Posted on 04/30/2006 9:38:02 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
This should be a list of who is planning to close their business on Monday, May 1 in response of the Great American Boycott. We should compile it and boycott them ourselves if possible!
Remember to go shopping or work overtime on May 1!
This is a good idea. We should come back and post who was closed.
Well, I know that the cafeteria in my building will be closed. I aint eatin' there ever again.
We do need a list. I am paying close attention to the news and papers and word of mouth.
One of my favorite mexican restuarants is staying open. Yay! Didn't want to write em' off forever. Because I will.
Nothing is happening in my area, so little changes for me - at least locally.
I was reading that some of the individual store owners downtown are concerned but are opening and taking a wait and see approach. I really think it will be Americans that take off work though.
Unless May 1 falls on the weekend and it is a normal day off, there is NO excuse to take off a day meant to celebrate communism. Even the North American labor unions have rejected that day (except for fringe commie elements) and they have a more reasonable Labor Day...
With the exception of tomorrow, I'll take any Monday off that I can:')
The whole thing makes me mad as hell.
In other words, they are all walking out?
Any of these types of business that has to close for the day is good, and maby they strikes will happen more often , and close them permanently so we can rid our nation of this type of tax payer subsidized illegal-black market-labor practices.
For a while many have been calling on going after employers for hiring illegals, laugh but we dont need to if the illegals will go after them for us
These strikers are only exposing which business are hiring illegally, and will hurt the employees most if the business loose revenue, not the US tax payer.
BTTT
Bingo! Let them strike every Monday!
Did anyone else's city have a candlight vigil? I looked around my cul-de-sac to see who still had their lights on. I was happy to see that the only people with their lights off looked like they just weren't home or were asleep.
The news media interviewed Mexicans in Springfield Mo. and one of the Mexican business owners said they are going to march tomorrow but they will do it in a larger city, so as not to offend people here. They don't want to leave their feces in their own nests where people can retaliate, they'll go leave it elsewhere, where they will blend right in.
It will be intersting to see this play out.
Uno de Mayo!
They one and all said they would be closed in support of the boycott.
I live in West Phoenix, a neighborhood that has gone predominately Hispanic in the 10 years I have been here. I see porch lights on up and down the street, no candles burning anywhere!
A quick trip to DUmmieland shows that a bunch of them are supporting tomorrows boycott as far as shopping goes... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1069368
LMAO... DUmmies are supporting it... all my legal immigrant "Hispanic" neighbors think it's a joke!
If we can show internet solidarity by boycotting them, our voice will be heard next time.
Send emails and chain letters to everyone you know asking them to boycott Tyson Foods, until they go broke.
:)Easy Does It:)
This is an excellent idea.
I will attempt to compile businesses in the Austin area, and post later.
Can't we get them to boycott by leaving our county?
Now that would be a boycott
I live in Mesa, Arizona. My cul-de-sac has a lot of Hispanic families on it. Almost everyone had their porch lights on. Those that didn't either weren't awake (an older non-Hispanic lady) or likely forgot to turn on their light, since every other light was on in their house.
Boycott any place that allows them to loiter while awaiting their day labor jobs.
Another "who to boycott" string here - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1624582/posts?page=38
Okay, the Mods just closed that string, directing everyone to this one.
I live and work in the Poughkeepsie NY area and nearly ALL of the Mexican/Central American restaurants and businesses will be closed. So that's it for me, if I want Mexican food I'll settle for Taco Bell. Actually, I have boycotting my favorite Mexican restaurant for 2 years, ever since one of the workers, an old geezer, tried to follow my daughter into the bathroom, which was in the back of the restaurant, and the owners refused to do anything about it. Sorry for the digression..
We have only a handful of Mexican restaurants here -- actually, most of them are U.S. chains, the cuisine isn't authentic Mexican, and the employees are largely "Anglos."
Frankly, I think you can make better authentic Mexican food at home.
"We need to succeed in hurting a big offender like Tyson Foods. They have already announced that they will be closed. they sell all over the country."
I don't buy Tyson anyway, I work in the food industry, and the stories I've heard of the Tyson factories....it's not clean food. I stopped buying them years ago.
I called Tyson. Wondered if they plan to give any Irish or Italian person a day off with pay to celebrate St. Patrick's Day or Columbus Day? Told them I will no longer buy their products and pass the word about how their Company supported an anti-American uprising.
This is making me mad as he((.........
EXXON too? WTG!
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060501/protest.shtml
You bet......still have a half tank of gas but I have to make a statement too!
FYI- in Chicago, Wishbone restaurant on School Street and Lincoln Avenue is closed today in 'support' of the rallies.
Boycott Wishbone!
If anything, this will show the true colors of much of the agitprop.
You've never been in Pittsburgh during rush hour, obviously.
Heard on the news that in Mexico the 'movement' is going to be boycotting WalMart, marching to their stores to send them a message since they're an American company.
Quite true! And frankly, if a restaurant isn't worried about its employees being morally healthy, I'd have to question are they REALLY washing their hands? Yes, I'd rather wrestle with a burrito at home!
I've heard rumors to that effect also- so tell me- what meat do you buy?
Did I read somewhere that Purdue is closing today?
That's my girl!
No street vendors visible in my section of DC.
To: SJackson
This issue is seriously overblown.When I was growing up, (in the upper Midwest), May day was a huge holiday, where retail stores all had sidewalk sales, and parades were back to back all day long. It was also a factory holiday.
Call it what you will, but it is traditional and the fact that not everyone celebrated it, does not make it some sort of Communist plot as some have been saying.
I find all this hyperbole to be nonsense. Just plain vindictive nonsense from a right wing sector that has lost it's marbles.
28 posted on 05/01/2006 9:17:55 AM CDT by Cold Heat
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Last year it was Schaivo. This year it's immigration. What will it be next year?
33 posted on 05/01/2006 9:20:45 AM CDT by jude24 ("The Church is a harlot, but she is my mother." - St. Augustine)
Per your comments on the locked thread, you might enjoy reading
Uno de Mayo--Radical leftists resume massive rallies on May Day...with illegal immigrants as props.
If you dismiss Frontpage Magazine as a vindictive right wing site, try the Socialist Worker Party for a more objective take on International Workers Day.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?--Renewing the traditions of May Day
Next year, same as this year, the celebration has been going on since the 19th century, they’ve simply found a new source of support.
You dropped something from the closed thread
Suggestion/Question: Is there a business out there which has boldly stated that it will FIRE any and all its employees who skip work in order to protest?
If so, I will endeavor to direct my discretionary dollars toward it!
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