A group of climate and labor activists have gathered in LA to protest Amazon and its founder. Jeff Bezos … and they are taking their opposition all the way.
Essential Workers Congress is a group of former and current Amazon warehouse employees leading the march, aimed at calling the company to its influence on working conditions and climate.
The protest at Ville Rogers State Park began at 2 p.m., the group will address a crowd about alleged corporate greed and abuse with the planet by Amazon.
Signs were also seen calling many people “tax bezos”.
March from Jeff Bezos’ Beverly Hills mansion!
4, Sunday Sunday 2PMCorporate greed fuels the crisis of the environment. We need an alliance of environmentalists, workers and consumers to fight back and this protest is presented today.# People ver profit # Climate activism pic.twitter.com/H80bgvXZKK
– United Teachers Los Angeles # Yeson15 (લા Outlaw) October October 1, 2020
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Protesters are now marching less than a mile from the park to the Bezos pad in Beverly Hills, where they plan to stop and demonstrate before returning to the park.
This march was promoted earlier this week with the tagline tagline, “Wrong Amazon is burning!” … and the protest came a week before Amazon’s popular Prime Day.
As we have reported … the e-commerce giant was revealed in the vicinity of what is publicly revealed to be a bad week. 20 cases of coronavirus Between its labor force from March.
And, this protest is not really about that.