"Security Forces Arrest Supporters of Striking Walmart Warehouse Workers"

Last edited Thu Oct 4, 2012, 12:02 PM - Edit history (5)

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/10/01/private-security-force-arrests-supporters-of-striking-walmart-warehouse-workers/

Community, faith and labor organizations mobilized this afternoon for a rally and civil disobedience action in support of thirty-eight workers on strike at a Walmart warehouse in Elwood, Illinois. They marched down to this distribution center, and, at least thirteen clergy and community leaders sat down and blocked an entrance to the center to prevent goods from arriving or leaving the warehouse. After the leaders sat down in the road, a security force believed to be the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System Mobile Field Force, clad in riot gear, marched out and surrounded the leaders.

The security force arrested all of the people committing civil disobedience. They had an officer with a camera taking video of the action. They also drove a Humvee with an Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) out into the street and parked fifty to one hundred feet away from where people were being arrested. The warehouse was, according to Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ), completely shut down.

Live streamer “MoccupyChi” was on hand and captured the entire action, including the paramilitary force that greeted those engaged in nonviolent action.

(AND they had an LRAD aimed at the protesters. More at the link. This one via Vermin Supreme.)


David Seaman ‏@d_seaman

Maybe, instead of arresting American peaceful protesters today, Wal-Mart could have offered them a living wage. #Walmartstrikers
Retweeted by Anoni


Walmart Workers Ask For Basic Rights, Walmart Calls Riot Police

(Photos of riot cops so ludicrously over-dressed for seated, singing protesters it boggles the mind.)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/walmart-workers-strike-for-safe-warehouse-conditio



Photo by @daneyvilla.

(It's not the first time they've called in the thugs against peaceful protesters...)

#Occupy Observations: F29, Mira Loma, California ALEC Walmart protest

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2012/02/f29-mira-loma-california-alec-walmart.html

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October 4th update: Strikes are spreading!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021469209