Athena Coalition
@athenaforall.bsky.social
We are 50+ grassroots orgs who represent 1M+ members across the US, building democratic power to end Amazon's abuse of our communities / #WeAreAthena
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So how do we fight back against the tech oligarchy, and is boycotting Amazon the answer? 🧵
"But these days...more and more tech employees see themselves as rank-and-file workers stuck in a conventional conflict with management." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
"But these days...more and more tech employees see themselves as rank-and-file workers stuck in a conventional conflict with management." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
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Billionaires are getting richer from massive data centers while they raise our costs, take away our jobs, and make us sick by dirtying our air and water.
We deserve leaders who will fight back and keep our people safe. Is that you? wfpus.org/DataCenters
We deserve leaders who will fight back and keep our people safe. Is that you? wfpus.org/DataCenters
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Billionaires are getting richer from massive data centers while they raise our costs, take away our jobs, and make us sick by dirtying our air and water.
We deserve leaders who will fight back and keep our people safe. Is that you? wfpus.org/DataCenters
We deserve leaders who will fight back and keep our people safe. Is that you? wfpus.org/DataCenters
We couldn't agree more! It's past time for Big Tech to pay their own utility bills.
I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
It's Time for a Moratorium on Data Centers | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We couldn't agree more! It's past time for Big Tech to pay their own utility bills.
Louisiana regulators are pushing for a plan that would force residents to subsidize up to 50% of the electricity needs for data centers, with no public input on which projects are approved. blog.ucs.org/paul-arbaje/...
Louisiana Regulators Try to Shut Public Out of Data Center Policymaking—Again
On Wednesday, December 17, 2025, Louisiana’s main utility regulatory agency, the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC), will vote on whether it should:
Open a proceeding to get stakeholder in...
blog.ucs.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Louisiana regulators are pushing for a plan that would force residents to subsidize up to 50% of the electricity needs for data centers, with no public input on which projects are approved. blog.ucs.org/paul-arbaje/...
"Regions with significant data center activity have already endured price increases by as much as 267% over the past five years, the three lawmakers wrote." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices
Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen go after tech firms including Google and Amazon
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"Regions with significant data center activity have already endured price increases by as much as 267% over the past five years, the three lawmakers wrote." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Big Tech is really doing its best to convince people that giving their land, water, and power to billionaires is somehow patriotic.
Fox tells Americans to buy artificial trees so Christmas tree farms can be used for data centers:
"Everybody needs to get on board."
"Everybody needs to get on board."
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Big Tech is really doing its best to convince people that giving their land, water, and power to billionaires is somehow patriotic.
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From @maketheroadnv.bsky.social: All across the country, rate payers are facing eye-popping increases. What is to blame for the sudden increase in costs? Big tech’s AI-fueled data center frenzy—and it’s about to get even worse.
nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/12/d...
nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/12/d...
Dirty data centers will drive up our utility bills • Nevada Current
If your family is anything like mine, you dread opening up your NV Energy bill every month. Over the summer and fall, I thought I was seeing double; my bill was so high. All across the country, rate p...
nevadacurrent.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
From @maketheroadnv.bsky.social: All across the country, rate payers are facing eye-popping increases. What is to blame for the sudden increase in costs? Big tech’s AI-fueled data center frenzy—and it’s about to get even worse.
nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/12/d...
nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/12/d...
When cities and schools buy supplies from Amazon, they think they're getting good deals. @ilsr.bsky.social has a new report showing how many of them are getting ripped off instead.
December 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
When cities and schools buy supplies from Amazon, they think they're getting good deals. @ilsr.bsky.social has a new report showing how many of them are getting ripped off instead.
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BREAKING: Trump's executive order challenges states’ authority to regulate AI and mitigate its massive harms.
Not only is it senseless for Trump to try blocking states’ ability to regulate Big Tech, he actually lacks the authority.
States should ignore this ridiculous EO.
Not only is it senseless for Trump to try blocking states’ ability to regulate Big Tech, he actually lacks the authority.
States should ignore this ridiculous EO.
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
BREAKING: Trump's executive order challenges states’ authority to regulate AI and mitigate its massive harms.
Not only is it senseless for Trump to try blocking states’ ability to regulate Big Tech, he actually lacks the authority.
States should ignore this ridiculous EO.
Not only is it senseless for Trump to try blocking states’ ability to regulate Big Tech, he actually lacks the authority.
States should ignore this ridiculous EO.
In 2023, Amazon settled a lawsuit over failing to protect Ring users' privacy. Now it wants people to trust the apps facial recognition features 😬 techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/a...
Amazon's Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells | TechCrunch
The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn't used to train...
techcrunch.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In 2023, Amazon settled a lawsuit over failing to protect Ring users' privacy. Now it wants people to trust the apps facial recognition features 😬 techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/a...
Amazon wants to pull funding from a European clean energy group over potential changes to the way it calculates emissions -- changes that would make it harder for Amazon to claim its data centers are powered sustainably (they're not). www.ft.com/content/4bbd...
Climate rift opens between Amazon and rivals in row over data centre power
US tech giant accused of pressuring top European clean energy group over changes to emissions rules
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Amazon wants to pull funding from a European clean energy group over potential changes to the way it calculates emissions -- changes that would make it harder for Amazon to claim its data centers are powered sustainably (they're not). www.ft.com/content/4bbd...
In 2023, Amazon charged some schools $13 for a case of markers, while other schools paid $74 for the exact same product -- a difference of 469%. It's time for local gov'ts to break up with Amazon. RSVP for the Jan 8th webinar with @ilsr.bsky.social to learn how: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Break Up with Amazon: A Citizen’s Guide to Ending Amazon’s Government Contracts. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ...
A recent investigation by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has uncovered that Amazon is capturing billions of dollars in government purchasing in cities, counties, and school districts across the...
us02web.zoom.us
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In 2023, Amazon charged some schools $13 for a case of markers, while other schools paid $74 for the exact same product -- a difference of 469%. It's time for local gov'ts to break up with Amazon. RSVP for the Jan 8th webinar with @ilsr.bsky.social to learn how: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Too many state and local governments blindly trust Amazon to offer low prices on things like school supplies. In reality, the site's dynamic pricing means schools can pay wildly different prices for items purchased on the same day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US schools face big price swings for basics under Amazon’s ‘dynamic pricing’, report claims
Amazon calls the report ‘flawed and misleading’ and says it offers lower prices than competitors
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Too many state and local governments blindly trust Amazon to offer low prices on things like school supplies. In reality, the site's dynamic pricing means schools can pay wildly different prices for items purchased on the same day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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1. Amazon has become a major force in how cities, counties & schools buy basic supplies. Our new report finds Amazon is using opaque pricing algorithms to drive up costs and eliminate transparency—while harming competition by pushing out better-performing independent suppliers.
Turning Public Money into Amazon’s Profits | Independent Business
Amazon has quietly captured a growing share of government purchasing. This major report explains how, and what to do about it.
ilsr.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
1. Amazon has become a major force in how cities, counties & schools buy basic supplies. Our new report finds Amazon is using opaque pricing algorithms to drive up costs and eliminate transparency—while harming competition by pushing out better-performing independent suppliers.
ICE couldn't do its job without Amazon Web Services. That's why organizers in Oakland, DC, NYC, and San Bernardino are rallying to expose the company's role in storing the data that ICE uses to track & target people.
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
ICE couldn't do its job without Amazon Web Services. That's why organizers in Oakland, DC, NYC, and San Bernardino are rallying to expose the company's role in storing the data that ICE uses to track & target people.
"We see you Amazon, and we see you helping I.C.E. surveil, track and terrorize our neighbors." 🐎🐎🐎
Workers with Warehouse Worker Resource Center marching in Bloomington CA yesterday!
Workers with Warehouse Worker Resource Center marching in Bloomington CA yesterday!
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"We see you Amazon, and we see you helping I.C.E. surveil, track and terrorize our neighbors." 🐎🐎🐎
Workers with Warehouse Worker Resource Center marching in Bloomington CA yesterday!
Workers with Warehouse Worker Resource Center marching in Bloomington CA yesterday!
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This Cyber Monday, remember that Amazon is raking in billions of dollars while offering $1 billion worth of free services to ICE & the fascist U.S. government. It's time for local governments to cut ties with Amazon: the largest cloud-computing provider for DHS and ICE. #NoTechforICE #MakeAmazonPay
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This Cyber Monday, remember that Amazon is raking in billions of dollars while offering $1 billion worth of free services to ICE & the fascist U.S. government. It's time for local governments to cut ties with Amazon: the largest cloud-computing provider for DHS and ICE. #NoTechforICE #MakeAmazonPay
This holiday weekend, organizers in Chicago protested to expose Amazon's ties to ICE. AWS is the computing backbone of ICE’s surveillance operation – it stores vast amounts of data that ICE uses to track and target people. @caarprnow.bsky.social @chitorture.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This holiday weekend, organizers in Chicago protested to expose Amazon's ties to ICE. AWS is the computing backbone of ICE’s surveillance operation – it stores vast amounts of data that ICE uses to track and target people. @caarprnow.bsky.social @chitorture.bsky.social
One more reason to shop indie -- your local stores aren't collaborating with ICE.
Black Friday into Cyber Monday is Amazon's biggest sales weekend of the year. Activists are urging you to think twice about whether the convenience is worth supporting a company actively facilitating ICE's deportation regime. @athenaforall.bsky.social inequality.org/article/this...
This Black Friday Weekend, Skip Amazon
The e-commerce giant is powering ICE’s deportation raids while profiting handsomely from Trump administration contracts.
inequality.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
One more reason to shop indie -- your local stores aren't collaborating with ICE.
In the words of an AWS software engineer, "When the AI bubble pops, Amazon will have taken a huge amount of land, water, and wealth, and the public needs to know."
We're firing a shot across the bow!
1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs.
And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures): www.amazonclimatejustice.org
1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs.
And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures): www.amazonclimatejustice.org
PR: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs, say 1000+ Amazon employees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Press contact: hello@amazonclimatejustice.org AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs, say 1000+ Amazon employees Over 1,000 Amazon emplo...
docs.google.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In the words of an AWS software engineer, "When the AI bubble pops, Amazon will have taken a huge amount of land, water, and wealth, and the public needs to know."
As Amazon starts its busiest sales season, organizers with @freedcproject.bsky.social are kicking off protests around the country aimed at exposing the company’s ties to ICE. AWS stores and processes vast quantities of data that ICE uses to track and target people.
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
As Amazon starts its busiest sales season, organizers with @freedcproject.bsky.social are kicking off protests around the country aimed at exposing the company’s ties to ICE. AWS stores and processes vast quantities of data that ICE uses to track and target people.
If Amazon is offering $50 billion worth of computing services to the government, they're almost certainly not doing it out of the good of their hearts. We wonder what they expect to get out of this. www.reuters.com/business/ret...
www.reuters.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If Amazon is offering $50 billion worth of computing services to the government, they're almost certainly not doing it out of the good of their hearts. We wonder what they expect to get out of this. www.reuters.com/business/ret...
"...the Bezos takeover underscores a darker shift in culture, where creative platforms, institutions and even media are increasingly controlled by a few power players." www.the-independent.com/life-style/b...
Have Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez just doomed the Met Gala?
As the Amazon billionaire and his wife are announced as the financial backers for the biggest event on the A-list social calendar, Ellie Muir looks into what their involvement means for the institutio...
www.the-independent.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"...the Bezos takeover underscores a darker shift in culture, where creative platforms, institutions and even media are increasingly controlled by a few power players." www.the-independent.com/life-style/b...
Hmm, "streamlining" seems like a fancy way of saying "enriching a handful of executives" here... 🤔 nypost.com/2025/11/11/b...
Amazon cuts 700 jobs in NYC alone on quest to streamline by slashing 30,000 positions
“The size of the Amazon cuts remains a head scratcher given the battle for talent and [the] AI revolution in motion,” said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives.
nypost.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Hmm, "streamlining" seems like a fancy way of saying "enriching a handful of executives" here... 🤔 nypost.com/2025/11/11/b...
Profits are up, taxes are down, yet thousands of workers are getting laid off anyway. Almost like the economy doesn't actually work for everyone... 👀https://www.geekwire.com/2025/big-beautiful-tax-benefit-amazon-and-other-tech-giants-reap-the-rewards-of-new-law-for-now/
‘Big Beautiful’ tax benefit: Amazon and other tech giants reap the rewards of new law, for now
Amazon’s cash tax payments fell 45% in the third quarter, driven largely by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, even as profits surged 38%. The new U.S. law, championed by President Trump, allows ...
www.geekwire.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Profits are up, taxes are down, yet thousands of workers are getting laid off anyway. Almost like the economy doesn't actually work for everyone... 👀https://www.geekwire.com/2025/big-beautiful-tax-benefit-amazon-and-other-tech-giants-reap-the-rewards-of-new-law-for-now/