Blackout for Black Friday @ Walmart

 (from Occupy Chicago Twitter)



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(from Robert Reich)

Consumer spending is 70 percent of economic activity, but consumers are also workers. And as income and wealth continue to concentrate at the top, and the median wage continues to drop – it’s now 8 percent lower than it was in 2000 – a growing portion of the American workforce lacks the purchasing power to get the economy back to speed. Without a vibrant and growing middle class, Walmart itself won’t have the customers it needs. 

It's why Henry Ford paid his workers 3x what his competitors thought reasonable--it created customers who bought what the company made/provided . . .

Walmart has never embraced this model. At one point recently, 2/3 of their employees in several states received public assistance, and we got cheap stuff from China. 

Reich explains why we shouldn't shop at Walmart this Friday: here 

Union yes!

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from the Daily Kos: how to buy union this Thanksgiving--