Wal-Mart Flash Mob Protest Occupy Ann Arbor, Saline Michigan Black Friday 2011

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Attention Wal-Mart shoppers:

We are here/ to acknowledge/ that low prices,/ come with a high cost,/ both locally and globally:

750 thousand women/ work as "sales associates"/ in Wal-Mart stores.

These women /are paid wages/ well below the poverty level

Half of those women /qualify for federal assistance.

*Wal-Mart drives down wages/ in urban areas,/ with an annual lost/earnings of at least $4.47 billion dollars/ for retail workers.

A "full-time" Wal-Mart employee/ must work / 1646 years/ in order to accumulate/ what the Wal-Mart CEO/ receives for one year.

Wal-Mart's refusal to pay American's living wage costs Taxpayers over 1 billion dollars to Support its Employees

1 Wal-Mart store with 200 employees costs federal taxpayers over 400 thousand dollars per year.

Wal-Mart's health care plan fails to cover nearly 700,000 employees.

Thousands of employees and their children across the nation are on Federal and State health insurance plans.

Women who work for Wal-Mart make up more than two-thirds of its hourly employees, but hold only one-third of managerial positions.

Only 15 percent of Wal-Mart store managers are women.

Wal-Mart has played a major role in the outsourcing of American jobs overseas.

Wal-Mart now imports over 50 percent of its merchandise from overseas.

Wal-Mart has used its tremendous power in the marketplace to bully American firms into moving their production facilities overseas and are required to keep prices low at all costs, even if it requires forcing employees to work in sweatshop conditions.

Women who make pants in El Salvador earn 15 cents for each pair; Wal-Mart sells these pants for about $16.

Women in Central America who make clothes for Wal-Mart live in shacks lacking running water or plumbing.

Women in China live nine to twelve to a room in government-provided dormitories.

A new Wal-Mart destroys jobs by putting local merchants out of business, in return Wal-Mart creates fewer jobs with lower pay and mostly part-time.




We the 99% encourage you to as a shopper to be aware, of where your money is going, to support local business which tend to offer better working conditions, and chance for advancement.




To the employees of Wal-Mart, please know you are not to blame, know that you have a voice, you have the power to take a stand, and know that we are the 99% and stand behind you.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Walmart Michigan
• Black Friday
• Wal-Mart
• Flash Mob
• Protest
• Occupy
• Occupy Ann Arbor
• Occupy Wall Street
• OWS
• OAA
• Saline
• MI
• Ann Arbor

[ss109guy]

What a bunch of derelicts Geez. But on the upside it shows what a bunch of loosers the protesters are. Maybe if you would wash your hair and shave (women included) you might stand a chance of getting a job. I guess you would also have to move out of mom's basement then out of that liberal bastion of Michigan though. Unbelievable.

[LindsayStone]

@ss109guy Funny thing is all 22 of us either have jobs or are in college. There were 2 lawyers there, a social worker, also a couple of IT people, I myself am a web developer and Online Marketing manager. So I believe your misguided conclusion is simply that... misguided and uninformed, but thank you and have a great day.

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

I love you Michigan!

Occupy Cadillac, Occupy Flint, Occupy Southeast Michigan, Occupy Michigan, Occupy Lansing, Occupy Detroit, Occupy Saginaw, Occupy Bay City, Occupy Mt. Pleasant, Occupy Traverse City, Occupy Sault Ste. Marie, Occupy Marquette, Occupy Ann Arbor, Occupy Grand Rapids, Occupy Alpena, Occupy Northeast Michigan and every other Occupy Group in Michigan.

Love you ALL.

[desus123OGT]

what a bunch of shit faced fuck heads.

[MartyBarret]

Is that a dude or a chick?

[thegoodsandwich]

Thank you for posting this, Walmart does need to change it's ways. :3

[ss109guy]

@gizzybizzy14 Your moronic reply is a perfect representation of who these people are. Jesus are you 6 years old or mentally handicapped? I can not imagine leaving a message so poorly written. Do you have no pride in yourself? Oh wait I think I get it, this is some kind of ghetto talk, right?

[gizzybizzy14]

@ss109guy yo wtf ur retarded u fucking dusty peice of fucking shit fuck stop and get to it i need ur hair to make me some frie bitch

[PortableSoundSystems]

Raising Minimum Wage Raises Unemployment. It is a fact of history and logic Google "50 Years of Research on Minimum Wage" and click on the House.gov article

[LiberalsAreWeak]

@ss109guy no you're just fat and ugly as HELL. But I'm sure you hear that all the time.