ONT6 Feb 26 Update

Another Open Letter:

This is an open letter from an Amazon.com tier 1 Associate who works at the Ontario 6 Fulfillment Center in Moreno Valley, California. My name is Mark Oglesby (login: moglesby) and I am on the Committee to Unionize the Ontario 6 Fulfillment Center which will happen sooner or later and so I believe that we cannot, we will not be stopped! And it is concerning this subject that I would like to address my fellow Associates, Process Assistants, Area Managers, Operations managers, Senior Operations Managers, General Manager and all other Amazon.com operatives around the globe: For your approval or not!

Also, I wish to address anyone who believes or wishes to believe that people have a fundamental right to happiness. Furthermore, it is my utmost belief that a person cannot, will not experience happiness if they are cold or hungry, in need of shelter or clothing, desiring company, love and companionship; in need of those basic requirements to sustain a healthy if not happy existence.

In which case, it will become necessary that people form a common front in order to gain those things which make life healthy, happy and wise; reasonable to suggest that not matter our background, place of birth, nationality, color of ones skin, religion, creed, sexual preference or any other thing which might cause one to mistrust another must be stricken from our minds and hearts. We stand together to make our demands! Not our requests! But our demands!

Here there is a world apart, unlike everything else, with laws of its own, its own dress, its own manners and customs, and here is the house of the living dead- life as elsewhere and a people apart.

–Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We cannot be a people apart or we will be condemned to an existence of the living dead! We cannot be apart or we will be subject to laws, rules, regulations and all those clothing’s, manners and customs which separate us from one another; which tear at the very fabric of our natures which shout for unity; cry for justice! Life is not elsewhere as it is here in our need to share with one another!

And share with one another we must as we fight; as we struggle to maintain our hope in a better world, a brighter tomorrow that is not divided by those who would isolate one from the other as more easily to control the individual alienated from the collective. We stand together demanding our right to life, liberty and happiness! We rally one another to a cause whereas we believe that all are entitled to the wondrous elements of life in the here and now!

Therefore I shout:

AWAKEN!

We shall awaken from the darkness of ignorance as the call for action goes forth! Please, be ready for confrontation as those who are awaken seek greater advancement if not development in what happens to them in all facets of life: The workplace, government, civil if not human rights, our own communities; those places when and wherever we gather together as individuals yet communally committed to one another in hope and its aspirations.

In the scales of justice, we seek a greater voice in all things which transpire in our lives, once again; in the workplace, government, civil if not human rights; our own communities where we share with everyone the desire to be free while having a voice to cry out in unison: Awaken!

Please than, allow me to share with you a song from the Civil Rights Movement where the legendary American folk singer, civil rights activist, environmental warrior, Union agitator Pete Seeger cried out for freedom from oppression for all peoples everywhere!

Paul and Silas bound in jail

Had no money for to go their bail