Activists stage fashion show before Met Gala in rebuke to Bezos and Amazon: ‘the people behind the smile’

Labor is Art gathered protesters in New York before gala in which billionaire Amazon founder and his wife are honorary chairs for their $10m donation Fashion’s Faustian pact: the high cost of Jeff Bezos’s Met Gala patronage Anti- Jeff Bezos /Amazon/ Met Gala protests got off early Tuesday in Manhattan with ... what else? A fashion show. Labor is Art, a group bringing together Amazon workers, their unions and supporters, staged a show on Little West 12th Street to emphasize that labor workers have the power to tell their own stories, and it is their labor that makes Amazon – and not the man who owns 8% of it. Continue reading...

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