Wal-Mart demonstrators (over lousy wages) arrested.

[No Elephants]

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/29/breaking_activists_arrested_in_virginia_at_one_of_1500_planned_wal_mart_protests/

Things have changed since the Ludlow Massacre, but class warfare against the 99% still goes on (and the people oppressing, injuring and killing their fellow workers ofen seem oblivious to which class they and their families belong to):

The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.

In 1914, when workers at Colorado mine went on strike, company guards fired machine guns and killed several men. More battling followed, during which 2 women and 11 children were killed and John D. Rockefeller Jr., the chief mine owner, was pilloried for what had happened.

The massacre resulted in the violent deaths of between 19 and 25 people; sources vary but include two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent. The deaths occurred after a daylong fight between militia and camp guards against striking workers. Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, lasting from September 1913 through December 1914. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF).

In retaliation for Ludlow, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines over the next ten days, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard along a 40-mile front from Trinidad to Walsenburg.<1> The entire strike would cost between 69 and 199 lives. Thomas G. Andrews described it as the "deadliest strike in the history of the United States".<2>

The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn described the Ludlow Massacre as "the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history".<3> Congress responded to public outcry by directing the House Committee on Mines and Mining to investigate the incident.<4> Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promoting child labor laws and an eight-hour work day.

The Ludlow site, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Trinidad, Colorado, is now a ghost town. The massacre site is owned by the UMWA, which erected a granite monument in memory of the miners and their families who died that day.<5> The Ludlow Tent Colony Site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009.<5> Modern archeological investigation largely supports the strikers' reports of the event.<6>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

JDR was pilloried? Really? Which public or private officers apprehended him put him in the stocks in the public square?

Notice also that media was a propaganda arm for the plutocrats even then. (And don't even get me started on William Randolph Hearst!)

Solidarity, WalMart workers, solidarity.

I almost wish that I once shopped at WalMart so I could boycott it, but I have never been in a WalMart store. Been to Target, especially when I thought it was a blue store, but never WalMart.

[Enthusiast]

1. Yes, print media has mostly

been under the control of the 1% since forever. But now the 1% has an Orwellian style propaganda mechanism in television and the internet. So it has gotten worse, much worse.

Anti-labor propaganda has been especially effective. Just look at the result of fewer organized workplaces. Only 7% unionized remaining and our living standards have noticeably declined.

If we believed the propaganda we would expect to see an increase in the number of jobs as the number of unionized workplaces declined. Obviously such is not the case. What we have seen is even more jobs being outsourced to Asia and working conditions and pay declining here.

[No Elephants]

2. Yet, union leaders continue to back New Democrats. Meanwhile, their members are going Republican.

Fifty years ago, most "working people" were Democrats and God Himself could not have persuaded them to vote Republican.

A certain contingent on DU3 cannot bear to have the Obama administration blamed for anything, even on the relatively rare occasions when he himself says he was to blame. Then, that becomes the rare time they disagree with his spin version of events.

"Homeland Security Coordinated 18-City Police Crackdown on Occupy Protest" This article cites several sources for that proposition.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/homeland-security-coordinated-18-city-police-crackdown-on-occupy-protest.html

The USG sees the left as a threat. It has since at least the first Russian Revolution, if not before.


I see I should have previewed that post. Bold face is messed up again.