Hundreds protest Amazon facial recognition partnership with ICE
SFBay / July 15, 2019 / Aaron Levy-Wolins A tight crowd of a few hundred people packed in front of Amazon’s San Francisco downtown office Monday to protest the company’s technological cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read the...
On Prime Day, Amazon workers and immigrants’ rights organizations are protesting
TechCrunch / July 15, 2019 / Megan Rose Dickey On the start of Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year, Amazon workers and activists are taking to the streets today in protest of the retail giant. Protests are planned for San Francisco, Minnesota, New York, Seattle...
City weighs new corporate tax on stock compensation as tech companies prepare to go public
SF Examiner Apr. 24, 2019 / Joshua Sabatini San Francisco voters may have the chance in November to boost the tax on stock compensation under a proposal announced Wednesday by Supervisor Gordon Mar to target tech companies going public. Mar’s plan would tax...
