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Celebrities Are Protesting Ferguson Grand Jury Decision With ‘Blackout Black Friday’
Time ^ | 11/27/2014 | Megan Gibson

Posted on 11/27/2014 10:33:20 PM PST by RightGeek

A social media campaign calling for a boycott on spending this Black Friday has caught the attention of celebrities.

In an effort to protest the Missouri grand jury’s decision on Monday not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in August, US celebrities have taken to social media to use the hashtags #NotOneDime, #BlackoutFriday and #BlackoutBlackFriday to advocate for a retail boycott. They include actors Michael B. Jordan and Jesse Williams, Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler, actress Kat Graham, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and journalist Soledad O’Brien . The hashtags are meant to encourage people to stop shopping on the biggest retail day of the year as a protest against police brutality.

The campaign was started by a grassroots group called Blackout for Human Rights, which aims to “to raise awareness that builds and maintains pressure on the instruments of power until we are satisfied that the current threat has passed.” The group has hopes to “make Black Friday (November 28, 2014) a nationwide day of action and retail boycott.”


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anticapitalism; blackfriday; deadthug; ferguson; gentlegiant; gonetosoon; hollywoodreds; liberals; occupyferguson; publicitystunt
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To: RightGeek

I am all for Human Rights starting with the presumption of innocence, right to due process, and the right to avoid all products and stuff related to idiots like this.

I have avoided everything related to Alec Baldwin since his rant against Henry Hyde during Toon’s Impeachment on one of the late shows, just as an example.

I am not for stealing, jaywalking, and punching LEOs in the face when they ask you to get out of the street or any of the other things Brown did. Just think - if Brown had just followed simple instructions, he’d still be alive, Wilson would still be serving the community, and all those business owners and their employees would still be working.

Talk about injustice, just because Brown wouldn’t do a simple little thing, all these other people have suffered. Why don’t they object to robbers, looters and arsonists?


21 posted on 11/27/2014 11:21:05 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

“Why don’t they object to robbers, looters and arsonists?”

Because they’re a major component of the core of the Democratic Party! /s;)


22 posted on 11/27/2014 11:34:42 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: RightGeek

Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays. /s


23 posted on 11/27/2014 11:37:01 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Bobalu; GeronL; Norm Lenhart; Trillian

Cool - now I have an excuse to buy that keyboard I’ve been thinking about getting.


24 posted on 11/27/2014 11:42:44 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: therapsida

I went to Office max this evening to look around.

They were not boycotting.

The WalMart in the same strip mall was SO full, the cars were parked clear down to Home Depot, several hundred yards away.

I don’t think the blackout will work.

At all.

FWIW, you could not pay me enough to be at WalMart for today’s psycho circus.


25 posted on 11/27/2014 11:45:03 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: RightGeek

Does this include a boycott on robbing people in Mall/Walmart parking lots on Black Friday??

Happened to a black friend last year, on black Friday, held up by two AA’s with guns.


26 posted on 11/27/2014 11:46:05 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Salamander

“FWIW, you could not pay me enough to be at WalMart for today’s psycho circus.” I leaned several years ago to NEVER go near a city Walmart on “Black Friday” (now Thursday).

Beyond the usual inner-city type crowd inside, you have to run the gauntlet of robbers and hoodlums outside.

We go to the small town about 30 miles away, if we go, now. Completely different experience!


27 posted on 11/27/2014 11:48:41 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Just call’em ‘Pokis’ as in ‘Pokemon’. They function the same way. Disposable cannon fodder for someone else’s quest for power..


28 posted on 11/27/2014 11:48:57 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: RightGeek

Here are the gun laws I found for MO for whatever that means or can help. http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-laws/missouri.aspx


29 posted on 11/27/2014 11:49:37 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: RightGeek

before long, Black Friday will need to be renamed because its racist


30 posted on 11/27/2014 11:49:39 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: Norm Lenhart

> Just call’em ‘Pokis’ as in ‘Pokemon’. They function the same way. Disposable cannon fodder for someone else’s quest for powe

Sounds a bit like cockfighting. ;^)


31 posted on 11/27/2014 11:52:19 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: LeoWindhorse

If you didn’t hear about it: http://fusion.net/story/29330/across-the-tracks-from-ferguson-clayton-enlists-private-army-to-brace-for-trouble/

Across the tracks from Ferguson...


32 posted on 11/27/2014 11:52:53 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: Bronzy

And do not mean that they demand anything but protection from the mobs.


33 posted on 11/27/2014 11:55:11 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: tcrlaf

I live in the sticks and the “big town” not very far away where Walmart is, is still pretty small.

Here, they generally just rob stores and shoot each other.

However, I have no desire to push my luck.

I’m not very big and would be easily trampled.

I went to one Best Buy black Friday.

It was -very- cold and I don’t think I even bought anything.

And then there’s the drivers.

Two drivers nearly hit us, I suppose in the name of getting one car length closer to *whatever*.

Pitiful.

OTOH, my male Dobe is allowed to go in stores with me, even though I’ve never taken advantage of that, save pet stores where he can already go, anyway.

I *could* finally make use of him, tomorrow, if I wanted to.

:)


34 posted on 11/27/2014 11:55:52 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Bronzy

see post 33


35 posted on 11/27/2014 11:56:12 PM PST by Bronzy
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To: blackdog

the private jet pilots should boycott piloting these s#itheads


36 posted on 11/28/2014 12:08:09 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: RightGeek

I love one-percenters when they turn all moralistic. They’re free to boycott anyone they want, but inasmuch as they’re blaming me for the injustices and inequities of society, they better not hope for my help. They are, after all, people with lavish lifestyles who point their fingers at me as “privileged”. I should be so oppressed as they are.


37 posted on 11/28/2014 12:17:44 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: LeoWindhorse
Exec jet pilots don't do politics or social causes. Just about the only thing that sways them is free food and a courtesy car.

Been there, done that. Boy do I have some stories! I flew many a politician during the 1996 races. Dole used AFLAC's Jet and crew. One time I picked up a bunch of politicians on short notice. Jesse Helms, Henry Kissinger, and Elizabeth Dole. They were very good friends. The trip was very personal involving the private life of one of them. The other two were there for support.

I flew Mother Theresa during her visit. She never said much.

Now TV preachers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh boy! What nasty foul sociopaths that bunch is!

38 posted on 11/28/2014 12:31:25 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: RightGeek

Wow. They can’t even boycott correctly.


39 posted on 11/28/2014 12:35:24 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Salamander

"FWIW, you could not pay me enough to be at WalMart for today’s psycho circus."

Well, if you're not going, can I use your ticket?


40 posted on 11/28/2014 1:24:28 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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