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 ‘America’s Storage Shed’ OccupiedPosted on Mar 10, 2012
Wal-Mart shut down three warehouses in Southern California on Feb. 29 when Occupiers gathered in Mira Loma to ally with unions and show support for the region’s 118,000 storehouse workers, many of whom are underpaid and overworked. —ARK
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By A. Benway, March 11, 2012 at 9:44 am Link to this comment
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“Occupy X” is, according to a reasonable logic based on the history of “occupations” not a “movement” but a set of or series of signal events or signal actions. In this sense it’s “mummering” - in that tradition. Neither movements nor signal actions are trivial, but it’s important to understand the difference between them. In the present-day example of “Occupy X” the significance is that many Americans now see themselves as excluded and without political power. They’re correct. This isn’t politics, but it does set the stage for politics - probably, I am sorry to say, violent politics. Well, isn’t that the standard (and only) method the elite has?
Report thisBy ohiolibgal, March 11, 2012 at 9:37 am Link to this comment
The conditions in these warehouses are horrendous.
I recently read a long article in “Mother Jones” about what goes on in those places. They treat people as subhuman slaves, people can get fired for saying “hi” to another worker or helping them. Standard practice is to fire people for missing for any reason their 1st 2 weeks, if a there is an emergency with a parent or child too bad. After the 1st two weeks they get one sick day for the year.
It’s a by product of our move to an increasingly cold corporate state,fewer and fewer haves who have more and more - and more and more who have not so much who get worked harder and harder for less and less. The Ayn Rand crowd have to be thrilled.
It’s not the US I grew up in, not even close….and it’s not like I’m all that old. I saw the cartoon showing how far the 2012 republicans have moved for Lincoln, heck, Reagan would get booted from that far right loony party today.
Report thisBy lostmonster, March 11, 2012 at 9:30 am Link to this comment
I hope their actions bring the issue to the limelight.
Some NPR radio programs interviewed a girl that worked
Report thisin a particular storehouse owned my Amazon located
‘somewhere in the midwest’ and she illuminated the
various workers’ rights violations occurring daily;
however her actions and that radio program didn’t seem
to make the issue catch on with the public.
By pundaint, March 10, 2012 at 12:01 pm Link to this comment
Good Luck to the strikers and the American People, as this action is linked to our
Report thisinterests too.