Protesting More, Blocking Traffic Less

PRESUMABLY THE BLACK FRIDAY Wal Mart worker's protests went off without a hitch. We hope and trust that everything went well, because we the people, the ninety nine percent, fully support those among us seeking economic justice. About half the Wal Marts in the United States were "scheduled" for picketing and changing and hand holding on the busiest shopping day of the year. You heard a great deal about the shopping day, but very little, if anything, about the protest in the mainstream conservative American media. It my very well be that our corporate masters are starting to become uneasy about the sudden upsurge in restlessness among the millions of America's meager wage workers, and have decided that we the people just don't need to hear too much about all that. First thing you know, middle class Americans would start to empathize with the low wage class, and there might be some real trouble in land of liberty, freedom, and resource exploitation. So the advocates of a living wage for all will simply have to put more effort into it, will have to show up so early and so oftern and with so very many members that the affluent sectors of the country are unable to ingore it anymore. The protestors did go a bit overboard in Ontario Canada, however. Some of them were arrested for sitting down in the middle of the street near Wal Mart and blocking traffic. They'd be more effective to stand outside Wal Mart once a week, with signs, and never once block traffic. True change requires effort, not tacky displays of inane power. That's certainly no way to win popular approval, blocking traffic. If I'm in a hurry to get somewhere important, as I always am, and I end up late because of a bunch of lawless malconcent workers, I might be a bit late to come over to their cause celebre. The American labor movement has never been able to get anything done on its own. Hell, even though there are more Wal Mart workers than wild hogs, they can't even organize and work together sufficiently to create a labor union. Labor always needs alliances with elected politicians, and for this, labor needs popularity. Take the tough road, the high road, workers of the world, you have only your poverty to lose!