Amazon’s creepy surveillance tech can now detect fear
Leave your thoughtsAmazon Web Services announced this week that it has made “improvements” to its Rekognition facial analysis software, including the ability…
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Beyond Amazon: An Inclusive Economic Vision for New York
Leave your thoughtsEarlier this year, grassroots organizations like the one I co-lead helped block the planned Amazon HQ2 deal in New York. The…
Activists hope to put pressure on banks that finance Homestead migrant detention center
Leave your thoughtsCritics of the Homestead detention center for unaccompanied migrant children have hung signs in the trees expressing their contempt for…
Amazon opponents call for transparency as they embrace a slate of bills that could overhaul how New York does business
Leave your thoughtsALBANY — The scuttled Amazon deal is a prime example of the need to overhaul New York’s approach to economic…
Immigrant Advocates Just Got JPMorgan Chase to Stop Financing Private Prisons
Leave your thoughtsOn March 5, JPMorgan Chase made headlines by announcing that the bank would no longer finance private-prison and immigrant-detention companies.…
Amazon had New York City in the bag. Then left-wing activists got fired up.
Leave your thoughtsThe deal drew opposition even before it was officially announced. The news that Amazon picked Queens as one of its…