THIS IS A SAMPLING OF THE EVENTS ORGANIZED BY THE NCGP. THIS EVENT HAS PASSED, BUT PLEASE CHECK BACK HERE FOR MORE EVENTS TO COME.
JOIN US for #BAmazon union vote solidarity events in NC and elsewhere on March 20!

Over the past several weeks, North Carolina Green Party and many other Green locals and states have been active in supporting the Bessemer, Alabama Amazon warehouse worker vote to organize under the representation of the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union (RWDSU). This potentially historic campaign, nicknamed “Organize #BAmazon”, began as a bold effort by predominantly black workers who first formed the “Bamazon Workers Union”; it is the first Amazon unionization vote in over six years and could become Amazon’s first organized facility in the United States. A “YES” vote victory would have a tremendous symbolic impact and could change momentum in the largely unorganized US South by showing everyday people, nationally and internationally, what truly is possible when workers unite.
On Sat., Feb 20, several NCGP members participated in #BAmazon Solidarity actions coordinated by the Southern Workers Assembly outside of Amazon warehouses in Charlotte, Kernersville (Triad), Raleigh, Durham and elsewhere. We held signs and participated in distributing flyers to Amazon workers about the Bessemer warehouse vote during their shift change. In general, the Amazon employees who stopped to take flyers were extremely receptive, and many were unaware of such unionization efforts, particularly in the South. Weather willing, we will be out at these facilities again on Saturday Mach 20.
During the height of the pandemic, while millions of frontline employees were working in extremely dangerous conditions, many becoming infected with Covid-19, top-paid white collar employees were overwhelmingly allowed to work from home and Jeff Bezos was making an average 13 million dollars an hour. In fact, on more than one occasion, Bezos raked in 13 billion dollars in one day. While the vast majority of the world has been dealing with the fallout from the pandemic and the greatest global recession since the Great Depression, the 660 richest billionaires have added over a trillion dollars to their wealth.
Realizing the threat of employee revolt in the face of these gross injustices, Amazon has moved to hire spy firms such the onerous Pinkerton security corporation as well as the most sought after union busting firms. They even convinced local government to change stoplight timing near the warehouse to discourage pro-union activity.
The NC Green Party abhors this unsustainable inequity driven by a profit system that is holding back the further advancement of humanity and threatening the very future of our planet and its inhabitants. NCGP stands with and officially endorses the #BAmazon Workers unionization movement and we urge Greens and people everywhere to do the same and to proudly JOIN THESE NATIONWIDE EVENTS as greens and fellow workers (or organize your own!) #OrganizeTheSouth
NATIONWIDE AMAZON UNION SOLIDARITY EVENTS ON MARCH 20:

Arkansas
FAYETTEVILLE, AR
1:30pm Rally
Whole Foods, 3425 N College Ave, Fayetteville, AR 72703
Contact NWA Socialist Alternative at [email protected]
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Arizona
TUCSON, AZ
10am Picket
Whole Foods, 3360 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85716
Contact Pima Area Labor Federation at [email protected] or 520-548-9510
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California
BRISBANE, CA
9:30am Picket
Amazon Fresh, 455 Valley Dr, Brisbane, CA 94005
Contact Western Movement Assembly at [email protected] or 707-857-6455
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MONTEREY, CA
10am – 12pm Picket
Window on the Bay Free Speech Area, Del Monte Blvd across from Lake El Estero
Contact Progressive Democrats Chapter – Monterey Area at [email protected] or 831-402-9106
OAKLAND, CA
1pm Car Caravan & Rally
Gather at Lake Merritt BART Parking Lot, 8th & Oak Street, Oakland, CA
Caravan to several Oakland Amazon Hubs for 2:30pm ending rally at Snow Park (19th and Harrison)
Contact Support Amazon Workers – Bay Area at [email protected] or 510-813-4687
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SAN DIEGO, CA
2pm Picket & Rally
Whole Foods, 711 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92103
Contact Socialist Alternative San Diego at [email protected] or 619-346-2156
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA
10am Picket & Speak-Out
7th & Berry Street, San Francisco, CA
Contact United Front Committee for a Labor Party at [email protected] or 415-533-5642
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Canada
TORONTO
11am – 3pm Informational Picket, Speakers at 2pm
Whole Foods, 81 Avenue Rd, Toronto
Contact Toronto – Democratic Socialists of Canada at [email protected]
Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
12pm Picket
Whole Foods, 7635 N Academy Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80920
Contact Colorado Springs Local Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America at [email protected]
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District of Columbia
WASHINGTON, DC
3pm Rally
Whole Foods, 1440 P St NW, Washington, DC
Contact Progressive Labor Party at [email protected] or 202-253-4880
Georgia
ATLANTA, GA
12pm Rally
Gather at the intersection of N. Commerce and Camp Creek Parkway (across from Camp Creek Mall), East Point, GA
Initiated by ATL Amazon Workers Solidarity Network, Atlanta-N. Georgia Labor Council, Atlanta Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Contact ATL Amazon Workers Solidarity Network at [email protected]
Idaho
NAMPA, ID
10am Car Caravan
BOI2 Amazon Fulfillment Center, 5319 E Franklin Rd, Nampa, ID 83687
Contact Nampa Education Association at [email protected] or 208-559-3883
Illinois
CHICAGO, IL
1pm Rally & March
Federal Plaza, S. Dearborn St, Chicago, IL
Contact Chicago Labor Solidarity at [email protected]
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Maryland
BALTIMORE, MD
2pm Rally at City Hall & March to Whole Foods
Gather at City Hall, 100 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
Contact Baltimore Maryland Amazon Workers for Justice & People’s Power Assembly – Baltimore at [email protected] or 410-218-4835
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Massachusetts
BOSTON, MA
12pm Rally
Whole Foods, 348 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA
Contact Boston Socialist Alternative at [email protected] or 781-708-3858
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GREENFIELD, MA
10am Gathering
Greenfield Common
Contact Patrick Falvey at [email protected] or 413-824-0401
HADLEY, MA
11am Standout
Whole Foods, 327 Russel St, Hadley, MA 01035
Co-sponsors: Latin America Solidarity Coalition WMASS, CODEPINK WMASS, Mass Jobs with Justice, Western Mass Area Labor Federation
Contact Latin America Solidarity Coalition WMASS at [email protected]
Michigan
ANN ARBOR, MI
1pm Picket
Whole Foods, 3135 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Contact Coalition for Workers Rights at [email protected] or 734-662-6036
LANSING, MI
*March 17* 11am Rally for unemployment extension and solidarity with Amazon workers
State Capitol Building, 100 N. Capitol Ave, Lansing, MI 48933
Contact IATSE Local 26 at [email protected]
New Jersey
EDISON, NJ
4pm Rally
Amazon Fulfillment Center (LGA9), 2170 NJ-27, Edison, NJ 08817
Contact Central Jersey Socialists at [email protected] or 908-938-8756
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NEWARK, NJ
2pm Rally
Whole Foods, 633 Broad Street, Newark, NJ
Contact Peoples Party New Jersey at [email protected] or 973-487-8218
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TEANECK, NJ
*March 17* 4pm Vigil
Teaneck National Guard Armory, 1799 Teaneck Rd. (Gather at SE corner of Teaneck Rd & Liberty Rd), Teaneck, NJ 07666
Contact Teaneck Peace Vigil and Veterans for Peace Chapter 021 (Northern New Jersey) at [email protected] or 201-388-1684
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New York
HARLEM, NY
2pm Demonstration
Whole Foods, 125th St & Malcolm X Blvd, Harlem, NY
Contact December 12th Movement (718-398-1766), NY Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (646-523-8484), or Workers Assembly Against Racism ([email protected] or 646-470-4667/917-825-2302)
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BROOKLYN, NY
12pm Rally
Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Contact Socialist Alternative at [email protected] or 347-457-6069
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North Carolina
DURHAM, NC
1pm Rally
Meet at 1pm and Park at 2945 S. Miami Blvd Shopping Center, Durham, NC
1:30pm – Rally at 1805 TW Alexander Dr, Durham, NC
Contact Dante Strobino at [email protected] or 919-539-1051
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KERNERSVILLE, NC
5:30pm Rally
Amazon Warehouse, 1656 Old Greensboro Rd, Kernersville, NC 27284
Contact Winston-Salem DSA at [email protected] or 734-709-3411
Ohio
CINCINNATI, OH
3pm Picket
241 Calhoun St, Clifton, OH
Contact Cincinnati Socialist Alternative at [email protected]
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CLEVELAND, OH
12pm Picket
Across from Amazon Facility, Gather at Euclid Transit Center, 23900 St. Clair Ave, Euclid, OH 44132
Contact Support Alabama Amazon Workers – Cleveland at [email protected] or 216-534-6435
COLUMBUS, OH
1pm Rally
Amazon Locker, 2114 N High St, Columbus, OH
Contact Columbus Socialist Alternative at [email protected]
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Oregon
PORTLAND, OR
1pm Picket & Rally
Whole Foods
Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, PA
2pm Rally & March
Morgan Lewis, 1701 Market St, Philadelphia, PA
Contact Scott Williams at [email protected] or 919-794-1429
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PITTSBURGH, PA
12pm Picket
Whole Foods, 5880 Centre Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Contact New Afrikan Workers Union at [email protected] or 412-606-0059
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South Carolina
CHARLESTON, SC
1pm – 2pm Rally
Whole Foods, 1125 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, SC 29407
Contact Charleston Alliance for Fair Employment at 843-830-4471 or [email protected]
COLUMBIA, SC
4pm Rally
Whole Foods, 702 Cross Hill Road, Columbia, SC 29205
Contact Lawrence Moore at 803-238-0331 or [email protected]
Texas
DALLAS, TX
1pm Rally
1301 Chalk Hill Road, Dallas, TX
Contact North Texas Socialist Alternative at [email protected] or 774-264-1364
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HOUSTON, TX
1pm Rally & Picket
Amazon Delivery Station, S Lockwood and Munger St, Houston, Texas 77019
Contact Socialist Alternative Houston at [email protected] or 281-635-5286
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HOUSTON, TX
*Sun, March 21* 12pm Picket
Whole Foods, 701 Waugh Drive, Houston, Texas 77019
Contact Workers World Party – Houston at [email protected] or 713-503-2633
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SAN ANTONIO, TX
12pm Picket
Whole Foods @ the Quarry, 255 E Basse Rd, San Antonio, Texas
Contact Teresa Gutierrez at [email protected]
Washington
SEATTLE, WA
2pm Rally & March
Amazon Spheres (Amazon’s Headquarters), 211 7th Ave, Seattle, WA
Contact Socialist Democratic Socialists of America at [email protected]
FB event
More pictures from #BAmazon solidarity actions across the country here: https://southernworker.org/amazon/
Reference Articles:
https://www.archyde.com/how-much-money-jeff-bezos-makes-per-minute-hour-and-day/
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