Amazon's immense multi-level warehouse called a fulfillment center in Kent, Washington. The nascent movement to hold Amazon accountable gained momentum this week when a grassroots coalition, focused on issues ranging from labour rights and climate change to digital surveillance, launched an organisation called Athena. — Seattle Times/TNS
In 2017, as cities and states including Philadelphia and Delaware built out lavish incentive packages and sales pitches in hopes of luring Amazon's second headquarters, a resistance emerged.
Critics worried about the displacement of residents, the company's surveillance-heavy labour practices, and the logic of offering billions of dollars in financial incentives to a company owned by one of America's richest men. Organisers eventually succeeded in pushing Amazon out of one of its chosen locations: Long Island City, Queens.
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