Amazon is funding white supremacist hate. Baby onesies featuring a burning cross, swastika necklaces, “costumes” depicting a black man being lynched, and t-shirts funding the violent hate group the Proud Boys have all recently been sold by Amazon.

A report by the Action Center on Race and the Economy and the Partnership for Working Families found that despite its stated policies, Amazon enables those who traffic in hate by allowing the sale of hate symbols and imagery on the site, including confederate, anti-Black, Nazi and fascist imagery — even in products that are targeted toward children. And as a publisher of media in ebook, print book and streaming formats, Amazon facilitates the spread of hate ideologies including white supremacy, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and homophobia. Amazon provides a platform for openly racist writers, musicians and activists who advocate for violence against Black people, Muslims, Jewish people and LGBTQ people.

In a moment when organized hate groups are gaining members, power, and carrying out devastating real world violence, Amazon enables these people and groups to spread their ideas and generate resources to support their operations. Amazon must take a public stand against this hate and violence, and stop enabling others to profit from racism.

Sign the Petition: Tell Amazon, stop doing business with racist hate groups!

Here is the Petition:

Dear Mr. Bezos,

While incidents of violence by individuals associated with white nationalist hate groups are on the rise, Amazon continues to be a platform for the celebration of ideologies that promote violence against black people, communities of color, LGBTQ people, women, Muslims and Jewish people. Right now, Amazon is a safe haven for those who seek to spread and profit from these hateful ideas.

A report released by the Action Center on Race and the Economy and the Partnership for Working Families this summer found that your company enables the spread of violent ideologies by allowing the sale of hate symbols and imagery on the site, including confederate and anti-Black imagery, Nazi and fascist imagery and the newly adopted imagery of the modern white nationalist movement. Some of these products are even targeted toward children. Additionally, white power and "hatecore" music is available on Amazon’s streaming platform, hate literature is available in Kindle ebooks, known hate groups are using Amazon’s web content delivery network, and hate groups are using Amazon Pay to fundraise on their own sites.

Serving as a platform for hate is dangerous and unacceptable. Amazon must take a public stand against this hate and violence, and take action to ensure that it is not profiting from hate or enabling others to profit from hate.

Amazon must:

• Take a clear public stand against hate movements and their ideologies and publicly pledge not to profit from hate.
• Develop more robust policies for all of its platforms in based on the the policies released by the "Change the Terms, Reducing Hate Online" coalition.
• Develop and resource transparent enforcement mechanisms to ensure that Amazon and its users and clients are adhering to its policies.
• Stop letting its platform be used to sell items featuring hate symbols.
• Destroy any merchandise displaying hate symbols currently in Amazon-controlled warehouses and distribution centers.
• Stop facilitating the publication and distribution of hate movement propaganda. This means that Amazon should:
• Stop providing web content delivery services to identified hate groups.
• Remove electronic books by racist propagandists and authors connected to hate groups from Kindle ebooks.
• Stop allowing hate literature to be published via Kindle Direct Publishing.
• Stop making white power and “hatecore” music available on its streaming platform.

Amazon has the responsibility to determine what it sells, publishes and helps to deliver online. Now is the time to make clear that Amazon does not support or condone the spread of white nationalist ideologies.

Now is the time to stop doing business with racist hate groups!

Sincerely,