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On Black Friday, Look Into "Deals" You Can Get on Student Loan Payments
While you’re searching for deals on a TV or bread maker, don’t forget to look into what kind of deals you can get on your student loan payments.
View ArticleMojo Friday - Black Friday, NOT! - Edition
This year they couldn't even wait for Friday to launch their sales. America's retailers were jumping all over themselves to get a leg up on their competitors. Announcing and offering Black Friday...
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Why Walmart? A Network of Protests
The Light Brigade Network continues to grow, with actions like fireflies in an August night happening around the country. From Portland to Peoria, different groups came out last night, holding...
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Walmart strikers and supporters arrested in civil disobedience in cities...
Santa wants Walmart to pay its workers $25,000 a year. As expected, Walmart is facing widespread protests on Black Friday; as has been increasingly the case in recent months, the protests have involved...
View ArticleRemembering Jdimytai Damour, The Martyr of Black Friday
A song for Jdimytai Damour, the Haitian immigrant, killed by a hoard of Black Friday shoppers at a New York Walmart in 2008.I am gratified to see all the protests against Walmart, nationwide today. I...
View ArticleI Will Not Shop on Black Friday
I Will Not Shop on Black FridayI will not shop on Black Friday. I will not shop this mad, sad day. I will not shop inside Wal-mart. I will not push a shopping cart. I will not elbow, push or trample. I...
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Midday open thread
Baghdad Marching Steadily Towards Civil War, One Execution-Style Murder at a Time Extrajudicial, mob-style killings appear to be increasing in frequency in Bagdad. Thursday's murder and body-dumping on...
View ArticleRemembering the Martyr of Black Friday (Why I Will Not Shop Today)
Black Friday has never been the same since 2008. That year, it turned from something mildly annoying to something approaching evil. I know, I know. You're already calling me a Debbie Downer. I know, I...
View ArticleWalmart computer system went down?.
My nieces have always participated in Black Friday madness. This year one of my nieces went to Walmart's Thanksgiving Day crazy-day sale in Valparaiso, Indiana where she had found a sweet deal on...
View ArticleThe begining of a "Green Friday" movement
It is time to stop pandering to the corporate behemoth that rules us. All this publicity for its orgy of glut and waste is unbelievable! The planet is hurting. The economy that hurts it is fed by...
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Walmart protests rack up more than 110 arrests nationwide
Around 1,500 Walmart Black Friday protests nationwide led to more than 110 arrests, according to organizers. They've also drawn support from elected officials and celebrities. In Minneapolis, where 26...
View ArticleBlack Friday - a.k.a. Twigg Discovers American Culture :)
I am not normally one for re-visiting material I wrote in the dim and distant past, yet I am sometimes reminded of older material that makes me smile at a fondly remembered incident, and happens to be...
View ArticleChristmas shopping in Philly-stun guns at the mall.
Franklin Mills Mall, in North Philadelphia, was the scene of a fist fight, females and males, with stun guns, all on video...no one thought to call the cops...http://usnews.nbcnews.com/...Merry...
View ArticleSaturday Night Loser's Club, Vol. CDIV: Post-Black Friday 2013 Edition (w/poll)
Yup, back to 3CM's lazy default mode for an SNLC this evening (and in absentee mode at that, to compound his cosmic loserness), namely the semi-regular appearance of the Post-Black Friday poll in SNLC,...
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UPS gets it right
It is likely you did not see one of these on November 29th. I ordered a new acoustic guitar as a Christmas gift to myself on Tuesday. The store I went to did not have any in stock and would have to...
View ArticleA Black Friday Meditation
As we lick our wounds from Black Friday and head into Cyber Monday, I was struck by a post from my friend and former college professor Mark Murray as he shared his impressions of the "Superbowl of...
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Spy vs. Spy at Walmart
Walmart management watches Black Friday protesters.Barbara Garson, whose marvelous book Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live I reviewed last spring, sent in this first-person account of how she...
View ArticleFighting Back In Little Ways
I just had an experience that I wanted to share with all of you, but by way of background, let me give you a little information about myself. During my time in college I spent several years working at...
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Hall of shame: Retailers opening earlier and earlier on Thanksgiving
Black Friday 2012 What was Black Friday shopping and is now Thanksgiving shopping gives us an amazing view on the race to the bottom when it comes to jobs and the notion that workers maybe deserve to...
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Is Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping worth it, for shoppers or stores?
Doorbuster savings! Huge markdowns! Giant profits! This is the hype of Black Friday and, increasingly, Thanksgiving shopping. It's not the reality, though, however much the retail industry buys its...
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