Since June, the residents of Carver Road, an African-American working class community located in Haymarket, Virginia, have been involved in a struggle to save their homes from corporate giant Amazon and local utility companies. On the basis of eminent domain laws, the corporations are seeking to seize parts of the Carver Road community, formed by freed slaves in the 19th century, in order to build power lines connecting Amazon’s nearby Internet data centers.
On Saturday, residents and members of the community rallied near the data center’s planned construction site, waving banners denouncing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and chanting slogans such as “Power to the people, not Bezos!” and “NSA, CIA, go away!”
— source wsws.org 2017-08-22