WATCH: Immigrant employees camp outdoors Bezos’ NYC condo as a part of AOC-sponsored marketing campaign to tax billionaires

Dozens of immigrant employees have begun a joint 24-hour quick and sleep-out outdoors billionaire Jeff Bezos’ $ 16 million penthouse in Manhattan, to foyer New York authorities to tax the rich to assist the pandemic-affected poor.

Excessive-profile Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is amongst these behind a marketing campaign to push New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to additional tax the mega-rich within the state and use the income generated to assist employees in want of help in the course of the pandemic. 

Eyewitness footage from the scene reveals the employees, joined by metropolis council members, arrange camp on Fifth Avenue close to the Amazon-owner’s condo.

ARRIVING at Jeff Bezos’s new penthouse, immigrant NYers excluded from ANY reduction will proceed their quick and sleep out right here tonight to demand @NYGovCuomo tax billionaires like Bezos and #FundExcludedWorkers. pic.twitter.com/GybegKTlOd

— Daniel Altschuler 🦋 (@altochulo) July 17, 2020

Surrounding bldg the place Jeff Bezos has a luxurious dwelling… Employees blocked from unemployment reduction. Households in month 5: NO revenue, homelessness quick approaching. (Notice the backdrop of luxurious linens with all the nice and cozy house on the planet).@NYGovCuomo it’s time to #FundExcludedWorkers pic.twitter.com/YjQZggUJgg

— Deborah Axt 🦋 (@DebAxt) July 17, 2020

Following the sleep-out protest, a whole lot are anticipated to take part in a “march on billionaires” that can finish at Cuomo’s Manhattan workplace on Friday.

The AOC-sponsored invoice is geared toward taxing the unrealized capital good points of the state’s 119 billionaires to assist make up for among the state’s $ 13 billion finances shortfall and liberate funds to assist these most-impacted by the pandemic. 

It is only one of three ‘Robin Hood’ payments to take from the wealthy and provides to the poor to be offered in a uncommon July sitting of the state legislature on Monday. 

Cuomo and his finances director, Robert Mujica, stated such measures would drive out the town and the state’s rich and severely influence the tax base. New York already has among the many highest tax charges for the rich, with the highest two % of excessive earners choosing up half of the state’s tax legal responsibility.

Taking place now: 150+ fasting Excluded employees and allies sleeping outdoors the $ 100 million manhattan penthouse of Jeff Bezos demanding to #MakeBillionairesPay to #FundExcludedWorkers pic.twitter.com/2QvbGYhD1Q

— New York Communities for Change (@nychange) July 17, 2020

Rosa & I are sleeping outdoors Jeff Bezos’ pad w/ @jessicaramos @CnDelarosa @RJackson_NYC @MaketheRoadNY & immigrant households excluded from COVID reduction demanding to #MakeBillionairesPay to #FundExcludedWorkers. These households don’t want a penthouse. Simply sufficient to afford a house. pic.twitter.com/1ISqDHqSll

— Brad Lander (@bradlander) July 17, 2020

Moreover, AOC herself was one of many key figures behind the scuttling of Amazon’s plans to construct considered one of its headquarters in Queens, which might seemingly have offered pandemic-proof employment, given how a lot the corporate has profited in the course of the coronavirus period.

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Cuomo and Ocasio-Cortez have sparred not too long ago, with the Bronx firebrand claiming that crime has risen within the metropolis as persons are unable to pay their lease and are thus scared of eviction. Cuomo responded by reminding her of the state’s moratorium on evictions in the course of the pandemic. 

New York was at one time the epicenter of the pandemic in each the US and the broader world and, on the time of writing, has recorded 430,000 instances, 185,000 of that are nonetheless energetic, and over 32,500 deaths.

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