dear Americans very concerned and angry about the concentration camps your government is running:
you should be angry, you should be furious, you should do everything and anything you can to shut them down.
but here in Australia, we’ve had concentration camps for refugees for nearly 25 years. we’ve protested and petitioned and yelled, but the government was ‘clever’ and put them offshore, away from the mainland where we can’t reach them, can’t storm them. then they banned journalists from going. then they banned doctors.
the only time mainstream news tends to report on the “offshore detention centres” is when yet another group of children try to commit suicide.
yes, the Australian government has concentration camps for people fleeing warzones, and the people in those camps are tortured so bad that the children try to kill themselves.
Americans, I hope you manage to close your governments camps, by law or by force. maybe when you’re done, you can turn your attention to us? we could use some loud international outrage from a western ally, the government might care. the public has spent 20 years trying and failing.
non-Australians, please spread this information. I don’t think many people know internationally, except the island nations we pay to host our camps and keep quiet.
and tomorrow - the strikes are happening on the 16th as well
i know we can all go two days without worshipping jeff bezos so please don’t cross the picket line.
If you need it from Amazon and still want to support them, believe me, it will still be there next week, next month, probably even next year. Help the workers - we would want them to help us if we were striking.
please just wait the two days. do it for your fellow workers. do it as an act of class solidarity. show amazon workers they’re important to you. show amazon workers you stand with them.
in regards to the confusion surrounding this, workers at amazon are striking. amazon workers have organized this event. we who do not work for amazon are standing in solidarity with the striking workers by not using amazons products while they strike.
it’s one of the few things you can actually do to show your support so please, do this one trivial thing. just avoid amazon products in the name of supporting our fellow workers.
