths if he told them to, it seems.

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