Amazon tops a list of companies to ditch in support of immigrants’ human rights

This commentary originally appeared in Source NM.

Throughout the last year, the Amazon corporation has given American consumers plenty of reasons to question whether we should be using its products and services. The news is filled with horrible stories about Amazon’s treatment of their workers. The company has an astronomical carbon footprint. The billionaire CEO has so much superfluous income he was able to launch himself into the atmosphere in the midst of a global pandemic. 

One aspect of Amazon’s business that rarely makes the news is how richly it profits off of our government’s terrorization of immigrants. The Quaker organization American Friends Service Committee recently published a divestment list that listed 60 publicly traded companies that profit significantly off of the surveillance and criminalization of immigrant communities and the militarization of the border.

Amazon is at the top of that list.

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SpaceX boss Elon Musk suggests Starship will land human beings on moon ‘probably sooner’ than 2024

SpaceX manager Elon Musk sounded optimistic Saturday evening when questioned about the development of the company’s Starship lunar lander project for NASA.

The Twitter account “Everything Artemis” asked Musk no matter whether he expected to have Starship all set to land individuals on the moon by 2024.

“In all probability faster,” Musk replied just two minutes later on.

Previously Saturday, CNBC space reporter Michael Sheetz pointed out that NASA experienced compensated $300 million to SpaceX on July 30 toward Starship, representing the agency’s most current big allocation toward the project.

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Sheetz’s publish bundled a backlink to the federal USASpending.gov website, which paperwork government investing.

The web-site claimed that $439.6 million has so considerably been paid out to SpaceX for what’s regarded as to be a $3

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