Submitted by anon (not verified) on Tue, 09/15/2020 - 11:55
This is from an article in the Berkeley CA anarchist newspaper' Slingshot,' in early 2012, in reference to the day of the so-called Oakland General Strike of Nov. 2011, which grew out of Occupy Oakland:
" The admirable and exemplary targeting by Black Bloc youth of windows of a store of the despicable market-libertarian-owned Whole Foods Market chain during the 2 p.m. "anti-capitalist" march points the way to where the Occupy movement must now go; into a much deeper involvement with the everyday life struggles of the mainstream wage-slave class in capitalist America, from a public, highly visible, aggressive anti-market/anti-money/anti-wage labor perspective.
Some of the specific forms this might take are:
1. Borrowing from the tool kit of rebels in Chile and Egypt, and using so-called social media to initiate some kind of autonomous, widespread, sub rosa workplace resistance among employees of Whole Foods Market Inc.
With its combination of a large number of non-union employees, abysmal wages, frantic working conditions, and a creepy, Scientology-like workplace management psychology, Whole Foods is an easy to hate enemy -- and is just dying to be targeted. The right kind of ongoing bare-knuckle direct action against Whole Foods can become a template for similar actions against other retail sector exploiters..."
This is from an article in the Berkeley CA anarchist newspaper' Slingshot,' in early 2012, in reference to the day of the so-called Oakland General Strike of Nov. 2011, which grew out of Occupy Oakland:
" The admirable and exemplary targeting by Black Bloc youth of windows of a store of the despicable market-libertarian-owned Whole Foods Market chain during the 2 p.m. "anti-capitalist" march points the way to where the Occupy movement must now go; into a much deeper involvement with the everyday life struggles of the mainstream wage-slave class in capitalist America, from a public, highly visible, aggressive anti-market/anti-money/anti-wage labor perspective.
Some of the specific forms this might take are:
1. Borrowing from the tool kit of rebels in Chile and Egypt, and using so-called social media to initiate some kind of autonomous, widespread, sub rosa workplace resistance among employees of Whole Foods Market Inc.
With its combination of a large number of non-union employees, abysmal wages, frantic working conditions, and a creepy, Scientology-like workplace management psychology, Whole Foods is an easy to hate enemy -- and is just dying to be targeted. The right kind of ongoing bare-knuckle direct action against Whole Foods can become a template for similar actions against other retail sector exploiters..."