Source: AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File
Protesters
Set Up 'Guillotine' In Front of Jeff Bezos's House
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Posted: Jun 29, 2020 8:15 AM
Source: AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File
In an announcement about the march, the activists
called for Amazon to be abolished.
It's an uprising,
and we're taking it to our neighbor @JeffBezos' house #dcprotest pic.twitter.com/D70BWwZ3o8
— abolish the present /
reconstruct our future (@AbolishTheNow) June
27, 2020
“Amazon works directly with police to surveil us,
stoking racist fears in the name of profit. Doubling down on their union
busting and mistreatment of workers, Amazon fired and racially slandered labor
organizer Chris Smalls. Join us to tell Jeff Bezos enough is enough!” the flyer
said. “End the abuse and profiteering. Abolish the police, the prisons, and
Amazon.”
DC protesters have
set up a “guillotine” in protest of Jeff Bezos in front of his complex in DC pic.twitter.com/VZ0AWTJqaV
— Drew Hernandez
(@livesmattershow) June
28, 2020
One protester stood in front of his home with a
bullhorn and said, “it is still exploitation and when they become threatened,
and we have no voice, the knives come out.”
The demonstration marks a rise in protesters taking events to residential
neighborhoods. Black Lives Matter showed up in a Beverly Hills, California,
residential area over the weekend, shouting, "Eat
the rich!" Activists also marched through a St. Louis,
Missouri, private community, where some home owners came out with their firearms to protect their property.
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