Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
Amazon employees demanding climate leadership. Views ≠ Amazon. Reach out if you’re an employee! Dm or amazonemployeesclimatejustice@gmail.com
- Reposted by Amazon Employees for Climate JusticeTHIS! "If your vote didn't matter, if your say didn't matter, they wouldn't be spending $100 million to drown it out...The power of the people is always stronger." Well worth watching!
- The reasons why there are virtually no guardrails in the AI industry explained in 13 minutes by @karenhao.bsky.social . If you need a teaser for encouragement, I have screenshot a few key moments👇 1/9 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOm...
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- We had so much fun postering around Amazon's offices to show that Amazon corporate workers are pushing back on the company's reckless AI plans. Sign our letter if you work at Amazon or sign our solidarity statement if you don't, link in bio! TY to friends at @stand.earth @troublemakers.bsky.social!
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- "We experience profound cognitive dissonance when CEOs talk about how AI will create a prosperous future of creativity supported by Universal Basic Income, all while fighting tooth and nail against the taxation that supports even the most basic social safety net." —AECJ member Amy Wang in The Hill.
- "Amazon is a bit like the businesses that sold shovels during the gold rush. It is in the company’s interest to proclaim loudly and often that there really is a lot of gold out there."
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- We'll be there! Will you?
- Put the second session of the People's Forum on AI on your calendar! The first one was super inspiring, and this one will be too. Last time we were AT CAPACITY for the church, so sign up in advance: actionnetwork.org/events/ai-pe... It's time to change the trajectory.
- Reposted by Amazon Employees for Climate JusticeOver 1000 Amazon employees have signed a letter warning that the company's race for AI is trampling over workers and the climate. Read the full letter from @amzn4climate.bsky.social here: www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter
- “‘AI’ is being used as a magic word that is code for less worker power, hoarding of more resources, and making an uninformed gamble on high energy demand computer chips magically saving us from climate change."
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- “It’s not just about what will happen if they succeed in developing superintelligence,” says a decade-long veteran in Amazon’s entertainment business. “What we’re trying to say is, look, the costs we’re paying now aren’t worth it. We are in the few remaining years to avoid catastrophic warming.”
- 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
- “We’ve watched the company light a match to the Climate Pledge. We thought this was a company we could feel proud of, but I use AI every day & its functionality in no way justifies adding this massive, unregulated layer of fossil fuel powered infrastructure. We had to try to do something.”
- “These layoffs are basically theatre. They want potential customers to think AWS’s AI services are so amazing that they'll be able to cut costs by laying off workers too. And they want workers to think we’re replaceable, so that we’ll work crazy hours."
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View full threadWhether you’re at Amazon or not, please join us, and sign: www.amazonclimatejustice.org If we’re not willing to tell the truth about AI impacts, who will be?
- Reposted by Amazon Employees for Climate JusticePut the second session of the People's Forum on AI on your calendar! The first one was super inspiring, and this one will be too. Last time we were AT CAPACITY for the church, so sign up in advance: actionnetwork.org/events/ai-pe... It's time to change the trajectory.
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- Register now for a conversation on December 11 @ 1pm ET about how we organize for change in the tech industry!
- Reposted by Amazon Employees for Climate JusticeRep from @amzn4climate.bsky.social: “Rather than enriching these communities, data centers are extracting resources…I’ve seen managers push AI on employees without regard to the environmental consequences…one colleague of mine got her layoff notice at 2am, as she was working late…
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- Reposted by Amazon Employees for Climate JusticeThe AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
- Thank you @adamconover.net for the support! If you work at Amazon, sign our letter! If you don't, you can still support us by signing a solidarity statement! www.amazonclimatejustice.org/solidarity
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- We'll be speaking here...join us next week!
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- If you're an Amazon Prime member and concerned about Amazon's climate impact, join Stand's webinar TOMORROW for how Prime customers can work together to put pressure on Amazon! Register now👇👇
- Excellent pod with @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Cory Doctorow. TL;DR: Tech workers, organize! It's the only way to disenshittify the internet (and regain a sense of agency).
- We'll be part of this!
- "Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore. It’s building empires." www.authoritarian-stack.info
- @karenhao.bsky.social TYSM for posting about our open letter campaign! Many of us are reading your book and see a lot of parallels with OpenAI's empire-building and Amazon's empire-building. We're trying to reach as many of our coworkers as possible!
- Reposted by Amazon Employees for Climate JusticeThere's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
- Reposted by Amazon Employees for Climate JusticeIt’s always a good time to follow the folks at @amzn4climate.bsky.social “Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday… Amazon shares rose 1.2% to $226.97 on Monday. The company plans to report third-quarter earnings on Thursday.” www.reuters.com/business/wor...
- We've all heard the rumors that this was coming. Whether Amazon is truly replacing employees with AI, or just trying to show that that's what companies can do when they use AI...it's one of many reasons we're concerned about Amazon's use of AI, and why we're standing up. www.seattletimes.com
- 1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
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- Tell all your friends in tech!
- 1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
- Reposted by Amazon Employees for Climate JusticeOur annual Circuit Breakers conference is live! 300 tech workers spanning the US, Mexico, Philippines, India and Kenya working in different layers of the global value chain gather across 40-different worker-led sessions exchanging strategies and tactics! Afterwards we will digitize sessions!
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- On Monday, Trump sent the US back to the 1800's in search of AI dominance: he's gifting $625 million to decrepit coal plants, letting them delay adherence to water pollution rules by years, lowering the royalties from 12.5% to just 7%, & offering up 13 MILLION ACRES of federal land for coal mines.🧵
- To put that acreage in context, that’s six times larger than Yellowstone National Park and includes tracts in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah and Alabama” AND...
- The choice is stark: which world do we want?
- With the recent attention to rising electricity costs and delayed climate goals, this is an inflection point! Tech workers have a rare opportunity to stand up and change the trajectory of the AI buildout. Please sign!
- 1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
- 2/ In recent years, tech leaders have accelerated their race to build the most powerful AI first. “Sink or swim”, “AI is not going anywhere”, and “work with it or be replaced” have become mantras in workspaces at Amazon and beyond. time.com/6255952/ai-i...
- 3/ As employees, we have serious concerns about this aggressive rollout during the global rise of authoritarianism & our most important years to reverse the climate crisis. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
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View full thread11/ Help us bring the AI conversation back down to earth. Send this letter to anyone you know who works at Amazon. Ask them to read it and sign it. Amazon’s made it hard to have open conversations internally, so we need your help getting the word out. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
- 1/ Amazon is helping build a more militarized surveillance state with fewer protections for ordinary people. Amazon, Meta, MSFT & Google lobbied to ban state regulation on AI for 10 years; Trump included financial disincentives for state regulation in his AI Action Plan. www.ft.com/content/52ae...
- 2/ Trump demanded an end to “wokeness” in AI; Amazon has wound down its commitments to DEI and offered the administration a 1 billion dollar coupon for AWS, with a DOGE commissioner calling the deal “a foundational piece to help implement Trump’s AI Action Plan.” www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/a...
- 3/ The military wants AI technologies at top speed; Amazon has announced a collaboration with an autonomous weapons company. aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...
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View full thread8/ This is why we’re asking our Amazon coworkers to sign an open letter with us. If enough of us sign and this letter enters public awareness, it will add a much-needed dose of reality to the larger AI conversation, and may force leadership to respond. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
