Wal-Mart Is Violating Our Constitutional Right to Protest.....When Will We Say Enough is Enough!!

REFRESHER COURSE - KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS:

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that comprise the Bill of Rights.

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO PEACEABLE ASSEMBLE 

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO PETITION FOR GOVERNMENTAL REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES!!

SEE ARTICLE: We are Winning: Walmart Workers Biggest Protest Yet Shows Workers Won't Be Silent

AS OF TODAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2013: 54 PEOPLE ARRESTED FOR A PEACEFUL PROTEST

Wal-Mart is just one of many big corporations who are in VIOLATION of our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!! They are part of the reason our country is in trillions of dollars of debt. Can you imagine how they could have helped our economy grow if they weren't so greedy???

ARE WE GOING TO STAND-BY AND KEEP DOING NOTHING?

CITIZENS OF AMERICA, THE WORKERS OF WALMART ARE BEGGING YOU TO GET INVOLVED!!!! A FEW HAVE PUT THEIR LIVELIHOOD ON THE LINE. YET WE KEEP SHOPPING THERE.

Shareholders With No Ownership!! Why Own Stock and Have No Say In The Company?

Here’s a thought I've wanted to put out there to my co-humanoids and my wonderful ex co-workers of Walmart: You bought shares in the company you work for right? Most of us do it for profit or call it another way of saving money for Christmas or a rainy day.  Do you realize that as a shareholder/stockholder you own a portion of that company? Then tell me how is it possible that you as a shareholder/stockholder need permission to go to the stockholders meeting? Exactly what does holding stock in a company mean and what benefits do you get from it if they still can fire you?

These questions also goes for Utility companies that say become a member and own part of the company, however if you are late on your payment, they don’t want to know how they can help, they want to know when are you going to pay your bill otherwise they are shutting you down?  Does any of this make any since? You tell me this is partly my company yet you have the right to turn off my utility if I don’t pay? 

We have been bamboozled, hoodwinked, and deceived. About what? What it means to be a part owner of a company.  What it means to support a company that does not have your best interest in heart. First let me start by giving you the definition of a shareholder/stockholder.

Quitting the Oppressive Plantation - Wal-Mart

So I finally did it!!! I quit Wal-Mart. And really I'm not knocking the fact that WalMart has helped me feed my children, put a roof over our heads, etc.  However, the work conditions there like so many other corporations is similar to that of a Plantation.

And they said slavery was dead!!! No it actually is not.  It just got a facelift.  Instead of working on the plantation you work in corporate america.  The slave-owner is your job whether it be Target, Wal-Mart, Chevron, Exxon, Apple, Ford Motors, AT&T, or Oprah Winfrey herself, etc. (for a complete list http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2013/full_list/) the point is, you will never own it, even when you buy stock, you have no say so, it's no different than the plantations of old.

The house-niggas are the management teams.  They have no mind of their own, they are just puppets.  And mind you I'm referring to the majority.  The ones who try to be fair or try to follow policy which are supposed to protect the people, are either ignored, dis-empowered, or made into field hands.  They give you a little more money than the field hands and you think you're make a difference.  But in essence what they did was give you hush money, see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, especially when they crack the whip on the field hands back by demanding "work faster, work harder, same production level" even though they "hung" (fired) some folk for the same pay.

So why did I wait till now to finally say what was on my heart for the six years that I was there.  It's simple. FEAR. Worrying about whether I would get another job, be able to pay my bills, etc.  But isn't that just how the field hands felt? Fearful. You think the slave-owners felt that? Only if there was an uprising. But they had so many different tactics and ways to "keep you in your place".  Only they were allowed to enjoy the "fruits of your labor".

We just allowed FEAR, to keep us from following our dreams.  And once again I am only speaking to those who were like me who felt trapped.  "Leave master and you may get lynched or blackballed", you know what I mean.  So many of us regardless of the color of our skins played a role, some were Kunta Kinte, Kizzy, Chicken George, Binta, or Toby.  It didn't matter what plantation you went to they would still get you. Sure the higher you went up, the easier it seemed but it always comes at a price.  Maybe you have less of a social life or less family time, or you have to compromise your integrity.

Eventually, you take on the attitude, "if I can just make it till retirement" and by this time the best part of your life is gone.  And those of us who lost all zeal of life will declare like Celie "this life soon be over.... Heaven last always".