Protesters invade Missoula Wal-Mart

[Keirsey]

Protesters invade Missoula Wal-Mart

By VINCE DEVLIN - Missoulian - 11/27/04

Group pushed empty shopping carts through store chanting ‘buy local, buy American'

MISSOULA — Empty shopping carts, pushed by 11 people clad mostly in pink, gathered in the center of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Missoula at lunch time Friday.

"I'm going to have to ask you to leave now," an employee told the group, which then formed a conga line and circled the huge store 1 1/2 times chanting "buy local, buy American" before exiting.

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The group passed out leaflets entitled "How Walmart (sic) is Destroying the World." The word "America" appears before "the World," but is crossed out.

The leaflet claims that two to five existing community jobs are lost for every two new jobs at Wal-Mart; that the majority of Wal-Mart employees have no company-provided health coverage; and that more than 1,800 Iowa grocery, hardware, drug and clothing stores shut their doors in the first 10 years Wal-Mart opened its doors in the state.

http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/11/27/montana/a11112704_01.txt

[tridim]

1. Great work!

Let's take this national. I'm game.

[SmokingJacket]

2. Wonderful!!!!

I love Missoula. People really give a hoot there.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Code Pink?

Whoever, great idea!

[AuntiBush]

4. And to think...

Junior swore he was for the little small business guy/gal... and Kerry merely wanted to save them. Gee...where's their faithful leader now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. my, I wish I had known, and was near

I would have made an exception and actually gone to Walmart for this blue light special.

:-)

Only thing, I would have left the pink shirt at home and worn an American Flag

[meti57b]

6. That was "Code Pink" ... an awesome group!!

"It was "Buy Nothing Day," according to Code Pink, the women's peace movement that organized the protest."

[glitch]

7. Beautiful! I love you Missoula Pink! nt

[benevolent dictator]

8. We've got different flyers... but they're online and you can print them

they're at http://www.ideamouth.com/politics/walmartflyer.pdf they're three to a page, double sided.

http://boycottwalmart.meetup.com

[Sugarbleus]

9. Way cool event!

Did anyone read/hear of an incident somewhere in America where "somebody" glued the locks shut on some store..not sure if it was Walmart. People lined up outside the store waiting to get in..but they had to call locksmiths to "correct the problem"... wow

[RevolutionaryActs]

10. LOL Brilliant! nt