Activists staged protests denouncing rampant consumerism and ‘the social, environmental and fiscal damage’ Amazon helps create
French activists protesting Amazon, Black Friday and rampant consumerism, in Paris. Picture: AFP/PHILIPPE LOPEZ
Several dozen protesters gathered at dawn outside an Amazon headquarters building in the Clichy district of Paris and staged a sit-in outside the front gates. They held up a sign saying: “No to Amazon and its world”. According to social media posts from Attac, a group that campaigns for more democratic globalisation, there was also a sit-in outside an Amazon logistics centre near Lyon, in eastern France.
“The demonstrators and Attac are throwing around untrue allegations based on factual errors and are pointing the finger at Amazon for political ends,” it said.
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