Forum Post: BBF- Boycott Black Friday
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 3, 2011, 9:07 a.m. EST by SolarD
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from New York, NY
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The actions of the 99% are gaining attention. Congratulations to Occupy Oakland in achieving it's goal of shuting down the port. Let the voice of the people be heard. Here is another way to be heard; over the Thanksgiving weekend, spend your weekend with family and friends, don't go to the mall or do any Christmas shopping. Boycott all the national retail establishments, buy only food and medical needs, the essentials. We can put our collective foot down and make a big impact on the biggest retail days of the year. Stay Peaceful, Stay Strong!
That's a goal, shutting down a port? People work there and depend on that port. Are moonbats like you even aware that the Panama Canal is being widened giving greater access to ports like Houston and Miami for Asian traffic? Giving that crud-hold Oakland another black eye does anyone any good, how exactly?
Houston and Miami don't service Silicon Valley and the 50th largest urban area in the world.
Oh Lord. Silicon valley depends on air transportation and telecommunications, not the Port of Oakland. Consumer goods going into stores around there can come by other routes. The idea of labor taking infrastructure hostage for extortion doesn't work very well over time. Oakland as a choke point for trade into the interior U.S. is about to diminish. Same goes for Long Beach. Mental case unions have inspired the Mexicans to build out a competitive Pacific port too. Soon, an expanded Panama Canal will give even more Americans a chance at jobs. And they'll even want to show up to work.
Nice job, give Oakland an even worse reputation.
Uh, right. You have it all figured out. Let's just go through the incredible trouble of rerouting all of the products that flow through the Port of Oakland. Are they going to come by truck on the 5, genius? Or maybe the Port of Redwood City and the Port of San Francisco can handle it, even though neither has the capacity to handle that volume of goods. And all electronics from Asia come by air? I didn't know that!
It takes time, but the change will happen. The geography served by Oakland and Long Beach will steadily shrink in response to over-reaching labor unions that think they're job entitles them to a personal tariff on imports to the United States. Just wait until the expanded canal opens up. Shipments to the interior from places like Oakland and Long Beach are set to fall. Congratulations!
You are funny. Thanks for my morning laugh. :). You have no idea what's going on here do you? You don't get the impact of taking over a port. Either you are actually naive or you're just pretending to be naive. When other occupations grow in size will you uselessly pretend they don't matter either?
You, my friend, are an ostrich.
Okay, well, I'll be waiting.
I have no choice but to "boycott" Black Friday. I am too poor to join in the feeding frenzy for junk that at best might last a month or two. The last time I went to Walmart everything I bought was trash within a couple weeks. And, everything was made in China. I no longer shop at Sprawlmart.
Sorry randart, I was just fired last week. Maybe you can pass along the message BBF.
Sam Walton is shaking in his grave. Please, the number of people with this movement wouldn't even fill one Wal-Mart store. Retailers won't miss you clowns, and likely prefer you stay home.
CBS and Time Magazine polls show that more than 40% of the American people support Occupy Wall Street movement. You are as misguided as your name implies.
All revolutions and changes start small and grow, why not join? What do you have against standing up against the 1%?
I choose to boycott black friday, but mostly because I hate shopping.
What a lasting impression it would make if the 99% stood together and on Black Friday all the Malls and Big National retailers were like ghost towns. We can make a difference. Stay Strong, Stay Peaceful!
So, I just buy my Christmas gifts the after Black Friday? Won't they get my money anyhow? Shouldn't this form of protest be generalized to "don't buy Christmas gifts". I don't see the point.
The point is to hit them in the wallet on their "Biggest" day of the year. A show of strength and solidarity, to prove that the 99% can stand together and make a difference. Stay Strong Stay Peaceful!
If nobody buys on their biggest day of the year, and instead buys a few days later, then all you have accomplished is to move their biggest day of the year. It makes no sense. You should be asking that people not buy gifts from big corporations, but from local shops instead.
The point is to make a point. To show that they (1%) can be gotten to. and that "we the people" can do it. But apathy and and negativity are what the 1% count on and the more you do nothing the more they win, and what they win is your money and your life. How do you think the scales have become so unbalanced?
Like I said, you would not make a point since it won't hurt the 1%. People will just buy their gifts on another day. You're asking us to bail the water out of a sinking Titanic with tiny paper cups and you hope this will make a difference?
The scales have become unbalanced because of bad laws which permit money to creep into politics. The problem is the system, not companies or politicians. If greedy businesses and politicians all died today, they would be replaced very soon. There's a long line of greedy people waiting their turn. The solution is to design laws that make it impossible for the these greedy people to manipulate our money for their benefit.
Retailers like it when hippies don't come in. Particularly food stores cause its just too gross.
So instead of boycotting we should be occupying!
Boycotting is eAsier cause you can stay at home and sleep in and then play video games during the boycott
Wal Mart saves Americans more money than any fucking gov't program ever could. Blacks and poor shop at wal mart and sam's club by higher percentage than ANY other store. But smug asshole liberals despise them because they are non union. They'd rather see a union , with worse service and higher prices for Americas poor.
rndart says "Everything was trash within a couple of weeks". That speaks volumes about YOU asshole.
The idea that walmart actually saves people money has been disproven in multiple studies. What they do is destroy local economies and create MORE poverty everywhere they go. People end up spending more on disposable nonessentials once a walmart comes to town, which makes them poorer, not better off.
Pleas explain it to the blacks, or Maybe they're just too stupid to understand the are getting ripped off....and strangely, at the lowest prices of any items.
The blacks? Lol...super.
I invite you to study the actual facts about walmart and its effect on the towns it comes to. It's prices, when averaged, do NOT save people much, if anything. And taken as a whole, the effect of walmart on the towns it occupies is economically devastating. It's also been shown to be harmful to local organizations, which receive far less financial support from walmart than the small local businesses walmart destroys.