a lot of people are talking about how it’s pointless to boycott Amazon during the strike bc Amazon has so many subsidiaries that it seems impossible to avoid them all for a week.
but the strike is about warehouse workers for Amazon.com specifically.
if you can avoid whole foods and audible etc. during the strike, go for it!! but the really essential piece is that you do not purchase anything from Amazon.com for the duration of the strike. it’s okay to be specific here.
it is better to do something than nothing, and in this case, no one is even expecting a boycott of all the subsidiaries – the part that will be most traceable to the strike will be the drop in purchases from Amazon.com anyway.
Do not visit Amazon.com until 17 July 2018 or until the strike ends, whichever happens last.
people are talking about it like it’s just the 10th but please prime day here is not until the 16th/17th
not giving your money to a business that’s currently striking is literally an essential part of a strike.
Amazon brings in over 34 BILLION dollars every day. Even a one-day boycott could mean massive leverage for the strikers – especially if the boycott coincided with one of the most profitable days Amazon expected to have all year, as this one does.
Do not visit Amazon.com on 10 July 2018 (or July 15-16 in the US)!
While we’re talking about effective boycotting, boycotting Amazon means more than boycotting Amazon, because Amazon has subsidiaries that also help it make money. If you’re going to boycott Amazon, you also need to boycott the following subsidiaries:
AWS Elemental
AbeBooks
Alexa Internet
Audible
Blink Home
Brilliance Audio
ComiXology
CreateSpace
Diapers.com
Double Helix Games
Evi
Fabric.com
GoodReads
IMDb
Junglee
Mobipocket
Ring
Shelfari
Shopbop
Souq.com
TenMarks Education, Inc.
Twitch
Whole Foods Market
Woot
Zappos
A boycott is not effective unless you attack it on all fronts. This is why boycotting things like McDonalds or Coca Cola are so ineffective– they have so many subsidiaries and supporting businesses that they can afford a frontal hit and still make money from its “family” companies.
If you truly want to help this boycott, make sure to boycott Amazon and its subsidiaries.
“If you’re a political enemy of fascism though, either they lose or you die”
Transcript of the gifs:
If you’re a fascist and anti-fascists come for you, you have a choice. You can give it up. You can renounce what you said. You could go on with the rest of your life and stop turning up to fascist rallies. Anti-fascists probably aren’t going to be your best friends, but they’ll move on.
But if you’re a person of color, if you’re trans, or a person with a disability, or gay, or Jewish and fascists come for you, there is nothing you can do to make them happy except stop existing.
That’s the key difference between the far-left and the far-right. Anti-fascists organize themselves against those that are building fascism. If you are doing that, that is something you can nonviolently stop doing. If you’re a political enemy of antifa, you can become a friend. If you’re a political enemy of fascism though, their they lose or you die.
Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.
Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.
Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.
Please remember this includes subsidiaries like Twitch and Audible.
This is tomorrow!
Please do not shop on Amazon tomorrow.
Please do not stream Amazon music or video tomorrow
Please do not order from sites using Amazon Payments tomorrow.
During the 1980s, more gay men died in New York City during the AIDS crisis than all recorded deaths of American soldiers in Vietnam. You need to know that.
do you want to know something?? I always wondered what the hell kind of hairstyle the Ancient Egyptians were trying to portray with depictions like these
and this
until I did my hair this morning and
oh
welp
you can take the noses off our statues but until you find a way to take Egypt out of Africa we’re still going to find ourselves
I’m reblogging this post without all the salty, racist commentary because I’m sick of looking at it. please spread this around again in its pure form for posterity.
What’s funny is that white people thought they were hats/crowns 😂
And here’s some pictures of the Afar people, who still live on the horn of Africa today.
Cool, huh?
Beautiful
People thought it was Hats and Crowns? How could they not see hair?
The same reason archaeologists, upon finding a woman’s skeleton in the grave of a famous Roman gladiator, immediately wondered where the gladiator’s skeleton was: Old Straight White Man™ brand denial.
Same way they denied the Really Gay Egyptian Tomb, too. It’s kind of a Thing.
This post is amazing, I’m so glad it exists. I have learned.
There is so much greatness in this post and all white people care about is defending why they thought the depictions are hats. White people??? Why are you like this???
I’m salty as fuck that we were taught they were crowns at SCHOOL. For Christ sake.
Their hair is laid to rest. How do I get on this wave?????
I’m really afraid how woke my kids are gonna be in school.
This is why Eurocentrism is bad for archaeology, and we really need race and gender theory. We can only learn about the past if we’re able to ask the right kinds of questions.
what is with this odd movement of african americans who want to
appropriate egyptian culture and history, pretend they were the real
egyptians, not the brown people who live there today, and then say its
white peoples fault africans werent credited with egyptian civilization.
its disgusting and racist
I’m white, so I can’t speak on the subject with any great authority, but you are talking about a group of people who by and large had their own history, culture, and self-determination violently ripped away from them and erased for many generations. White colonizing governments do historically have a record of erasing non-white history for their own gain, so it should be no surprise if the people they have colonized or forcibly migrated are ill-informed about their own history, or are skeptical of the history that was taught to them.
Does it really seem so strange and wrong to you that African Americans would feel a desire to re-connect with their African heritage, or that they might be attracted to the idea of connection with a powerful and highly advanced African civilization, especially when they see faces like theirs reflected in some of its artwork? That’s not appropriation, and there is nothing disgusting or racist about it. It’s a perfectly understandable human longing.
Geographically speaking, Egypt exists at a crossroads of continents. There is a long and well-documented history of trade routes (both along the Nile Valley and the Mediterranean coast), waves of population movement, and invasion. During the 25th Dynasty, Egypt was part of the Kushite Empire, ruled by Nubians; an ethnic group indigenous to what is now southern Egypt/northern Sudan, who were black in the modern, racial sense of the word. The population of Egypt is not now, nor has it been since ancient times, made up of a single uniform ethnicity.
Black people desiring or claiming a connection with Ancient Egyptian history and heritage, regardless of whether such a connection exists, genetically speaking, for individuals on a case by case basis, does not harm anyone. Hostile and ignorant attitudes like yours do.
Egyptians are not Nubians. Nubians lived south to Egypt and due to their connections they liked and adopted the nubian hair style, which is this, but they didn’t have african hair like them, so they resolved to wigs. That’s all.
Some things I think it’s worth bearing in mind when we talk about this:
Sweeping generalizations about the ethnic makeup of the population of Ancient Egypt aren’t useful, constructive, or accurate.
This civilization existed over a period of millennia, at a geographical crossroads, and included different areas and different population groups at different times.
In the ancient world, borders were not starkly drawn, heavily policed, rarely-altered lines. Regional distinctions were defined by shared cultural identity, but also by the sphere of influence and power exerted by the ruling individual or government.
There has always been genetic mixing between neighboring populations, especially populations known to have had friendly trade relations.
Race, as we think about it today, is a modern construct. Prior to a few hundred years ago, identity was primarily based on where someone lived, what language they spoke, and what religion they practiced, rather than the color of their skin. “Egyptian” was not an ethnicity, but a cultural identity.
Making generalizations about the demographics of Ancient Egypt based on the ruling class (i.e., most well-preserved mummies and statues) makes about as much sense as making generalizations about the English peasantry using Henry VIII as your primary example, or making generalizations about the population of America based only on portraits of U.S. presidents.
tl;dr People who say “some Ancient Egyptians were black Africans” and people who say “most Ancient Egyptians were not black Africans” are both correct. People who say “all Ancient Egyptians were black Africans” or “no Ancient Egyptians were black Africans” are both wrong.
What if everyone in the US who makes under a living wage just… didn’t show up to work for 1 day.
Just 1 day.
No big march or loud protests that seem to be getting ignored lately.
Instead you stay home and don’t go to work.
Take it a step further and don’t buy anything either.
Can you imagine the chaos??
The 1% and ‘upper middle class’ wakes up for their morning Starbucks/drive through/ gas station/ breakfast run only to find the doors have not been opened yet?
People rushing from business to business, completely confused and upset because there is no one there to serve them?
PR reps for corporations panicking because they can’t just say “they didn’t show up because we refuse to pay them enough to live” that would tank the company. And what are they going to do? Fire everyone? There would be no one to replace that many people because it’s not like the upper classes would condescend to work a “low skill, entry level, job meant for teenagers”
CEOs and shareholders losing shares and billions of dollars because their greed singlehandedly ruined the company.
Capitalism depends upon your participation.
What if we chose not to?
I’m waiting.
It’s called general strike and it is an immensely powerful action
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