Local businesses must tell their stories, build community, then explain: "Amazon puts all that at risk."
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LETTER: SNAP BENEFITS FOR AMAZON WORKERS
I've been a Dig reader for a long time and read with interest your article on Amazon's low wages being subsidized with SNAP benefits (There's a Cure for Amazon's SNAP Abuse, DigBoston, March 23, 2021).
THERE’S A CURE FOR AMAZON’S SNAP ABUSE
The labor movement needs to fight harder for justice for gig workers
PRIVATE EYES ARE WATCHING YOU. AND SO ARE PUBLIC ONES, FROM MA TO …
“People have a fundamental right to travel without being tracked.”
TELL CONGRESS: IT’S TIME TO INVESTIGATE AMAZON’S SURVEILLANCE EMPIRE
We need lawmakers to intervene. A Congressional hearing will help to expose Amazon’s invasive data harvesting practices and restrict it from acting as a paid informant for the surveillance state.
WELCOME TO HELL WORLD: DEMONSTRATORS IN BOSTON PROTEST AN UNRESPONSIVE AMAZON OVER ICE SALES
“They like to present these tools as being neutral ... but these tools are being sold to ICE and DHS specifically to track immigrants, to track activists, and to use that information across law enforcement networks to terrorize communities and split families apart."
NO MOONSHOT REQUIRED
Can a neoliberal columnist for a billionaire’s newspaper understand that a better MBTA is possible if we tax the rich (and make public transportation truly public)?
It’s hardly a secret that I’m no fan of Boston Globe columnist Shirley Leung’s writing on matters political and economic. Which clearly reflects her belief that bringing big corporations to Boston and shovelling public money at them is the best way ...
WEEKEND WARRIORS: BOOZY MASS-BASED STONER SHOW ON AMAZON PULLS ZERO PUNCHES
We asked about his comedy adventure and about getting his show about “a group of immature losers” on Amazon.
GUEST OPINION: BOSTON MUST REJECT AN AMAZON HEADQUARTERS FOR THE SAKE OF SMALL BUSINESSES
Overall, rather than creating countless exemptions worth billions in corporate welfare to the third richest company in the world, lawmakers should focus on supporting the growth of local small businesses, which pay their fair share in taxes without asking for special treatment.