Tag: Protest

• Black Friday protest at Walmart

  Remember this post? Well, probably not. Anyhow, in it I promised to try to eke revenge against the retailers of the world for the shabby way I was treated when I was a retail worker (1978 to 1980) for the now defunct Montgomery Ward Corporation which today is even worse. Now that I am retired,…

  Mark

  December 1, 2014

  Life 2014, Sociology

  Minimum Wage, Our Walmart, Protest, Retail, Retail workers bill of rights, Wal-Mart

• Here is how to really end the war

  According to an email I received today from ImpeachBush.org, approximately a hundred thousand antiwar protesters descended on Washington on Saturday in a mass protest to end the Iraq War. Most likely, the actual number was half this but it is hard to say for sure. While the crowd was undoubtedly large, it did not exactly…

  Mark

  September 17, 2007

  Politics 2007

  Bush, Iraq, Protest, Voting, War

• Our unstoppable energy

  I am a creature of habit. My weekends are normally sacrosanct. After a full week of work, I have a hard time just getting up the energy to pay bills and shop for groceries. Nevertheless, yesterday I found myself drawn, as if by magnetism, out of my bed and into Washington, D.C. for the large…

  Mark

  September 25, 2005

  Politics 2005

  Protest