Amazon's Potter's Field of Blood, Profits, and Essential Dildos

"Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus continues to rise.

Workers in hazmat outfits were seen stacking wooden coffins in deep trenches in Hart Island.

Officials say burials are being ramped up at site, which has long been used for people with no next-of-kin or families who cannot afford a funeral."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52241221

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"A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or indigent people. "Potter's field" is of Biblical origin, referring to Akeldama (meaning field of blood in Aramaic), stated to have been purchased, with the coins that had been paid to Judas Iscariot for his identification of Jesus, after Judas' suicide, by the high priests of Jerusalem.

The priests are stated to have acquired it for the burial of strangers, criminals, and the poor, the coins paid to Judas being considered blood money.

 Prior to Akeldama's use as a burial ground, it had been a site where potters collected high-quality, deeply red clay for the production of ceramics, thus the name potters' field."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter%27s_field


"Madison Square Park, Washington Square Park and Bryant Park in New York City originated as potter's fields.

The city's current potter's field, and one of the largest cemeteries in the United States, with at least 800,000 burials, is on Hart Island"

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"Christian tradition connects the place with Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. There are two accounts of his death.

The Gospel of Matthew describes how Judas returned the money to the Temple authorities before hanging himself. Deeming it as blood money, and therefore illegal to put into their treasury, they used it instead to buy a field as a burial ground for foreigners: thus the place gained the name "the Field of Blood" (Matthew 27:7, and possibly with allusions to Zechariah 11:12–13 and Jeremiah 18:2–3 and Jeremiah 32:6–15).

According to the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 1:18–19) Judas "acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

 This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is, 'Field of Blood.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akeldama

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"T-Bone Slim, the labor activist, songwriter, and Wobbly, was buried on Hart Island after his body was found floating in the Hudson River"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island_(Bronx)


"Following his death, T-Bone Slim became a source of inspiration for the emerging American surrealist movement, and during the 1960s there was renewed interest in his songs when they were sung by activists during the Civil Rights Movement.

 In an interview Noam Chomsky cited T-Bone Slim as one of his favorite Wobbly singers.

A number of T-Bone Slim's songs can be found in the Little Red Songbook. Among the best known are The Popular Wobbly, Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life, and The Lumberjack's Prayer.

First published by the IWW in 1909, the songbook has never gone out of print. The IWW brought out the 38th edition in 2010  and the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company has other works by T-Bone Slim in its catalog."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Slim

QUOTES:

"Wherever you find injustice, the proper form of politeness is attack." 

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""Always keep yourself fit to serve mankind. 

Watch yourself, do not watch the boss. Never exhaust yourself — there is nothing more disgusting than a man staggering home from work 'dog-tired', helplessly falling into a chair to have his child remove his shoes; then grabbing a hasty feverish supper; saying good-night to his family and rolling into bed half-washed, to repeat the same thing three hundred and twelve times per year, or until sickness puts a stop to his mad career." 

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"Tear Gas: the most effective agent used by employers to persuade their employees that the interests of capital and labor are identical."

(“It’s an atmosphere of fear — huge fear right now,” Luismi Ruiz, who has worked for an Amazon facility in Spain since November 2012, told the Washington Post. He said that the company was spraying disinfectant in the warehouse and staggering breaks to keep people away from each other, but it’s not enough."

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-amazon-workers-say-theyre-not-protected-from-covid-19-20200317-m54ykiiskra2dfcnbmppatwzum-story.html


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"Only the poor break laws—the rich evade them"

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"several Amazon workers who work at various facilities across the nation say they're putting their lives at risk to fulfill orders that are far from "essential."

"We're creating more disaster than we're helping.

There's nothing on our truck that is essential," Kathy Knight, a driver lead for Amazon in Pennsylvania, told Business Insider.

 "I mean, my life is essential — but there's nothing else on that truck that is."

"Amazon continues to ship out various non-essential items, including nipple clamps, dollhouses, and home hand spas"

"In one day, I had a home hand spa, glittery girl dolls, a dollhouse, Xbox games, and racecar tracks," the 47-year-old told Business Insider,"


https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sends-sex-toys-dolls-despite-pledge-ship-essential-goods-2020-4