Okay, NOW I'm REALLY pissed. Will you join me in organizing a "call-in?" campaign?

[BeHereNow]

So today, I went to have some lunch at a family owned restaurant near
my house. I refuse to give my money to corporate owned joints.
Who knows where there food comes from anyway?
Most of it is trucked in frozen from GOD knows where
and we all know that corporations have destroyed our country.

Now to the point of SEETHING, BLINDING RAAAAAAAGE!

As I was walking to the newsstand after lunch, I passed
an Urban Outfitter store and an AT&T store.
Mind you, there used to be NO corporate whores on
this street. BOTH of them had their store entrance doors
WIDE open, while BLASTING their air conditioning.

I went inside both and told them what they were
doing was OBSCENE as well as unconscionable.
I stated that people were DYING over oil/energy consumption
and here they were WASTING energy.

The snot head wanna be hippies at Urban Outfitters
shrugged me off as though I were crazy.
Ship every one of their asses to Iraq, I thought to myself.

A clerk at the AT&T store told me it was
company policy.

I called the corporate headquarters of the
Urban Outshitters to tell them I was
outraged by the store's waste of energy and
that I though a boycott of the store was appropriate
if they continued to fail to support our troops
by wasting energy.

I haven't found the right contact for AT&T yet,
but may I encourage any and all of you to
take action.

If you observe one of these asshole corporate
whore stores leaving their doors open while
their air conditioning is blasting-
SAY something! Go in the store and raise hell!

Organize a local boycott and call in.
I'm going to find out how to start a man on the street
petition signing- reminding passersby that by
condoning the practice and shopping at these
stores, they are supporting the shredding of
our soldiers lives as WELL as contributing to global warming.

Rant off-
BHN

[Radical Activist]

1. I avoid corporate chains as much as possible.

I'll go to some selectively if they do something positive. We need to support local economies with our dollars.

[Warpy]

2. We use evaporative coolers here in the southwest

and something has to be open for them to work.

[Fridays Child]

3. What will spur most people to action is the realization that, when these companies waste energy...

...retail prices skyrocket. We're not only paying for their wastefulness in some abstract way, in some future scenario that Scarlett O'Hara can worry about tomorrow. We are all paying for it, in real money out of our wallets and our paychecks, RIGHT NOW.

[CrispyQ]

4. Company policy? What kind of crap is that?

It might be more helpful to write a LTTE to let your local community know. I doubt the corporate offices give a shit, but if they start getting write ups in the paper they might listen.

That kind of needless waste pisses me off too.

Good luck.

[BeHereNow]

5. WTF? Doesn't anyone else find this disturbing?

BHN