# How fighting Amazon made Chris Smalls a celebrity: 'My life changed' Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/stateside-with-kai-and-carter-7845609/how-fighting-amazon-made-chris-smalls-a-celebrity-my-life-changed Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/stateside-with-kai-and-carter-7845609/how-fighting-amazon-made-chris-smalls-a-celebrity-my-life-changed.md Podcast: [Stateside with Kai and Carter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stateside-with-kai-and-carter-7845609) Published: 2026-06-08T21:01:32+00:00 Episode link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/stateside Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/69f1f631d7e73f5a692d1d3c/e/6a2720c0391fc46d1bb4f2e2/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/stateside-with-kai-and-carter-7845609/episodes/how-fighting-amazon-made-chris-smalls-a-celebrity-my-life-changed Duration seconds: 2341 ## Resource In 2022, Amazon workers at a fulfillment center in Staten Island made history by voting to form a union. Their leader was fired Amazon worker Chris Smalls, who became something of a celebrity within the labor movement. Smalls left the union amid internal tensions, and has gone on to become a freelance activist since. He speaks with Kai Wright about being arrested while protesting the Jeff Bezos-funded Met Gala, and why courting attention is an effective form of activism. Smalls’ new book  When the Revolution Comes  is out now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/stateside-with-kai-and-carter-7845609/episodes/how-fighting-amazon-made-chris-smalls-a-celebrity-my-life-changed/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/stateside-with-kai-and-carter-7845609/how-fighting-amazon-made-chris-smalls-a-celebrity-my-life-changed.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.