Wal-Mart agrees to allow Occupy Falmouth activists on property

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Occupy Falmouth has won a round in its effort to use the Wal-Mart parking lot in Falmouth as a site for the collection of signatures on its petitions.

According to Occupy Falmouth activist and Bridgewater State University professor Sandra Faiman-Silva, the group approached the Falmouth Wal-Mart to make management aware of their plans to gather signatures on the property for their four ballot-initiative petition campaign. The four petitions being: raise the minimum wage, have earned sick time for all workers, and to amend the state constitution and declare that corporations are not people and money is not speech. Each petition needs 70,000 valid signatures statewide in order to be put on November 2014’s ballot.

“Massachusetts has a relatively high unemployment rate and the only jobs people can find are low wages,” says Faiman-Silva.

On Sept. 24 the managers of Wal-Mart denied Occupy Falmouth permission to collect signatures on the property. Massachusetts law says the collection of signatures is allowed on the grounds of privately owned shopping centers. Occupy Falmouth activists contacted Falmouth Police Chief Ed Dunne, who spoke with Wal-Mart management. Wal-Mart then agreed to allow Occupy Falmouth to collect signatures on the property and times were scheduled to do so.

“They put obstacles in our path,” says Faiman-Silva. In the past Occupy Falmouth has spoken out against Wal-Mart concerning the treatment of its employees.

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[pitbullgirl1965]

1. They didn't "agree"

they had no choice in the matter. Good!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. But, but, but occupy is dead

I learned that here. You mean...oh never mind.

Good