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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Rude Pundit: The Elf on the Shelf Wept: A Scene from One Black Friday Strike
In Ontario, California, a suburb that's part of the Los Angeles sprawl, warehouse workers for Walmart took part in a national Black Friday strike and protest for a living wage from the mega-retailer. Most of the 150 or so people there marched with signs and chanted their chants. However, some of the strikers blocked an intersection. They were joined by one particularly jolly man in red:
Of course, blocking a road with a sit-in is an arresting offense, so as expected, those sitting in were arrested. Either way, you wouldn't want to be this police officer when he gets home to his kids:
The sad part is all that Santa and the workers nationwide want is a guarantee that Walmart will pay its employees $25,000 a year. A mere bag of shells to a company that made $17 billion in profit.
So the question here is the inevitable: Who is naughty in this scenario? Who is nice?
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hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I was listening as she read the instructions and found it somewhat disturbing.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)Read what the Honest Toddler thinks of it:
http://www.toddlercouncil.org/1/post/2013/11/news-update-elf-on-the-shelf.html
heaven05
(18,124 posts)feel sorry for kids today. Santa knew whether we were naughty or nice, and no evil elf sat on a shelf. Very disturbing for many reasons.