Wired USA - 12.2019

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HOW A GROUP OF SOMALIS BECAME LEADERS IN THE FIGHT TO CHANGE A TECH BEHEMOTH. The immigrants who took on Amazon by Jessica Brude ...

department. There, another crew of work- ers boxed orders, reportedly at a rate of 230 per hour, sending them off in cardboard c ...

Nimo Omar ...

to go to the bathroom just so that we could pray.” The East African community, she said, demanded better. “Amazon doesn’t work i ...

Some 52,000 people in Minnesota report Somali ancestry. ations behind the scenes alongside workers was a 23-year-old college stu ...

Lives Matter activists took to social media, organizing a march to the city’s Fourth Precinct police station under the hashtag j ...

to help wrangle victories for employees at fast-food restaurants and Target stores and to organize all kinds of people. Given th ...

TV. THE grievance that first made workers truly interested in talking to Omar was a rel- atively small one. In October, Amazon a ...

ing but unsafe. People were getting hurt in the course of meeting their quotas. The US Occupational Safety and Health Adminis- t ...

with Amazon under the headline “Somali Workers in Minnesota Force Amazon to Negotiate.” The story underscored how rare the Minne ...

pany with almost unlimited resources for legal fights, public relations campaigns, and strategic planning. But in the church whe ...

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e’ll see the new Star Wars movie. Of course we’ll see it. Dark Rey! Folding dual-bladed lightsabers! More porgs (or not)! But he ...

EVERY- \BODY LOVES THE EXPANDED UNIVERSE Words by Meghan Herbst 7 2 Illustrations by Violet Reed 0 ...

' ANNAMARIE MCINTOSH IS coming undone. People in comic-book tees are rushing past her, lit up by too-bright fluorescents. She’s ...

been involved, both making costumes and wearing them. Options, however, have never been wide-ranging. For every Harley Quinn, th ...

 The 12,000 members of the 501st Legion—the cosplay organization that also calls itself Vader’s Fist—spend about 200,000 hours ...

THE NERDIEST PLACE  The soon-to-open Rise of the Resistance ride at Galaxy’s Edge will be at least 15 minutes long. ON EARTH BY ...