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Interesting. Reminds me of my thoughts about the SLU students’ march last week.
Maybe they figure more people will buy their “Schweetyballs” & other favors because B & J’s is coming down on the right side of this one.
Capitalism as it should be practiced.
Let freedom of speech ring.
It’ll be interesting to see if B&J’s suffers any repercussions from Unilever, although if it does it will probably be in a very quiet, nonpublic way.
Unilever appears quite proud of this company that they own and the things it is doing.
Many companies are not the greedy capitalists that these protesters make them out to be. Those are just punch lines.
Since Ben & Jerry are no longer affiliated with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, I believe their words (and actions) are meaningful.
Unilever may learn from them (and us).
Questioning authority is a good thing…let the questioning continue.
The the blog linked to this post by Julie is an example of snotty opinion. I really dislike holier than thou people, be they on the left or right. Political and/or religious dogma is always junk thought and that is what that blog is.
If everyone who worked for a major corporation directly or indirectly decided because of that they shouldn’t speak up, there wouldn’t be many left to speak up.
Very clever marketing.
Much like how Pres. Obama and Gov. Cuomo expressed varying degrees of sympathy with the protesters even though said pols actually represent the 1%.
I hope Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Ben, Jerry, Governor Moonbeam, et. al. camp on to this movement.
It’s going to get nasty, and it’s going to be a disaster.
Go for it!
But are they protesting all corporations? I wish they would get down to business, which is the fact that there is an insane amount that is made by some people who work directly on Wall Street and they should be taxed at a fair rate and we don’t do enough to help the truly poor in this country.
But they are in the wrong city, the fact is they should be in Washington. Wall Street does what Wall Street always has done, Wall Street can’t change anything in the United States Social structure. Corporations do not have the right to engage in social policy it would be fraud for them to use their owners money in that way.
Ben and Jerry’s are part of the system they can’t have it both ways.
They are not protesting all corporations. They are protesting corporate control of government. The job of corporations is to make money for their shareholders, not to run my country.
Lest we forget.
When the tea-party gatherings were happening, the national narrative on NPR and other State-controlled media stations were telling us, “THERE’S A LOT OF ANGER OUT THERE!”
Brian Mann obediently parroted that sentiment here on this blog, asking us why all those old, patriotic people were soooo angry.
Well, Brian. There seems to be a lot more anger out there, and you don’t seem to be too concerned.
No marching orders from on high this time, I guess. Journalism appears to be dead. Replaced by mind-numbed robots.
“They are not protesting all corporations. They are protesting corporate control of government. The job of corporations is to make money for their shareholders, not to run my country.”
True. Like the comments above that is why they belong in DC instead of NYC. But we love having them around. They seem like a fun bunch.
I can see where they are coming from but this is something that we have had since our government was founded. Lobbyists are not some new thing. If we get rid of lobbying for corporate entities than we need to get rid of the influence that other groups like the environmental lobby have. Is that somewhere that these people or the Bill McKibben’s of the world want things to go? It all depends on what you are fighting for. I think that many Hollywood moguls have undue influence on the current administration they way they trow money at the white house but they have rights also.
JDM: “NPR and other State-controlled media stations”. Well now, there ya go. Gotta admit, it’s hard to respond to something like that.
So who is the problem corporations trying to make money for their owners or the elected government selling their services to the highest bidder? Like I said they are in the wrong city. I am no fan of these guys, materialism is a disease that is really hurting this country but some rich guys greed does not hurt me, unless government is influenced in a way that hurts my life.
Mark, Saranac Lake:
What would you call, when a report has to report according to a national dialog, rather than report the facts?
If one does not look at occupied Wall Street as displaying “anger”, one is not able to be unbiased.
Mark, Saranac Lake: (correcting typos)
What would you call it, when a reporter has to report according to a national dialog, rather than report the facts?
If one does not look at occupied Wall Street as displaying “anger”, one is not able to be unbiased.