Amazon is using our dollars to enable ICE’s abusive immigration enforcement and unconstitutional detentions.
Amazon Web Services’ partnership with DHS, ICE, Palantir and others has created a shockingly invasive system of mass surveillance. This system is enabling DHS to unconstitutionally detain US residents. Immigrants, many without any criminal charges, are being imprisoned indefinitely in horrid conditions without due process and habeas corpus.
Check out our resource guide for removing financial support from Amazon and its subsidiaries.
We’re organizing a boycott
We have real power as consumers of Amazon products and services. Amazon is financially vulnerable to our decision to spend money elsewhere because Amazon’s profits from ICE, DHS, Palantir, Flock, and other surveillance companies are only a small percentage of their net profit.
We’ve seen boycotts work. You’re likely familiar with famous boycotts from history including the Montgomery Bus boycott (1955-1956) and the United Farm Workers produce boycotts (1965-1970). We’ve seen recent successes too. In just the last two years, boycotts have been successful in getting Avelo airlines to end its contract with ICE, pressuring Spotify to stop playing ICE recruitment ads, and ensuring that Disney reinstated Kimmel after his censorship. Let’s make Amazon next.
