An investigation of Amazon’s Project Blue has exposed its tech overlords’ (directors and officers) stealth campaign to build giant data plants with little to no environmental regulation.
When community and labor activists found out who was behind it and that it would threaten their ability to survive, they organized and stopped Amazon in its tracks. Tucson, Arizona’s City Council voted that it would not connect city water lines to a plant that Amazon was secretly trying to build. Nearly 200 data centers have already been constructed in bone dry Arizona.
CWA Local 7000 Vice President Desi Navarro spoke to Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer about how the union and the community helped organize to shut down Amazon’s stealth campaign to steal their water arguing that it would provide jobs.
Despite this major setback for Amazon, the company says it will continue trying to build the plants in the Pima County desert lands.
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Marcy Winograd, a volunteer organizer with CODEPINK, interviewed Faris Amer, a British-Palestinian in London working with the 1World1Body campaign to keep the Sumud Flotilla to Gaza in the news.
1World1Body is a global effort to direct the world’s eyes on the Sumud flotilla until the flotilla reaches Gaza and distributes its water and food to Gazans starving under Israel’s blockade. This is an important task, given that the Gaza Holocaust has dropped from the headlines and, by and large, corporate media (WashPo, NYT, LAT) is not covering the Samud Flotilla. Media coverage is important to protect the flotilla from the Israel military, which murdered previous flotilla members.
Earlier, Faris was part of a team of young activists behind the Countdown2Ceasefire campaign, which mobilized people across 60 countries to support an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To learn more about the 1World1Body campaign, visit countdown2ceasefire.com.
Use hashtags on social media: #1World1Body #
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Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal speaks with Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera about the Trump administration’s attack on an alleged drug-smuggling boat, which killed 11 people in international waters. Trump claimed without showing evidence that the boat was carrying narcotics from Venezuela to the United States and was operated by the gang Tren de Aragua. (Their full conversation can be found on The Grayzone YouTube channel.)
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We share Part I of the interview of Dr. Peter McCullough and collaborator and historian John Leake on the occasion of the publication of their newly released book Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality this past July. The book’s publisher, Tony Lyons of Skyhorse Publishing, interviews them.
And that concludes today’s edition of Capitalism, Race & Democracy. We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates who contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Steve Zeltzer, Ann Garrison, Polina Vasiliev, Marcy Winograd, and Thomas O’Rourke.
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Music:
Natalia Lafourcade, “Duerme Negrito”
Rebel Diaz, “Chicago Teacher”
Ali Primera, “America Latina Obrera”
Orquesta Popular San Bomba, “Cumbia Palestina”
