Walmart Black Friday Protests Hit Major Cities With Calls For '$15 And Full Time'

Black Friday may be most famous for doorbuster shopping deals, but among progressives it's becoming a regular holiday for labor demonstrations. Friday marked the third consecutive year of scattered but highly visible protests against Walmart. Demonstrators, along with an unknown number of Walmart strikers, are calling for better pay and scheduling practices from the world's largest retailer.

On Thursday and Friday, photos on Twitter tagged with #walmartstrikers showed sizable protests in D.C., Pittsburgh, Northern New Jersey, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Calif., and St. Paul, Minn., among other areas. The protests were led by OUR Walmart, a union-backed worker group, alongside community and labor groups in different cities.
 
Dan Schlademan, campaign director of Making Change at Walmart, a project of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, said on a call with reporters Friday that he expects the number of strikers to be in the hundreds by the end of the day, though the group could not provide a specific number of workers who'd submitted strike notices to their bosses.

"All the signs that we're seeing is that this is going to be the biggest day ever," Schlademan said.

Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for Walmart, told HuffPost that the retailer was more concerned with serving its customers than with protests it views as union stunts. According to Buchanan, more than 22 million shoppers came to Walmart stores on Thanksgiving alone this year.

"We're really focused on our customers," Buchanan said. "We've got millions of customers coming in [on Thanksgiving] and Friday, and we're making sure they have a safe and exciting shopping experience."

Walmart Black Friday Protests Hit Major Cities With Calls For '$15 And Full Time'

FPTV: Immigration Protest | Free Press Houston

I have been sitting on this video for a little over a week, not sure whether to post it or not. I wouldn't call it inflammatory although it is provocative.

One item I did discover during this time of pondering, the President is following the "laws of the lands [sic]," it's called the "Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, passed by the Republican majority Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on Jan. 10, 2006. It was followed by the TVP Re-authorization Acts (different legislation) which were passed by the Republican majority Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2003, 2005, and 2006.

Although I "learned" something new, I still have more questions than answers.
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Some of what you will hear concerning these refugees an the theories anti-immigrant protesters had and didn’t mind sharing

• “[Obama] is a bully and if we don’t push back, he’s not going to stop until he kills and destroys the America we love.”
• “These Latinos are the new Nazis for the blacks. They tried to kill me.”
• “They found some Muslim prayer rugs on the border. They found a couple of books that lead me to believe those aren’t little children coming over unaccompanied.”
• “I don’t want Jihad in my country. They need to keep that in their own land.”
• “There’s evidence of [Lebanese Islamic extremist group] Hezbollah.”
• “There are more than just Mexicans coming over. They have been stopping Muslims, radical Islamics, Chinese.”
• “Obama’s working with [the child refugees] big time.”
• “Obama isn’t for the blacks. He’s for gays, because he’s a homosexual.”

FPTV: Immigration Protest | Free Press Houston