Profile of Stacy Mitchell, the driving force behind Athena, a coalition of ~50 labor, small business, and social justice groups aiming to curb Amazon's power
Stacy Mitchell knew that taking on a trillion-dollar company would be a lopsided fight. But the pandemic has not only made Amazon more essential. Tweets: @alexbmorse , @zephyrteachout , @bloombergme , @nytimesbusiness , @akathereader , @greenhousenyt , @katrinanation , @stacyfmitchell , and @hypervisible Tweets: Alex Morse / @alexbmorse : Love this profile of @StacyfMitchell who has been fighting for people & local business since day 1. The work of @ILSR has been instrumental in building the local economy in Holyoke. These are the voices that need to be heard in Washington, especially now. https://www.nytimes.com/... Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout : You'll find a lot of hope and brilliance in this article. Because things are pretty dire and we need to support these superstars. https://www.nytimes.com/... Mike Bloomberg / @bloombergme : Working with @ilsr allowed us to break from Waste Management grip on “recycling.” Love to see this, and can't wait to see more of this thinking in Congress! CC: @ZephyrTeachout @biancawylie @openmarkets @matthewstoller @AOC https://twitter.com/... @nytimesbusiness : “Amazon has never been more powerful, but the consequences of its power have never been more visible,” said Stacy Mitchell, an antitrust reformer and monopoly critic. “It's laid bare.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Carolyn / @akathereader : '"If you do nothing but make demands, it reinforces the existing power structure. Who put the corporations in charge? It's our country," she said, adding, “If we don't regulate Amazon, we are effectively allowing it to regulate us."' https://twitter.com/... Steven Greenhouse / @greenhousenyt : Stacy Mitchell, a leading critic of Amazon: “If you relentlessly squeeze workers & suppliers, if you undermine every community's local businesses, if you capture all of this surplus & channel those gains to a small number of people,” that's bad for the US https://www.nytimes.com/... Katrina vandenHeuvel / @katrinanation : Here's that @nytimes article/ As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition Stacy Mitchell knew that taking on a trillion-dollar company would be a lopsided fight. But the pandemic has not only made Amazon more essential. It has also made it vulnerable. https://www.nytimes.com/... Stacy Mitchell / @stacyfmitchell : Amid all the troubles of the world, I'm heartened to be part of a growing movement of people fighting to wrest democracy back from monopoly power. https://www.nytimes.com/... @hypervisible : “Amazon has never been more powerful, but the consequences of its power have never been more visible...It's laid bare.” https://www.nytimes.com/...