Prime Day, Amazon’s yearly deal-hawking hoopla for its swindled subscribers, begins on June 21.

And there’s never been a better occasion to cancel your Prime membership and boycott Amazon and all its subsidiaries (which include AbeBooks, Amazon Studios, Audible, Book Depository, ComiXology, Goodreads, IMDb, Twitch, Whole Foods, Zappos, and dozens more).

As you can tell from the list above, Amazon owns a huge number of companies whose products and services millions use every single day.

. . . whether they’re walking to work in their Zappos shoes with an Audible audiobook in their ears, or watching streams on Twitch while scarfing down premium Whole Foods goodies, or binging Amazon Studios–produced TV shows while looking up the name of “that guy who looks like that other guy” on IMDb. And that’s true even when you leave Amazon itself out of the tally.

The point, in short, is not just that megacorporations are taking over the world, but that one monolithic corporation named Amazon controls an ever-increasing share of our mental environment.

Think that sounds exaggerated? Think again.

Amazon’s dominance is funded by an illegal price-rigging racket that disguises the costs of its “free shipping” promise to Prime members. As a result, it has oodles of capital to spend on ventures well beyond its e-commerce perview. (Remember when all it sold was books?)

Today, Amazon has its finger in cloud computing, streaming, electronics, home security, A.I., surveillance — and yes, even the defense industry. (Oh, and did I mention that it’s now a bank, too?) As one of the ten biggest corporations on the planet, it’s power to influence you is therefore enormous. It’s meddling in areas of your life you’re not even aware of.

With all this, what are the chances that Amazon has your best interest at heart? Ask yourself: Are you being empowered — or exploited?

Don’t be naive — after all, we’re talking about the same company that is set on hanging workers out to dry, chucking the environment in the bin, forcing you to foot its tax bill, and distorting democracy itself. And it’s no friend of whistleblowers, either.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Amazon’s fate lies in one person’s hands . . . one person with the power to make or break the gargantuan tech tyrant, by either shopping from it — or dropping it altogether.

And that person is you.

We’ve long called for unswooshing the swoosh. This Prime Day, ditch your membership and boycott the mother of all tech-corp crooks (and every one of her brats).

It’s time to #unprime Prime — not just for one day, but for good.

For two decades Purdue Pharma peddled the falsehood that OxyContin, the painkiller at the heart of the deadly opioid epidemic, was safe and non-addictive.

“More people in the United States died from overdoses involving opioids in 2017,” in Nature’s account, ”than from HIV- or AIDS-related illnesses at the peak of the AIDS epidemic.”

“Nearly 500,000 [Americans] died from overdoses involving any opioid, including prescription and illicit opioids, from 1999-2019,” according to the CDC.

Those hundreds of thousands of deaths were fueled in large part by Purdue’s lie-fed pushing of OxyContin on doctors and patients alike. The company — which is owned by the Sacklers, one of the richest families in the U.S. — made tens of billions in the meantime.

While further waves of opioid-overdose deaths continue to surge, more than 600,000 claimants are seeking justice. The Sacklers have agreed to give up ownership of Purdue and contribute $4.5 billion to a collective settlement with the claimants.

But the terms of the settlement are far from fair. “Besides protecting the company from further legal action over opioids, the plan includes a blanket release from civil lawsuits for Purdue’s owners, members of the billionaire Sackler family,” as reported by The New York Times.

This is a blatant miscarriage of justice. The calously criminal Sackler family simply cannot be absolved from further legal responsibility in exchange for cash. That’s bald-faced bribery — and a gargantuan insult to the dead and grieving.

For the hundreds of thousands of lives they ruined, there’s only one place for the Sacklers.

And that’s behind bars — for life.

Our world is being carved into two spheres of influence. For now, those spheres are limited merely to economic competition. But as the tension mounts, there is a real possibility that the China-vs-U.S. face-off could spill over into an all-out war — a global fight for worldwide hegemony — maybe even World War 3.

We must upend this disastrous dichotomy with a fresh option: The rise of a Third Force . . . a new paradigm in which we — not the billionaires, not the corporations, not even our political leaders, but we the people — start calling the shots from below.

If we’re going to work our way out of the existential bind we’re in as a species, the hierarchical, top-down power structures that have ruled the world for thousands of years have to collapse. With the most powerful activist tool ever invented in the palms of our hands, we in the streets have to take charge.

We’ve got the tools. We’ve got the metamemes. All we need are the numbers.

Let’s come together and change the tune of history!

Are you ready?!