[nabs-l] a very successful protest in Baltimore

Justin Young jty727 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 26 21:51:32 UTC 2012


I participated in a protest outside the Stoneridge plaza Goodwill
store in Greece, New York(a suburb of city of Rochester, NY in the
upstate New York area) yesterday.  We had two groups which one was
with posters on the sidewalk which was public property while another
was handing out flyers in the plaza area.  It was a great event
overall because many car drivers read the posters, honked their horns,
and cheered.  I hope the rest who participated in protests near their
Goodwill stores went successful as well:)

On 8/26/12, Beth <thebluesisloose at gmail.com> wrote:
> We had a protest in Denver, but I did not get to do it because I
> was busy with stuff.  I live in Aurora now with frinds, but it's
> hard to do anything around the neighborhood because the streets
> are confusing and too narrow for anybody to walk on.
> Beth
>
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> From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
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> Subject: [nabs-l] a very successful protest in Baltimore
>
> Hi fellow Federationists,
>
>
>
> I am very happy to report, as John Pare did on the NFB of
> Maryland list,
> that we had a very successful protest at the Goodwill store in
> downtown
> Baltimore, Maryland. I was very happy to be a part of this
> protest. We
> handed out many flyers and got the attension of many people who
> saw us as
> they were passing the Goodwill store, and even convinced some
> people not to
> shop at the Goodwill when they heard about that company's policy
> of paying
> workers with disabilities subminimum wages. Although nobody who
> worked at
> the store actually came out and talked to us, they most
> definitely saw us
> and were looking at us and our signs. I didn't personally see or
> get to talk
> to anybody from the local Baltimore media, although I did see a
> reporter
> from an online publication called Working in These Times and
> heard most of
> the interview he conducted with our public relations director and
> our
> Greater Baltimore chapter President Chris Danielsen. We have a
> lot of
> pictures and updates from our protest which were posted on the
> NFB Facebook
> page for anybody who is interested; in fact, my profile picture
> on Facebook
> is a picture of me holding my sign and marching in the protest.
> All in all,
> it was both a fun and a successful protest, and to top it off,
> Dr. Maurer
> and some of the national center staff took us all out to dinner
> at the Green
> Turtle (a bar/restaurant chain exclusive to Maryland) across the
> street from
> the protest cite afterwards! A good time was had by all!
>
>
>
> I would be very interested to hear reports of other protests
> conducted by
> other chapters in Maryland and our other affiliates around the
> country. Did
> you get the public's attension? Did you convince some people not
> to shop at
> the Goodwill store at which you were protesting? Did you receive
> any media
> attension?
>
>
>
> I look forward to hearing your reports!
>
>
>
> Chris Nusbaum
>
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