May Day People’s Strike! Target, Amazon, Instacart Workers Demand Safe Conditions & Pandemic Relief

This May Day, an unprecedented coalition of essential workers from Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target and FedEx are calling out sick or walking out during their lunch break to demand better health and safety conditions, along with hazard pay. Others are joining them for May Day actions that include rent strikes, car caravan protests and online organizing calling for a “People’s Bailout” and economic recovery plan that prioritizes workers. We speak with Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, which issued a call for a people’s strike starting May 1. “The corporations and the government are willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of us,” Akuno says. “We have to put people before profits.”

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[BlueGreyOM]

I will no longer use Amazon. I'm protesting with my wallet. I'm not going to fund Jeff B's big fat wallet while he treats his employees as dispensable cattle. Also, what I've realized during these lockdown times is, I really do not need the latest gadgets. I don't really need another flat screen TV or the current bluetooth device. It's time we leave the old, superficial world behind. During this "global pause" - this is a chance at hitting the reset button. This is a chance to become more conscious, creative and loving towards ourselves and our fellow human beings.

[carlathelibra]

Canadian here... will not buy anything (especially from Amazon!) today in solidarity!!

[highwayrockstar]

YES YES YES....we are working class and we ARE NECESSARY! We are not going to be invisible any longer!

[Dsullivann]

No purchases
No rent payments
No Uber/Lyft
Don't go to work
DEMAND your basic rights or they will continue to take them away from you!

[swordmary]

*HELL NO❗ WE WON'T GO❗ WE WON'T DIE FOR RICH MANS GOLD❗"*

[justrosy]

EVERYONE, here's ONE common sense way that ALL of us can strike! DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING ONLINE and DO NOT GO TO ANY STORE TO SHOP, OR ANY RESTAURANT TO EAT. DON'T ORDER IN. SPEND NO MONEY TODAY THAT YOU DON'T ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO.

[swordmary]

*"BUY DIRETCT - BUY LO•CAL- SO WE DON'T DIE FOR RICH MANS GOLD❗"*

[walzhi]

May Day. People in Chicago fought for workers right.

[ssharp]

This is the only coverage ive seen online of this.

[taris]

It's a good time to get Medicare For all on this May Day

[debraa.]

NO WEAPONS SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN STATE CAPITOLS!!! WHERE ARE POLICE??? INCOMPETENT!

[pdales]

That's how you strike not like the idiots striking to reopen.

[oghyeahoo]

More of the same..

"This is America" -Gambino
"They got money for wars, but cant
feed the poor" -Tupac
"What's going on?" -Marvin

[miltonvermeer]

Cancelled Amazon Prime two weeks ago and don't get anything delivered.

[AdamCharlton]

I'm not purchasing ANYTHING today

[atheamarcosamir]

People before profits? That's never going to happen in the United Corporations of America.

[pacerodi]

The whole world, as we know it, is dis·in·te·grat-ing!
Time is up, folks!
Take guess who is the culprit?

[joshparrott]

Amazon's shipping speed algorithm has adjusted for this protest. Adverts using this pandemic to sell stuff were in production last month. We live in a sick society. "It is no measure of health to become well-adjusted to a sick society" -Jiddu K

[nambians]

We need more of this! I stand in solidarity with this cause!

[impliedlines]

Stand with essential workers boycott these companies. Demand safe conditions, rent cancelation, and equitable hazard pay