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http://labornotes.org/blogs/2014/08/hands-dont-ship-minneapolis-ups-workers-protest-shipments-missouri-police
August 26, 2014 / Flintheart Glomgold and Launchpad McQuack
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A dozen part-time UPS workers took protest action after discovering ties between Missouri law enforcement and a company whose shipments they handle each day. - See more at: http://labornotes.org/blogs/2014/08/hands-dont-ship-minneapolis-ups-workers-protest-shipments-missouri-police#sthash.7YRVeSWS.dpuf
A dozen part-time UPS workers in Minneapolis took protest action on the job August 22, after discovering ties between Missouri law enforcement and a company, Law Enforcement Targets, whose shipments we handle each day.
Some of us removed the companys packages from trucks that would deliver them to law enforcement. Others, in solidarity, refused to ferry these packages to their intended trailers.
Others posed with a sign reading #handsupdontship. The phrase hands up, dont shoot has come to symbolize protest over the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.
We decided we could not be silent while our work was contributing to the militarized violence that police are directing at Ferguson residents in the aftermath of Browns death.
- See more at: http://labornotes.org/blogs/2014/08/hands-dont-ship-minneapolis-ups-workers-protest-shipments-missouri-police#sthash.7YRVeSWS.dpuf
FULL story at link.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)See that thread about the young black father tased for nothing.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)golden-girl
(9 posts)Not them just them two police depts, but all police depts. Who needs them.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)to the manufacturer and refund their shipping costs.
I'm fine with anyone who doesn't want to participate in arming the police. But they shouldn't steal from the manufacturer by taking money for a service they will not perform.
Maybe the manufacturer should try the USPS.
MoreGOPoop
(417 posts)Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
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onecent
(6,096 posts)Response to onecent (Reply #10)
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Abq_Sarah
(2,883 posts)Suggesting that an employee who deliberately prevents a legal item from being delivered to the recipient be fired? I'd fire them too. Protest on your time. And yes, I'm saying that as a business owner.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)need to do target practice!
Welcome and ignore the all or nothingers.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,714 posts)NEWBIE troll alert.
Your not much at reading comprehension! Try reading a little slower. Now who is a genius?
They make TARGETS. The company is selling racist targets to boot.
We don't have anything like this at the police dept I work for.
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alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)for the purpose of collecting fines and foreclosures.
Everybody having a little moral fit about "theft" should know that these shipments are paid for by robbing the poor and minority communities through deliberate biased policing tactics, the sole purpose of which is to puff up the revenue of municipalities while reducing taxes on the people and businesses who can most afford to pay them. It's beyond regressive taxation; it is theft, coercion, a "protection" racket all run by our police. I feel ZERO moral qualms about this direct action while municipalities all over this country are floating the white middle class and upper classes by aggressive policing and fine-taking from poor and minority communities. Fuck your claims of "Theft." You're neither honest nor moral as long as you're not shouting mad about that.
Omaha Steve
(99,714 posts)"hear, hear!" It is an abbreviation for "hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!"