From The Huffington Post via ourfuture.org
“Surrounded by about 100 police officers in riot gear and a helicopter
circling above, more than 50 Walmart workers and supporters were
arrested in downtown Los Angeles Thursday night as they sat
in the street protesting what they called the retailer’s ‘poverty
wages.’
Organizers said it was the largest single act of civil
disobedience in Walmart’s 50-year history.
The 54 arrestees, with about
500 protesting Walmart workers, clergy and supporters, demonstrated
outside LA’s Chinatown Walmart. Those who refused police orders to clear
the street after their permit expired were arrested without incident.
Those who fail to post $5,000 bail would be jailed overnight, Detective
Gus Villanueva, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman, told The
Huffington Post.
Their primary demand to Walmart: pay every full-time
worker at least $25,000 a year.”
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