Amazon shareholders met by protesters, company cuts ties with ALEC
Show identification, prove that you own shares with proxy documentation, go through a metal detector and sign in. That was what people who wanted to get into the Amazon.com Inc. annual shareholders meeting Thursday at the Seattle Art Museum had to do.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gave a presentation and the company announced it was severing ties with the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a free-market lobbyist group that has gained attention for opposing the federal health care overhaul and most recently for its support of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. Many other corporations, including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Kraft have all pledged to stop supporting ALEC.
Protesters outside SAM attempted to deliver boxes of petitions signed by 511,160 people asking Amazon to stop supporting ALEC — after the company announced it was no longer supporting the organization. The protesters attempting to deliver the boxes to Amazon were stopped by police.
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