HUFFINGTON POST: … Organizers said it was the largest single act of civil disobedience in Walmart’s 50-year history. The 54 arrestees, with about 500 protesting Walmart workers, clergy and supporters, demonstrated outside LA’s Chinatown Walmart. Those who refused police orders to clear the street after their permit expired were arrested without incident. Those who fail to post $5,000 bail would be jailed overnight, Detective Gus Villanueva, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman, told The Huffington Post.
Their primary demand to Walmart: pay every full-time worker at least $25,000 a year.
One of the protesting Walmart workers, Anthony Goytia, a 31-year-old father of two, said he believes he will make about $12,000 this year. It’s a daily struggle, he said, “to make sure my family doesn’t go hungry.” … (more)
EDITOR: We have all been bombarded by a multi-million dollar TV campaign about what a wonderful place Walmart is to work featuring ever so happy Walmart employees.
The above is what is called ‘earned advertising’, ways of getting a message out to the public for those who do not have money to spend. It is a form of ‘political activism.’
