Boycott Amazon

Trump's agenda of destruction is a direct and urgent threat to DC communities. We need to be using every tool available to us right now to bring this occupation to an end, and one of those tools is boycotts.

Consumer boycotts have already forced Elon Musk out of Trump’s inner circle. Now, as the occupation of DC intensifies, it's time to turn our attention to another billionaire who is both fueling and profiting off Trump's detention machine: Jeff Bezos.

Free DC is calling for a boycott of Amazon and all of its affiliated consumer brands. We won't shop at companies that profit off detention — including Amazon and its brands Whole Foods, Zappos, Audible, Ring and more. Sign the pledge below to let us know you’re joining the boycott.

More reasons to stop shopping at Amazon

• Amazon makes millions of dollars each year selling cloud computing services to ICE. In fact, ICE depends on Amazon to carry out its work.

• The company is also increasing our Pepco bills — Starting in July 2025, residential Pepco customers will be charged 18% more in supply charges each month due to “increasing demand for electricity by new, high-usage regional data centers.”[5]

• Amazon has stolen money from DC-area workers — In February 2025 Amazon paid a $3.95 million settlement for misleading DC consumers “by assuring them that 100% of tips would go to Amazon Flex delivery drivers when in fact much of the tips were diverted to reduce Amazon’s labor costs and increase profits.”[6]

• Discriminating East of the River — A lawsuit filed by the DC Attorney General in December 2024 alleges that Amazon has secretly excluded ZIP codes east of the Anacostia River from Prime delivery while continuing to charge 48,000 Prime members living there the full subscription price.[7]

• Price fixing that hurts local DC businesses — The DC Attorney General is currently suing Amazon over “its illegal control of online retail prices that hikes prices for consumers, kills innovation, and hurts small businesses.” An appeals court decided in August 2024 that the case can move forward.[8]

• Donating to politicians attacking Home Rule — Amazon and the Bezos family spent nearly $17 million on the 2024 election cycle. Together, more than two-thirds of Amazon and the Bezos’ PAC total spending went to Republicans.[9]

References

1 Hao, K. (2018, October 22). "Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown." MIT Technology Review. Available at https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/22/139639/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration-crackdown/. And: Haskins, C. (2022, September 28). "Google and Amazon ignore employee protests and plow ahead with deals involving the US military, ICE, and CBP." Business Insider. Available at https://www.businessinsider.com/google-amazon-quietly-contract-dod-ice-cbp-employee-protests-2022-9
2 Lapowsky, I. (2025, April 30). "Everything We Know So Far About Jeff Bezos’s Relationship With Donald Trump." Vanity Fair. Available at https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/jeff-bezos-relationship-with-donald-trump. And: Malone, C. (2025, May 12). "Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?" The New Yorker. Available at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/is-jeff-bezos-selling-out-the-washington-post
3 SMB Compass. (2022, June 15). "Everything Owned by Amazon." Available at https://www.smbcompass.com/everything-owned-by-amazon/
4 Mitchell, S. And LaVecchia, O. (2018, July 10). "Amazon’s Next Frontier: Your City’s Purchasing." Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Available at https://ilsr.org/articles/amazon-and-local-government-purchasing/
5 Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia. (2025, May 7). "Electricity Supply Rates for Pepco Customers to Increase Starting June 1, 2025." Available at https://dcpsc.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=9d309997-803c-42fb-a9aa-a6f67b4f39d5
6 Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. (2025, February 7). "AG Schwalb Secures $3.95 Million from Amazon to Resolve Lawsuit Over Stolen Tips Intended for Delivery Worker." Available at https://oag.dc.gov/release/ag-schwalb-secures-395-million-amazon-resolve
7 Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. (2024, December 4). "Attorney General Schwalb Sues Amazon for Secretly Excluding Ward 7 & 8 ZIP Codes from Prime Membership Delivery Benefits." Available at https://oag.dc.gov/release/attorney-general-schwalb-sues-amazon-secretly
8 Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. (2021, December 7). "AG Racine Opening Statement About His Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon for Senate Finance Subcommittee Hearing." Available at https://oag.dc.gov/release/ag-racine-opening-statement-about-his-antitrust. And: DC Attorney General. (2024, August 22). X user @DCAttorneyGen. Available at https://x.com/DCAttorneyGen/status/1826650107493974306.
9 United for Respect. (n.d.). "An analysis of Amazon and Bezos activity in the current political cycle." Available at https://united4respect.org/reports/amazon-political-spending-2024/.