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Yanis Varoufakis calls for Black Friday boycott of Amazon

Thousands or workers to lose pay and thousands of small suppliers to lose profit. Better to ask governments to support more people working via internet and small businesses to earn from online sales?

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Economist takes on retail giant before planned day of international protests

The economist Yanis Varoufakis has called for a one-day boycott of Amazon on Black Friday as trade unionists, environmental activists, privacy campaigners and tax justice advocates plan coordinated actions against the company’s sites and supply chain.

Amazon’s success during the coronavirus pandemic – at one point the company was reported to be making sales of $11,000 (£8,200) a second – has vastly inflated its share price, increasing the personal wealth of its chief executive, Jeff Bezos, already the world’s richest man, by $70bn. Bloomberg estimates his current wealth to be $187bn.

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Trump invites GOP Michigan lawmakers to White House amid challenge to election results

Expect he wants them to break law and overturn electors – https://ift.tt/3pJZCXy

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President Trump on Thursday invited Republican state legislators from Michigan to visit the White House as he wages a fierce campaign to undermine the election results in the Wolverine State and other battlegrounds that w…

The Problem With Coronavirus School Closures

https://ift.tt/36Rodkm But they will still have parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents and teachers who be alive to help them catch up when we have made it safe for them again. Losing loved ones is not the price to pay for disruption of the old normal!

Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.