{"id":9581,"date":"2012-11-24T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2012-11-24T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:51:50","slug":"black-friday-protests-at-wal-fart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/black-friday-protests-at-wal-fart\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday Protests at Wal-Fart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday, thousands of Wal-mart employees and supporters protested over hours, pay, benefits and working conditions.&#160; Those demonstrators deserved our support.&#160; Sadly, Wal-fart still enjoyed record sales.&#160; The reason for that is even more sad.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"24WAL-MART-PROTESTS\" border=\"0\" alt=\"24WAL-MART-PROTESTS\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/24WAL-MART-PROTESTS.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/>Hundreds of people &#8212; including some employees &#8212; have taken part in Black Friday demonstrations at Wal-Mart stores nationwide, protesting what they say is the retailer&#8217;s retaliation against speaking out for better pay, fair schedules and affordable health care. <\/p>\n<p>According to organizers from the union-backed group OUR Walmart, <strong>hundreds of workers and thousands of supporters rallied across 100 cities<\/strong>, including Landover Hills, Md., Miami, Oakland, Calif., Chicago, Danville, Ky., Dallas and Kenosha, Wis. <\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart pushed back, saying it knew of only a &quot;few dozen&quot; protests, and that most of the protesters were not its employees <\/p>\n<p>In one of the biggest protests, nine people were arrested outside of a Paramount, Calif., Wal-Mart store for failing to disperse, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department statement. An OUR Walmart spokesman said three of those arrested were Wal-Mart workers. Those arrested were to be released without bail, unless they had previous arrest warrants. <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s department said about 1,000 people arrived by bus and private vehicles to participate in the Paramount protest, which was characterized as peaceful\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/11\/23\/news\/companies\/walmart-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Business\/2012\/1123\/Walmart-protests-are-throwback-to-pre-union-days\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfrK-am0qD0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This protest should have been an overwhelming success, giving the Walton family a major pain in the wallet.&#160; It was not because every American who passed by demonstrators and shopped there anyway effectively took the side of the greedy corporation against people like them.&#160; Everyone who dis so should be thoroughly ashamed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, thousands of Wal-mart employees and supporters protested over hours, pay, benefits and working conditions.&#160; Those demonstrators deserved our support.&#160; Sadly, Wal-fart still enjoyed record sales.&#160; The reason for that is even more sad. Hundreds of people &#8212; including some employees &#8212; have taken part in Black Friday demonstrations at Wal-Mart stores nationwide, protesting what <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/black-friday-protests-at-wal-fart\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}