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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRiot Police called on strikers Walmart
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/05/1236604/-Breaking-News-SWAT-Team-called-out-to-deal-with-the-WalmartStrikers-and-protesters-in-Renton-WAA Hundred Arrested Protesting Walmart Firings
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/09/hundred-arrested-protesting-walmart-firings
mike_c
(36,281 posts)None of them acceptable in polite company, I might add.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)what? This is freakin' obscene imo.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)and strike busting needs. Is all that gear really necessary in order to harass unarmed protesters? I mean, one would think meter readers would have been able to "subdue" these evil working people rather than some paramilitary police group.
Happy Labor Day!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Looks like some black opps wackos...
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)and the companies either had the local police "deal with" the strikers, or the company brought in their own hooligans?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Coming full circle.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)singing that song. The Conversatives are destroying the Unions for profit. Workers suffer. Strikers across America, I applaud you!
DebJ
(7,699 posts)HumansAndResources
(229 posts)Externalize Costs, Internalize Profits - and convince the masses "Elite's bought and paid-for govt" works for "us." Epic Trick.
Your 'tax dollars' pay for their goon-squads, their gas, tasers, and batons - and the animal-cages you will be placed in if you "disobey" the Billionaires orders, as filtered through the politicians and judges they appoint with their dollars.
The good news, as this Planetary Rip Off will only last as long as the Kochs', Rockefellers', and Waltons' government and other "institutions" have "credibility." That is fading fast.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Today's pigs are no better than pinkertons.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)corporate media is not covering this.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)Maybe the striking rebels could get some Tomahawk support here at home...
TYY
ChazInAz
(2,573 posts)"You'll either be a union man,
Or a thug for A.D. Blair.
Which side are you on, men?
Which side are you on?"
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Study the opposition, and plan accordingly.
Police in riot gear/ Washington state/ conducted on dark surfaced parking lot.
Okay, prime time for this sort of event in in high summer. The riot cops in their super-trooper, uber spiffy, black, poorly ventilated, heavy, unyielding, urban-crusader-outfits-of-intimidation (complete with the wooden version of light sabers, all the better to defend AMERICA from the Americans) who get to stand for hours on blacktop; look like they could use sometime in their personal portable saunas.
The night before...dump 30 2 liters root beers on the parking lot to attract bugs. (wear lots of OFF at the protest).
At least 5 videographers 2 in the mob 3 outside the mob. Live feed via WiFi if possible.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)We're about to hit the rainy season and it lasts most of nine months. Trust me, September is the very best time (usually) to stage this. It's still hot this year, usually by now, it's cooled and it only rains about every third day instead of every day as it will come October.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)mwrguy
(3,245 posts)ocpagu
(1,954 posts)marble falls
(57,355 posts)cheapdate
(3,811 posts)JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)they really are the Black Shirts. They're hiding their death head symbols however.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)..Walmart+strike and the first name in the list that showed up was not MSNBC, Or KQED, or CNN or ABC, NBC, or CBS.
The first outlet reporting labor news in America was Al Jazeera.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Please let work together for the better good for America, I hope.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)bluedeathray
(511 posts)Social ruin! Corporate greed! Short sighted capitalism!
Always!
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)DLevine
(1,788 posts)DiverDave
(4,887 posts)eom
Trillo
(9,154 posts)I would not cross their picket line in any case, however, I also would run as fast as I could away from walmart if that's what I saw there, armed thugs protecting elitesters. So, perhaps the strikers should all dress up as SWAT team personnel, get some plastic but real looking bean-bag guns or whatever, and strike around Walmart.
What better way to insure the customer goes the other way!
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Which side are you on?