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Former ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis Leads ‘Church’ in Singing ‘Walmart Sucks’

New York City’s overall unemployment rate is still above 8.5%, with a jobless rate among African-Americans reported to be nearly double that number. The economy is in such awful shape you might you might expect the locals to celebrate the news of Wal-Mart’s plan to open a store in the NYC area, bringing jobs and affordable shopping to the local community. That did not happen.

Instead of supporting a company that wants to invest in NYC and her people, groups like ACORN have organized support to fight Wal-Mart’s plans. This is nothing new as ACORN and its union friends (SEIU and UFCW) have organized protests and picketing at Wal-Mart locations around the country.  In some reported cases, the hired picket line walkers who were supposedly marching in support of a unionized work force and a ‘living wage’ were paid less than Wal-Mart employees just a few feet away.

That kind of hypocrisy seems to fall right in line with the May 1st (May Day) appearance of ACORN‘s former CEO at the weekly performance of ’Reverend Billy‘s Church of the Earthalujah’ show in New York City. (For the non-NYers, Reverend Billy and his church are not real. He is a performance artist/activist, and his ‘church’ is just his latest money-making idea. )

Former ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis Leads Church in Singing Walmart Sucks

Here Ms. Lewis leads what appears to be a NYC church in singing the old gospel standard, ‘Wal Mart Sucks’

(h/t VerumSerum via BreitbartTV)

Reverend Billy‘s organization is also known as the ’Church of Stop Shopping’ although their web site offers many different Reverend Billy products for you to purchase.

Comments (118)

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:41am

    I love Walmart! I save 50.00-100.00 per week on my grocery bill thanks to their low prices.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:40am

    The amazing thing is how they sucker these folks by adding God to it. It makes me sad for the ones who would be happy to have work. Reminds me of the old fable “the dog in the manger” Didn‘t want the hay but didn’t want anyone else to have it either. Acorn is a plague on our country-we need to out it at every turn and fight them to the ground.

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  • LukeAppling
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:26am

    Bertha Lewis is a stooge for marxists and other anti-American groups. She is a consumate liar who was trained by Obama when he was a community organizer. Perhaps Bertha, Van Jones, Obama, Jesse, Sharpton would all move to Haiti and fix that country?

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  • hflndrs
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:09am

    If you don’t like Wal-Mart don’t shop there.

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  • Tony
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:06am

    The “ACORN” people, with access to tax payer dollars through the stimulus Bill and this Administrations’s discretionary use of funds coupled with its network of committed communists, remain very serious threats to the nation. They will continue to pop up all across the nation under various names and slogans but with the same intent, the destruction of capitalism and our “Republic” form of government.

    Are many aware that the administration is once again pressuring banks to make more “subprime” loans, the very thing that brought the housing bubble? Where the “corpse” is there the vultures will gather”. We will do well to look for “Bertha” because trouble is not far behind.

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  • powhatan
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:00am

    It is like **** roaches are coming out of the woodwork. Ew

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:54am

    Let’s get down to the bottom line. What upsets the left wing about Walmart is that it is not unionized. It doesn’t matter that by a large majority the employees do not want to unionize. Their prices do not matter, their public service does not matter, how it treats it’s employees does not matter. What matters is that they are not unionized. Should they become unionized they could jack up their prices, sell garbage, and they could treat their employees like trash, and the left would have no problem with them. The whole “driving mom and pop stores out of business” argument is a red herring. They could care less about that business and if they have to shut down because the competition, well, as they say, “that’s business”. All I can advise is that the smaller business do something that will still bring in customers. In the small town I live in there is a grocery story and a hardware store. I go to them instead of Walmart when possible because I like the personal service I receive there and the friendly atmosphere. I am willing to pay the somewhat higher prices because of that. I certainly would never advocating shutting down the local Walmart in order to keep these stores open though. Competition.

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:37am

    Hey On The Bayou, you forgot the straw hat and peach snuff.

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  • thermonator
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:31am

    I support these peoples right to spend as much money as they want on the things that they buy.

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:30am

    Wow. Just, wow. Politics is their religion, and their politics……..wait for it…….SUCKS.

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  • Theoneandonlybetmatrho
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:28am

    Acorn people are the most ignorant people on the planet and should not be allowed to speak unless spoken too. What jerks.

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  • Russell Rider
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:24am

    This is so (Retarded) it’s hard to respond.

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  • the point
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:21am

    It seems as though any business or any individual in the US that is successful, that far left
    is against them. Another group that is the same..Al Quada..

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:08am

    You mean they are the lowest of the high price after they went up to a higher price.

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  • Libby Tarian
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:05am

    If your working for Walmart then you don’t get to be on welfare and food stamps and medicaid and unemployment. Bad Walmart, Bad !

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  • I_Hate_Libs
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:00am

    Now I know I have seen it all Democrats oppose to saving money.

    The horror of the Democrat mind.

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  • LastAmerican
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:57am

    Just look to your leader for the jobs you low life slob. You need to go to walmart and get some clothes,then get a real job. Sponge.

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  • BrownBear
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:55am

    As always:
    “fighting” the opportunity to better oneself.
    Recruiting the ignorant to “fight” their own prosperity and enlightenment.
    Perverting the righteous causes.

    There are a lot of biblical proverbs that describe exactly who these lazy and perverted people are.

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  • Utah_Carl
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:52am

    The good thing is that Bertha and the others are so obvious in their contempt for this country. Our country.

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    • TheLeftMadeMeRight
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:41am

      They are obvious to the informed, but to their audience they are looked up to as leaders. Remember the 80/20 rule. They don’t need to convince the 20% that know the truth…

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  • jeffyfreezone
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:43am

    What VILE people! I have been buying a lot of things for care pkgs for Marines of late. Wal Mart’s low prices help make that possible. This women and others like her should be ashamed of themselves, but I guess the left has no shame anymore.

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:08am

      SHAME for someone who ran ACORN? You’ve GOT TO BE KIDDING! This communist, self serving person doesn’t have the remotest idea of what shame is comprised of.

      Evincing shame out of her would be tatamount to having Mao Tse Tung falling to his knees and praying to GOD for forgiveness for killing several million of his own people.

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  • starman70
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:42am

    Once a COMMIE, always a COMMIE!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:54am

      Thats Obama’s X and you wondered why things are going down hill

      Where is Rev. Wright? Oh yeah under the bus

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  • jew001
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:39am

    Finally she was promoted! Her next step …prison barber?

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:45am

      That looks like Madcow beside her. She has probably been practicing on her hair.

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    • BONETRAUMA
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:56am

      looks like someone hit a few 7 irons off the side of her stupid head

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  • NC
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:39am

    I thought ACORN went away (and changed their name)

    My first thought the the Reverend Billy bio was the movie “Elmer Gantry” starring Burt Lancaster.

    NC (put this movie your netflix cue}

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:38am

    Slight hypocrisy here! We had our yearly ‘Walk for the Cure’ last weekend in a small town in FL. The employees of Walmart raised the most money $7,000+ ($5,000 donation by Walmart). If that happened in a “small” town in FL, imagine that happening in towns across the US. All of us have been touched by cancer in some way. How much money has SEIU, UFCW or ACORN donated to the cause? Members of unions, do you have any idea what the ‘bosses’ are doing with your hard earned money? If people working for Walmart are unhappy with their pay, there is always someone waiting to take their place, and they can earn unemployment. Bertha, go pound sand and take your theatrics with you.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:44am

      The Wal-Mart near where I live at donates goods and bakery items to the small food bank where I do volunteer work at; many of us in the area could not survive for long without the lower prices offered at the store. So I get to see the good side they provide in the community; the protesters of ACORN just are upset for the loss of control they would have happen over the store coming into their domain.

      Morning Grandmaof5, hope all is good today, allergies still killing me mega time. Will be glad once the bloom season of the trees is done.

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    • jeffyfreezone
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:45am

      These unions only spend their money on slimy politicians or in the rathole that is community organizing!

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:56am

      Morning, SNOW, sorry to hear your allergies are still giving you a fit. Hope they will go away very soon! I also didn’t mention that Walmart donated a 55″ flat screen TV for my husband‘s club to raffle for the ’Walk’. His club raised almost $6,000. I hope union members wake up soon and realize they are being used as pawns in this administration. They have the numbers to walk away from their unions.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:24am

      @Grandmaof5:

      Two thumbs up for Wal Mart indeed.

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    • Code_Orange
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:37am

      I always stop to talk to the “greeters,” those cheerful sprites who manage to pay their monthly (sometimes weekly) bills due to the benevolence of WAL-MART, and they often say they feel truly blessed by Jesus.

      The Waltons are Super-Humans just like John Galt and Dagney, and our whole country is blessed by their superior plan for us.

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  • Code_Orange
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:38am

    This article Sucks! Who except whiner brietbart follows old retired radicals! Why do we say the left is “fixated” on Sarah and certain others when we continue to obsess on has been retirees?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:45am

      I do not think we are as you say “fixated” on retirees, the fact is we have another case of ACORN radicals stirring up trouble in yet another guise. These groups change costumes and apperances without changing message or means of achieving their ends.

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    • lcam67
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:55am

      @ snow
      exactly right , change a name or a slogan . but the result they are looking for is the same. i honestly can not take it anymore. HYPOCRITES !!!!

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:58am

      Somebody get Bertha a bottle of Colt Malt Liquor and a cane poll. Let her do some bream fishin, maybe she feel better. That`s what the old black folks down here do. She out of her element that`s why she so angry. All her peoples down here loves Wal-Mart.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:15am

      Acorn Hole. nuf said.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:17am

      Add your comments

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:22am

      Sorry to report that in addition to Wa Mmart’s generosity Wal Mart retailers are serious capitalists, ruthless, and non conforming. They want to put the local 100 year vendor out of business and will do so by a practice called “price dumping”. Wal-Mart can control the price of goods sold by dumping it down while others(small retailers) cannot. Wal-Mart has both the manufacturers and the consumer by the neck.. I know this first hand. I cannot compete with Wal-Mart selling hard goods. Their buying power is too great.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:23am

      Orange moomoo???, Tipical, Inoway in hawaii will marry you.

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    • Rickfromillinois
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:34am

      You often make complaints similar to this. Why don‘t you just tell the truth and admit that you don’t like it when the Blaze brings to light just how off the wall and radical your extreme left wing liberal leaders are?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:46am

      Why would someone get offended that the brietbart is every vigilant in his monitoring of the radical socialist in our society who have an audience. Oh yeah roaches hate the light

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:52am

      Don’t these people have anything better to do than stir up trouble? After a while this gets really old. They claim to be working for the community, but the people that I see who help the community are the ones who have jobs and help others, not sing songs.

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    • AmeriWoman
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:03am

      She’s got more cajones than Obama!!!
      These people make me laugh, what a load of idiots.

      @On The Bayou…. you said it. LMAO! ^5

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:14am

      Bertha is so inspiring. She seems filled with the spirit — yeah, right. And surrounded by so many useful idiots. She’s come a long way, since her many TV appearances on behalf of ACORN. Hahaha!

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:38am

      Shes another commie, touting socialism in this clip. She also complains about the wages and working conditions. The employees are glad to have a job Im sure, and work no harder than those of Target or Sears. Walmart brings a higher standard of living to people who need to watch their money. I love walmart. Her “REAL” problem with Walmart is it is NON UNION. Commies dont like that.

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    • PubliusII
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:51am

      PA Patriot, I also compete with WalMart and really there is no competition at all. I sell a high end product of which they sell multiple cheaper versions, most likely made in China. They can neither service nor warranty their offerings, I can. I can list an infinite number of goods for which this is true, but here are a few examples, furniture (my local super Walmart sells some cheap household furniture but I also have a local dealer that sells quality Amish made furniture, much more expensive but worth every penny and made here.), sporting goods (i.e. golf clubs, bicycles, fishing gear etc.), clothing, and the list goes on. I can however buy basic necessities and trinkets at great prices at Walmart because they are as you say “serious capitalists”. It seems to me this is a much more efficient economic system than having a “mom and pop” operation for every basic product. It allocates both labor and capital to its highest and best uses. If you have evidence that the existence of a Walmart harms any local economy in which it is located I would love to see it.

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    • BIGDAN63
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:20am

      I bet Wlamrt is where she bought all her moomoo’s from

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:59am

      @ PUBLIUSII
      “If you have evidence that the existence of a Walmart harms any local economy in which it is located I would love to see it.”

      There is plenty of evidence. Ask the Independant Grocers Association, Ask the Independant Phamacists that took Wal Mart and super box stores to a Superior Court in Philadelphia …. And WON their case against unfair trade pratices.

      Tell me that Wal Mart profits stay on a local level and I will really have a good laugh.

      “After careful economic survey of your town’s economic environment one or more Wal Mart stores are built. Wal Mart with economies of scale, a surplus war chest for cut-throat competition and advantages in the import of foreign produced goods, Wal Mart focuses on driving each locally owned or domestically owned competitor out of business. People may not want to shop at Wal Mart but their own budgets and deflation which makes “making ends meet” progressively more difficult forces them to give in sooner or later. Only after the local competition is bankrupt will prices climb to monopoly pricing levels.”

      There is much more http://www.rense.com/general92/stealth.htm

      Bottom line is that Wal Mart buys Chinese products and sells them a undercut cost of American products, thus costing America thousands of jobs and billions in lost local revenue.

      Take a look at the coal region communities in Central PA. Scranton, Lock Haven, Williamsport,

      I live in a municipality where Big Box Stores are banned by

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:30am

      .
      Don’t these people ever go away?
      What’s next? Rev. Wright nominated to the Supreme Court?
      Jeez, I hope Obama doesn’t read this, I don’t want to give him any ideas.

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 11:56am

      i agree with Snowleopard … These people don’t have Principles or Values …
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/5662306007/in/photostream/

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 12:33pm

      Listen, code orange, we know you’re a leftie troll, so just stfu.

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    • We Are Not Alone
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:07pm

      The free market is a thing of beauty…… Bertha’s bashing of Walmart is a surprise…. since it helps the very people that she claims to CARE about…. it gives them more buying power & employ’s a lot of people….. it does hurt the corner store but …… we have a choice whether to support Walmart or the corner store. I don’t think Walmart is a bad guy.

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    • gotta light
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 3:30pm

      Cafeteria Christians…. Always picking different things off the menu…
      You just know they worship the baby abortion jesus! And I support their right to a self inflicted genocide! Please lets give Planned Parenthood mo` money so they can help these nuts finish the job, I’m sure the baby abortion jesus would not mind….

      Question: Wheres the most dangerous place for a black baby?
      Answer: In it‘s mother’s womb! Only 1 out of 3 make it out alive.

      Hey bud gotta light?

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    • theteaishot
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 4:15pm

      I love Walmart and do not like or trust ACORN the maker of presidents.

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    • Code_Orange
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:28am

      Miss Leopard:

      There is no more “ACORN.” It does not existany more! It was successfully stamped out, and it was one of our biggest Tea Party inspired success stories of 2009.

      Just because some seniors have “liberal” and “progressive” feelings is no reason to hate an elderly sister! This is less like news and more like high blood pressure incitement.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:46am

      Hey orange just because you remove canacer doesn‘t mean it won’t spread else where. That’s why america needs to watch “the sister” you so want to keep hiden from the light of truth.

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    • STUBBYK
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 9:15pm

      It‘s called a moomoo because it’s made to fit a cowcow.

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    • Glenn in Virginia
      Posted on May 14, 2011 at 3:59pm

      Because they are a consistent source of amusement.

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