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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER

December 2025

In This Issue:

  • 🎁 The holidays are a huge danger for Amazon workers
  • 🏡 Housing justice workshop
  • 📹 City Council Public Safety Committee approves continued surveillance
  • 🤝 Nancy Jamison Fund
  • ✊ Vista City Council affirms our right to due process

    • Billionaires will always stand on the side that makes them the most money. They will stop at nothing to distract, divide, and suppress anything that gets in their way.

    Unless you’re ultra wealthy or fight for their interests, you are on the side of the working class and most people in the world. Our people are community-oriented, honorable, bold and we have a legacy of fighting for a better world. This newsletter highlights some of the work members of the CPI community like you are doing to carry this fight forward.

    HOLIDAY QUOTAS ENDANGER AMAZON WORKERS

    Amazon has a long, very public history of taking the side of profit over the safety and dignity of workers. A US Senate report found that the injury rates from Prime Day, Black Friday, and the holiday season may be as high as 10x the national average. Half of Amazon’s workforce experiences an injury during these periods. Amazon gets its purchases to you faster and faster each year by coercing workers into fulfilling dangerous quotas. 

    Instead of buying wrapping paper from Amazon, check out this video of CPI’s Executive Director Dr. Kyra Greene on a podcast with local and national labor leaders. The clip begins with Chris Smalls, founder of the Amazon Labor Union, talking about Amazon’s role in surveillance, injury rates, and the military. 

    HOUSING JUSTICE WORKSHOP

    Every person should have safe, affordable housing. Unfortunately, too many people see housing as a way to make excessive profit off the backs of their neighbors. It’s hard being a tenant in this economy, but you may have more rights than you think.

    On Tuesday, December 9th, CPI will be collaborating with the Legal Aid Society of San Diego to hold a workshop about evictions, rent increases, and how you can protect yourself.

    Register here to attend!

    CITY TO VOTE ON YOUR PRIVACY

    Despite outcry from San Diegans, the following San Diego City Council Public Safety Committee members voted unanimously to continue using Flock Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs):

  • Councilmember Marni Von Wilpert, Chair
  • Councilmember Raul Campillo, Vice Chair
  • Councilmember Jennifer Campbell
  • Councilmember Stephen Whitburn

    • The program hid a year-long data breach from the public and its use has been opposed by local citizen advisory boards as well as the California State Attorney General. States all over the country have started banning or de-authorizing this technology. But in San Diego, mayor Todd Gloria has fiercely defended this program rather than his own constituents, even after our privacy and due process has been violated. Amazon is one of the worst offenders in the matter of surveillance and data sharing, and they just partnered with Flock to share data from Ring cameras with local law enforcement. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most commonly-used cloud platform by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is hosting the Palantir-designed system used by ICE to track and target people for deportation. Without the power of AWS, ICE and Flock would not be able to track and target individuals at their current scale. The San Diego City Council will be voting on the continued use of ALPRs on December 9th at 2pm. We will need to make it clear that a vote in favor of continuing ALPRs puts our safety and civil rights at risk. 📝 Tell City Council to shut down Flock surveillance tech here: Submit e-comment Agenda Item: 331 Select Oppose

    VISTA CITY COUNCIL DUE PROCESS

    Even though the proposal faced strong opposition from Vista Mayor John Franklin and Councilman Jeff Fox, the Vista City Council voted 3-2 to pass the Community Safety and Due Process Resolution. Massive crowds of supporters of the resolution organized Vista residents, securing this victory and showing that people power beats institutional power.

    The proposal included four items:

  • Vista will actively disseminate “Know Your Rights” information and will create a web page on the city’s official website detailing information.
  • Law enforcement personnel will be prohibited from “immigration enforcement” in non-public areas of City-owned or City-controlled properties without a judicial warrant.
  • Future Vista City contracts will need to include clauses prohibiting contractors from disclosing sensitive, personal, or non-public information to federal immigration enforcement agencies.
  • Sensitive or personal data collected by the City will not be shared with immigration enforcement agencies, directly or indirectly.

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