Demonstrators holding a banner while marching towards Bezos' penthouse during a protest against Amazon in New York, US, on Dec 2, 2019. The optics war between Amazon.com Inc and its critics is intensifying on Cyber Monday with labour, environmental and digital privacy groups staging events around the globe to amplify their concerns about the world's biggest online retailer. — Photos: Bloomberg
The optics war between Amazon.com Inc and its critics is intensifying on Cyber Monday with labour, environmental and digital privacy groups staging events around the globe to amplify their concerns about the world’s biggest online retailer.
At a first-ever Amazon Symposium in Brussels, activists discussed such issues as worker rights, antitrust laws and climate change. In a snowy New York, more than three dozen demonstrators rallied outside the Manhattan penthouse of chief executive officer Jeff Bezos. A group in San Bernardino plans to protest in the evening near an Amazon warehouse in the Inland Empire, a key logistics hub serving southern California.
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