Seattle officials visit New York with warnings about Amazon: ‘They thought they could bury us’
Leave your thoughtsTwo Seattle lawmakers traveled to New York to share war stories from their battles with Amazon to a group of…
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Amazon Met with the City Council About the HQ2 Deal. Here’s What Went Down.
Leave your thoughtsNew York City Council members grilled Amazon executives about the company’s plan to build a secondary headquarters in New York…
The fight over Amazon will be a long, hard slog
Leave your thoughtsSupporters might have underestimated the opposition L.J. Williams walked into the conference room at LaGuardia Community College to discuss Amazon’s…
Amazon HQ2 and the ‘Gentrification of Jobs’
Leave your thoughtsAmazon has said each HQ2 site will result in 25,000 jobs. Will the working-class benefit? Will Amazon train locals for…
JPMorgan Chase Made a Secret $159.5 Million Deal To Finance a Private Prison
Leave your thoughtsActivists have been pressuring the bank and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, to stop their dealing with the private detention industry.…
Immigrant Groups Have a Special Reason to Oppose Amazon’s Move
Leave your thoughtsImmigrant rights groups in New York are outraged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement met with Amazon over the summer to…
Flake gets a firsthand look at rage about Kavanaugh
Leave your thoughtsWASHINGTON (AP) — Moments after pivotal Sen. Jeff Flake announced he would vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh,…
Below the Surface of ICE: The Corporations Profiting From Immigrant Detention
Leave your thoughtsActivists are targeting the companies that make ICE run. About 60 members of ICE Out of LA faced off with…
Niños protestan frente a la sede de un banco en Nueva York para pedir que no inviertan en prisiones para inmigrantes
Leave your thoughtsDecenas de menores se concentraron frente a la sede de JP Morgan Chase, donde llevaron a cabo un simulacro de…
Immigrant advocates attack banks for financing private prisons
Leave your thoughtsJPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other banks have come under fire for helping to finance private prisons used by the…