I thought I’d share a different perspective because I feel pretty differently. What gets me excited and hopeful is the exponential nature of some kinds of momentum and all the invisible, HUGE impacts that we can’t see, but are nonetheless happening.
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When we rewrote our letter incorporating both the Shipment Zero announcement and the reporting from
@bcmerchant which came out 3 days after Shipment Zero and described how Amazon was in bed with Big Oil, we hoped that maybe we’d get 1000 signatures in a week or maybe two.
We were blown away by the response! 3500 Amazon workers signed our letter in two days asking for big changes including the ending of AWS contracts that accurate oil and gas discovery and extraction. By the end of the week we had over 6000. Now over 8300 have signed.
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This lead to the action at the shareholder meeting in May. There were a lot of barriers to going, the biggest being shareholder paperwork proof which was confusing/difficult. (Btw, Amazon never required proof of shareholder ownership in the past. Badge was previously sufficient.)
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Other barriers: getting to another part of the city than where we work, getting up early for tech workers (ha), taking the morning off of work and clearing meetings. And yet, many many came. Stood with me when I presented. And we were all transformed.
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