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Occupy targets retailers on Black Friday
The Occupy movement is taking on the biggest retail day of the season, calling on protesters to occupy major retailers on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
"OCCUPY BLACK FRIDAY by occupying/boycotting large chain stores and publicly traded retail" is the message posted on the website stopblackfriday.com.
The movement contends that 1% of the country is making money at the expense of the other 99%.
"The credit cards the 99% overcharge will allow the 1% to enrich themselves gluttonously on the backs of hardworking people who simply want to provide a memorable time for their families," the website says.
"So just imagine what would happen to the 1% if the 99% did not spend on Black Friday."
The site asks protesters to target only "publicly traded large businesses" and support small businesses "that serve our local communities."
The site lists Abercrombie & Fitch, Amazon.com, AT&T Wireless, Burlington Coat Factory, Dick's Sporting Goods, Dollar Tree, The Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, Office Max, Toys "R" Us, Verizon Wireless and Wal-Mart as businesses that should be boycotted or occupied.
"We are NOT anti-capitalist, just anti-crapitalist," the site says.
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Please just pick up your stuff and move to a nice socialist country like France, Greece or Venezuela where someone will give you a nice job and you can be part of the working class. Oh wait, that does not seem to be working too well either.
If you are participating in this, please BOYCOTT, don't OCCUPY. Exercise your protest with your wallet, not by blocking private property. The latter will just get you arrested, the former might actually accomplish something.
I work at a small business (10 employees) and Dick's Sporting Goods is one of the national retailers that sells our product. Thanks OWS.
I think I will borrow my daughter's power wheelchair and go shopping. Imagine if all the OWS had to scatter when they see me coming through the store at 15 mph right toward them? Imagine if the OWS could not blockade a store, sit down in front of it, make it difficult for grandparents, parents and others to go shopping because a heavy motorized wheelchair was disrupting THEIR plans???? !
"So just imagine what would happen to the 1% if the 99% did not spend on Black Friday."
More OWS logic fail. The goods will still be bought, albiet another day. All these clowns will manage to do is make those trying to shop, the ones whol only want to create memorable times, frustrated.
That's brilliant... black list large, publicly traded companies so no one shops there, and then all the employees get fired because the company goes out of business. Brilliant solution.
BTW, would love to see them take over the internet and occupy Amazon.com. Bunch of mis-guided, mis-informed simpletons.
Occupy Wall Street; those possessing intelligence and common sense need not apply....
KM – Very well said indeed!
Lol! Sounds like the pot calling the keddle black.
"The credit cards the 99% overcharge will allow the 1% to enrich themselves gluttonously on the backs of hardworking people who simply want to provide a memorable time for their families," the website says.
Really? Someone from the 1% forced them to get the credit card? And then someone from the 1% prevented them from paying it off each month? And then someone from the 1% forced them to charge more than their limit?
A credit card is a great tool. It lets you have quick access to money in an emergency. It lets you use someone else's money for free for a month – provided you pay it off each month. Yes, a credit card is a great tool provided YOU have more than 2 brain cells to rub together.
How, exactly, is this sticking it to the 1%? Stop all this ludicrous posturing and work to CHANGE the problem which is LOBBYING and the SUPREME COURT DECISION Citizens United vs. FEC. Change those and you've changed the game. Everything else is just pis*sing the rest of us off.
This stupid action will only serve to anger the public and destroy their declining reputation
This is a goo tactic. The best way to bring prices down to what they should be is to force big retailers into an overstock situation so they have to reduce prices to get rid of the products.
This is a ridiculous statement. Go back to school and take economics.
Ironic program from AMEX, likely in response to the movement.
To drum up support for small businesses, American Express is offering its card owners $25 if they shop at locally owned businesses this Saturday.
Squeezed between the popular Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping holiday bonanza is Small Business Saturday, November 26.
To promote the small business initiative, AMEX is offering consumer or business card holders a $25 when they spend $25 or more, making qualified purchases free or deeply discounted.
To be eligible, card owners must register on the Small Business Saturday Facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/SmallBusinessSaturday and read the terms and conditions to confirm that they qualify.
Response?
BS with a capital B and capital S.
Get over yourself.
i can assure you this wasn't "in response", considering i saw a commercial for AmEx's support for Local Small Businesses on Small Business Saturday several weeks ago.
Capital G with a capital E and D. All you could probably muster up, and someone must be paying you way more than your worth hater.
I thought the OWS movement was against corruption between government and Wall Street, now it's changed to be disrupting the average families Christmas? Also, does anyone actually go out to the stores on Black Friday anymore? I'll buy all of my stuff online and midnight tonight and pick it up sometime next week.
So what is a job $20, $40 $100 an hour. I've worked for 7.50 an hour, much better than sitting home and waiting for everyone to take care of me. Have your boycott, sit out in the cold and be mad. The rest of us will pay our bills, buy or christmas presents and by happy.
You must live at home with your mom than, cause anyone making $7.50 an hour can't afford living, food, or anything.
LoL...let's see...$7.50/hr...if you work full time 40hr/week that's about $1200 a month...with little to no tax and you probably get a bunch of tax credits come income tax time....if you can't live on that then you are an id!0t...unless you are trying to live like a rich person that you envy
$1,200 a month before taxes so then it's more like $900 a month, what about insurance, rent, food, utilities, unexpected maintenance (Car) and if no car bus pass. Milk, eggs, and bread alone is $10 and what can you make with that. $7.50 an hour is unrealistic. $3.50 a gallon for gas, get your mind right fool.
"The credit cards the 99% overcharge will allow the 1% to enrich themselves gluttonously on the backs of hardworking people who simply want to provide a memorable time for their families," the website says.
Well maybe if you didn't purchase things with credit cards, but instead payed for things with cash, it wouldn't be such an issue. These Occupy protesters are really smart!
This group is hopeless and doesnt have a clue except to attack anything that makes money.