{"id":56908,"date":"2026-05-04T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/56908\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:00:12","slug":"activists-leave-bottles-of-urine-at-the-met-to-protest-bezos-amazon-workers-lack-of-bathroom-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/56908\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists leave bottles of \u2018urine\u2019 at the Met to protest Bezos\u2019 Amazon workers\u2019 lack of bathroom breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

An activist group placed hundreds of bottles of urine inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest billionaire Jeff Bezo\u2019s treatment of Amazon workers, as he and wife Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos prepare to serve<\/a> as honorary co-chairs and lead donors of the 2026 Met Gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Everyone Hates Elon \u2014 a British political activist group to protest Elon Musk \u2014 placed nearly 300 miniature bottles of fake urine throughout the Met on Friday in reference to multiple employees at the Jeff Bezos-owned company claiming<\/a> they didn\u2019t get bathroom breaks, just days before the fashion extravaganza on the first Monday of May.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff Bezos’s company Amazon is literally being sued for forcing workers to urinate in bottles. Amazon avoids MILLIONS in tax and Bezos is one of the world’s richest men. The Met Museum is taking the PISS by having Jeff honoured as their Gala host. When they celebrate Trump\u2019s billionaires, let\u2019s ridicule them instead \ud83d\udc8b\u201d the group wrote in an Instagram post about the stunt.<\/p>\n

Each of the small bottles of face urine has a picture of Bezos\u2019 face and reads: \u201cBoycott the Bezos Met Gala\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bezos\u2019 company, which made him a billionaire, has long been criticized for its demand on workers, including injuries and health issues suffered by employees aiming to meet deadlines for fast deliveries. In 2024, Amazon workers in India\u2019s Manesar warehouse claimed they had<\/a> to pledge that they wouldn\u2019t take any breaks until they met their targets.<\/p>\n

Near the Metropolitan Museum<\/a> in New York City, Everyone Hates Elon, which describes itself as anti-billionaire, has also put up posters that read: \u201cBezos Met Gala: Brought to you by the firm that powers ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Activist<\/p>\n

Activist group Everyone Hates Elon left 300 bottles of fake urine in the Met Museum (Getty Images \/ Everyone Hates Elon)<\/p>\n

In addition, critics have accused Bezos \u2014 who recently spent millions on a movie by First Lady Melania Trump via his Amazon MGM film studios<\/a> \u2014 of buying influence at the prestigious fashion ball.<\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted the Met, Bezos and Everyone Hates Elon for comment.<\/p>\n

Wintour has attempted to quell the backlash over the couple\u2019s involvement, telling CNN in November: \u201cI think Lauren is going to be a wonderful asset to the museum and to the event. I\u2019m very grateful for her incredible generosity, and she\u2019s a great lover of costume and obviously of fashion, so we\u2019re thrilled she\u2019s part of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s sponsorship of the Met Gala breaks precedent of having a legacy fashion house as the primary sponsor.<\/p>\n

\"Everybody<\/p>\n

Everybody Hates Elon left the bottles in various spots inside the Met (Everybody Hates Elon)<\/p>\n

Amid the protests and call for a boycott, multiple celebrities are skipping out on the Met Gala, including Zendaya and Meryl Streep. Elle reported Friday<\/a> that Zendaya will miss the New York City ceremony to take a break from the spotlight after doing two near-simultaneous press tours for The Drama and Euphoria season three.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reported this week that Meryl Streep was rumored to have turned down a co-chair role at the Met Gala because of Bezos and Sanchez\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n

\"Everyone<\/p>\n

Everyone Hates Elon has started a campaign to boycot this year\u2019s Met Gala (Reuters)<\/p>\n

Her representative told The Independent: \u201cMeryl has been invited to the Met Gala for many years but has never attended. While she appreciates Vogue, Anna, and her incredible imagination and stamina, it has never quite been her scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Streep can currently be seen playing Miranda Priestly \u2014 a character inspired by longtime Met Gala chair and Vogue editor Anna Wintour \u2014 in The Devil Wears Prada 2, and appears on the May 2026 Vogue cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An activist group placed hundreds of bottles of urine inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest billionaire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[1923,205,202,29694,734,12533,7541,34299,34298],"class_list":{"0":"post-56908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jeff-bezos","8":"tag-activist-group","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-everyone-hates-elon","12":"tag-jeff-bezos","13":"tag-lauren-sanchez-bezos","14":"tag-met-gala","15":"tag-miniature-bottles","16":"tag-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116518323707593945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}