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12th May 2012

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12th May 2012

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29th February 2012

Photo reblogged from    Occupy All Streets with 44 notes

occupyallstreets:

Fox News: Lets Give Thanks For The One Percent

The article fails to mention anything regarding wealth inequality and ask readers to thank Walmart and Apple for offering consumer electronics and easier holiday shopping. 

They completely ignored the reasons why we protest Wal-mart; child labor violations, prison labor, overseas labor, labor union opposition, gender, race and sexual orientation discrimination and the hiring of illegal workers.

Faux-News wants you to thank Walmart but I’ll tell you why you shouldn’t.

Hiring and exploiting illegal workers. In October of  2003, federal agents raided 61 Walmart stores in 21 U.S. states in a crackdown known as “Operation Rollback,” resulting in the arrests of 250 nightshift janitors who were undocumented. The October 2003 raid was not the first time Walmart was found using unauthorized workers. Earlier raids in 1998 and 2001 resulted in the arrests of 100 workers without documentation located at Walmart stores around the country.

Racism. On March 18, 2010 at a lcal Walmart in New Jersey an announcement was made allegedly saying: “Attention Walmart customers - all black people leave the store now”. Two days later, on March 20, the suspect, a 16-year-old male, was arrested and charged with bias intimidation and harassment by Washington Township police. It seems the youth is suspected of being the perpetrator in a similar but less substantiated earlier incident at the same store.

Walmart illegally harms endangered species. In 2007, it was revealed that furniture sold at Walmart was made from wood which had been illegally logged in protected Russian habitats for Siberian tigers and other wildlife. Walmart promised to stop selling products that used wood from those areas, but not until the year 2013.

Overseas sweatshops and prison labor. There have been reports of teenagers in Bangladesh working in sweatshops 80 hours per week at $0.14 per hour. The documentary film Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price shows images of factories that produce goods for Walmart that appear in poor condition, and factory workers subject to abuse and conditions the documentary producers consider inhumane.

In 1995, Chinese dissident Harry Wu charged that Walmart was contracting prison labor in Guangdong Province. However, Walmart says it does not use prison labor.

Taxes. Until the mid-1990s, Walmart took out corporate-owned life insurance policies on its employees including “low-level” employees such as janitors, cashiers, and stockers. This type of insurance is usually purchased to cover a company against financial loss when a high-ranking employee (i.e. management) dies, and is usually known as “Key Man Insurance.” Critics derided Walmart as buying what they called “Dead Peasants Insurance” or “Janitor Insurance.” Critics, as well as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, charge that the company was trying to profit from the deaths of its employees, and take advantage of the tax law which allowed it to deduct the premiums. The practice was stopped in the mid-1990s when the federal government closed the tax deduction and began to pursue Walmart for back taxes.

Source: occupyallstreets