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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhoto: Police in riot gear guard the entrance of McDonald's corporate campus (on strike day)
LBN strike story here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014887801
Extra info here: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fast-food-workers-strike-20140903-story.html
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Police guard the entrance of McDonald's corporate campus as about 2,000 fast-food workers and activists seeking higher wages march toward the Oak Brook, Ill., complex in May.
What is McDonald's afraid of?
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Photo: Police in riot gear guard the entrance of McDonald's corporate campus (on strike day) (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Sep 2014
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7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)1. Overkill maybe? n/t
otohara
(24,135 posts)6. Overkill Always
Murika
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. Pathetic.
Then again I would have to be famished to eat one of their McBurgers. I like real food.
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)3. It looks like they have a sense of how angry they have made people.
And they need to protect themselves against their own malevolence.
CanonRay
(14,132 posts)4. Our Police are supposed to serve and protect us
not be the tools and guardians of the 1%
Look at them, dolled up in their riot gear. Had anyone done anything to warrant such a response? Or was this in an anticipation of people marching with signs? I hope many more write articles about what this means, because basically the police are now the security guards of the rich--paid for by your taxes. The 1% should have to pay for their own Pinkertons.
ProfessorPlum
(11,280 posts)7. well f*ing said
onethatcares
(16,204 posts)8. you might want to research that one
the military, the police, the national guard, the railroad police and the rest have always been for the 1%.
CanonRay
(14,132 posts)9. I know historically this has been the case
for example the Haymarket "Riots" in Chicago, but that doesn't make it right. WE pay them. The 1% try to pay as little as they can get away with.