10-21-11 Another Occupy Walmart demonstration; this time, in DC.
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This is a story that is just beginning to unfold. Check this out!
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Well, it was inevitable. The Occupy Wall Street movement has found its logical extension in a new “Occupy Walmart” wave that has hit the internet with its own Facebook page; and even “Don’t Occupy Walmart,” which takes the same position, arguing only the name.
Go ahead…Google it. You know you want to.
Lots of folks seem to have had the same idea. Consumers must take the “Occupy Wall Street” movement to the well that feeds Wall Street; and what better place to start with than Walmart?
Walmart virtually defined the economic race to the bottom in America. Now that the retail predator has strip-mined American consumers to the breaking point and pock-marked the rural countryside with its behemoth supercenters, it finds its market here leveling off somewhat, and has turned its attention elsewhere.
Like a cancer that depends for its perpetuation on unlimited growth, the economic model that Walmart’s practices have engendered in American business has finally metastasized to the brink of killing the host.
“Occupy Walmart” or “Don’t Occupy Walmart,” the message is the same. We have it within our power as consumers to stop enabling Wall Street greed machines by denying our business to the worst offenders, among which Walmart is still #1.
This is what I’d hoped would happen: spotlight issues of corporatism and greed (as opposed to capitalism itself), people extrapolate and apply to other specific problems under that same conceptual and tactical umbrella. Next, hopefully we can organically develop a good strategic arc to help foster solutions.
…ya gotta put it in plain language, please.
Nice writing, though, Sue. Enjoyed reading it:) Occupying Wall Street is just a start.
Before providing a link to Free Republic. The story was okay, but I had to put on mental earmuffs to drown out the knuckle-dragging idiocy of nearly every commenter.
This movement has to be pandemic to work. If anyone should be protesting it it should be the 5% that use 25% of the worlds resources. This is not a sustainable ratio. It’s crunch time. Whether you believe that Americans are the cause of environmental or sociological shifts or not, there is a massive grab for natural and unnatural resource at this time regardless of how it is conducted, refined, processed, or retailed. It can be proven without doubt that these power grabs have a profit to human life ratio, as with Bextra, Pfizer’s pain killer, the BP spill the wall street bailout, even the Exxon Veldez spill 20 year ago. We all know the stories,” too big to fail.” Story’s like these may or may not be proof of the fall in bee population. We can prove there is a massive disparity in the reckless abandonment to compensation ratio, to the point where breaking the law for profit has become the norm, even rewarded, while for others the only safety the population has is the companies own greed. These practices have occurred throughout the world throughout time. Whether they are poisoning, dislocating, or enslaving, surviving is no way to live.
By the results of the last presidential election, it looks like the only ratio that could trump the previous ratios is our hope to change ratio, which is more abysmal than OWS 99% to 1%. If their is any demand from the people it should be for the resignation of all government officials above the status of mayor. There is no need to demand anything less. Sorry to the ones with good intentions, but you are guilty through association. We have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. I blame you for the world seeing us not as Troy Davis, the victims of a corrupt system, but Joe Paterno, the person who made the career choice to look the other way with a total disregard for life, and a pathological sense of denial, while his minions participated in perhaps the largest knee jerk display of misplaced emotion the planet has ever seen. We are all Penn State.