Responding to Amazon's wrongdoing

Suggestions for responding to Amazon's wrongdoing beyond simply refusing to do business with it. From AthenaForAll.org.

1. States can enforce and update their antitrust laws to stop Amazon from hoarding wealth and power – for example, by stopping it from overcharging online vendors and crushing smaller competitors.
2. Stop giving Amazon public handouts like sales tax exemptions and discounted utility prices – especially since these subsidies come at the expense of public services like school budgets.
3. Support workers organizing for better working conditions and a say in how the corporation operates.
4. Pass privacy laws to stop Amazon from using its surveillance tools to punish workers and manipulate customers.
5. Require Amazon’s data centers to be powered by renewable energy instead of coal and gas, and make sure we don’t have to pay higher utility bills to offset its energy use.
6. Encourage state and local governments to buy their supplies from local businesses instead of signing enormous contracts with Amazon, and to place stricter rules on their contracts with cloud providers.
7. Rebalance the tax code so Amazon pays its fair share of taxes instead of getting lower rates than most small businesses and regular people.
8. Vote out politicians – even progressive ones – who consistently side with corporations at the expense of regular people.

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