For more than a decade, we’ve been producing ground-breaking research on Amazon’s monopoly power and calling for it to be broken up.
An increasing number of consumers are looking to eliminate Amazon from their lives, in part because of Jeff Bezos’s efforts to buy influence and put his thumb on the scale of American democracy. We’ve assembled a guide to alternate online shopping destinations, alongside a clear explanation of why folks should consider breaking up with Amazon.
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Our Building Local Power podcast hosts a conversation with Reverend Ryan Brown and Adam Stromme, two organizers with Amazon CAUSE who are working on unionizing Amazon’s SDU1 warehouse outside of Raleigh. Our conversation touches on the danger warehouse workers face, the challenges of organizing at Amazon in the South, and the way Amazon exploits systemic racism to impede worker organizing.
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The public is largely in the dark about how exactly Amazon makes its money. ILSR Co-Director Stacy Mitchell talked to Wisconsin Public Radio about how Amazon has kept its profits under wraps and what the lawsuit could mean for the company’s future.
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"A strong monopoly lawsuit deserves its day in court," says ILSR senior researcher and policy advocate, Ron Knox.
Stacy Mitchell joins David Sirota on Lever Time to dive into monopoly history and how antitrust action can break up the conglomerates.
Stacy Mitchell's rousing address to the 2024 Bioneers Conference arguing that the growing antimonopoly movement is our best hope at outrunning the forces of authoritarianism.
In The Atlantic, Stacy Mitchell writes about how Amazon has kept massive profits secret – and why the SEC must enforce corporate financial disclosure rules.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed suit against Amazon for monopolizing e-commerce in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. This explainer looks at why the...
How Amazon uses its monopoly power to extract extreme and rapidly growing fees from businesses on their site that have little choice to reach customers.
Local and federal policymakers have systematically structured tax policy in a way that deepens the concentration of corporate power, Stacy Mitchell and Susan Holmberg argue...
In splashy campaigns and lobbying at the Capitol, Amazon claims that it has “a mutually beneficial relationship” with the small businesses that depend on its...
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