Video: Occupy Pittsburgh ‘Flash Mob’ Storms Target
- Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:08pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Facing a Sunday deadline to vacate their encampment, Occupy Pittsburgh demonstrators nevertheless stormed a local Target retail store Saturday in protest of the company’s hiring practices.
Protesters in the “flash mob” chanted and marched inside the store for about 10 minutes before dispersing, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Among their gripes was the company’s policy of hiring part-time versus full-time workers, the newspaper said.
Police were on the scene but no arrests were made.
Video posted online shows a noisy crowd of protesters marching from the store’s entrance up to the main level, chanting at customers and employees who were caught off guard.
“What do we want?“ ”Unions!“ ”When do we want ‘em?“ ”Now!” protesters shouted.
Local media reports about the number of protesters that participated varied: The Post-Gazette described it as “nearly 100” while the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review pegged the number closer to 350.
According to the Tribune-Review, the march was preceded by a “human rights rally” nearby.
Occupy Pittsburgh has been ordered to vacate its park encampment by Sunday, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times. BNY Mellon, which owns the park, informed protesters Friday they must leave and said it will ask a court for an injunction if they do not.
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Comments (498)
RowdieGal
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:43pmDig in your heels, folks. This is war. The goal of these Occupy Wall Street protesters is to wear down the will of the American people. They are NOT the “99%” but are using Lenin’s strategy: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” They hope to stir up enough animosity and resentment among the working class so that more will join them. Those of us who oppose them are already marked as an “enemy of the people.” One cursory look at Stalinism exposes the insanity of that kind of thought.
I think the Millennials are lost in more ways than one. A few of them get it but most don’t and they think protesting Target is accomplishing something. Unfortunately, I think the truth will hit them only when they see the desolation and futility of their empty ideology in the form of a collapsed society.
Report Post »leftiessuck
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:49pmyea 99% bull that’s what.
Report Post »quiet little lamb
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 12:31pmthey have a two story target….ours are just one /sadface
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 1:39pm99% of all household germs.
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 3:42pmDon’t these people have lives?
Report Post »bddujmic
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 5:32pmYeah, two story Target’s. Pittsburgh is pretty much awesome :)
Report Post »Jase
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 5:50pmYep, these people are outright communists and they are on the attack. They have gone from protesting wall st to shutting down commercial ports to call for unionization at commercial stores. If they are allowed to continue they will only be emboldened. Obama’s army is forming.
Report Post »MSrebel
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 6:33pmThe only thing we should protest Target (and WMart KMart and all big box stores) for is buying crap from CHINA. The Commies are ruining this country one dollar at a time.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 9:55pmback in the early ‘90 when Target first came to the area …….my cousin went to get a swimsuit in Target. FIRST time in my life when I ever saw the bottom half sold separately from the top half!!!! that is right !!! they told her you want the whole suit…..you have to pay $20 for the top and $10 for the bottom….now who in the hell ever bought a bikini without one or the other?? Some idiot in CORPORATE HDQ figured this is a good way to shake down the stupid customer. The whole idea is so cheesy/rip off that she left and went to Marshalls and got a whole suit for $12. The ethics of corporations is so sleazy…….I have no sympathy. Tear them all down and bring back ‘HONEST MOM AND POP STORES!!!”
CORPORATIONS ARE NOTHING BUT RIP OFF ………with no customer service….got your $$$$$…got a problem with the merchandise????? they give you such a run around and a headache… ruin your whole day with bad vibes of a nightmare of customers service….you wish corporations would just fold up and get the F out of the US altogether…..pushing cheap shat..that is junk and land fill in one or two months. Fifty years ago US goods were the best…CORPORATIONS HAVE TAKEN US goods DOWN TO A THIRD RATE HEAP OF JUNK. They took our jobs…..they should just take their junk and get the hell out of the US…..BRING BACK MOM AND POP STORES…they are the best.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:00pmYou ever work for a store? I did when I was 16. SLAVE labor!! low pay. sell the suff …clean the store….no paid vacation….what you can’t stay when the boss wants you?? you better say yes because the byatch will fire you………in the mean time the CEO is pulling down billions as opposed to your measly $230 for the week………of grief…..oh and no health, dental or anything…..F MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND THEIR PREDATORIAL PRACTICES…….these are the same stores that pushed mom and pop out.
Report Post »jonpenn
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:31pmTheir slogan should be; What do we want? SHEEPLE! When do we want them? BEFORE THE ELECTION!
Report Post »RodT82721
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:38pmAnd out comes the union ties! Thugdome!
No one should be surprised, after all this OWS started in Canada, and Van Jones was up to his eye-balls in it. But progressives only have one real source of revenues, the unions with their workers and Congress! So the backing by union(s) was a given.
So now it’s time to pay up! Hit the bricks OWSers and chant the union lines! How long before they are set up in Wal-Marts all across the country? Do the unions hate any company more then Wal-Mart? All that success and they can’t get a dime of it!
All law enforcement have to do is enforce the laws! A few weeks in jail and a nice hefty fine will take the wind out of their sails.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:47pmThe worst thing is, now that all those dirt bags got in they are going to have to fumigate the whole store especially the linens for bed bugs, lice and other vermen………
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 2:35pmRODT thank you someone who makes sense they should be arrested for inciting a riot, do jail time and if caught again longer jail time it’s called time out for my 3 year old when he acts up for not getting his way or tough love
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 3:28pmWhy are business’s pressing charges. The right to peacefully (all be it smelly and disease ridden) doesn’t apply to performing these assemblies on someones PRIVATE property. It may be a business, but it’s still owned by and individual or corporate body. If they go through the proper channels and want to LEGALLY assemble on the street out front, that’s fine. The constitution affords them that right. It does NOT give them the right to bum rush a business and cause chaos.
I think that all these stores should adopt and post a sign stating that unclean, untidy individuals will be provided a bath upon entering. Then simply man a water cannon at the entrances and let the scurvy turds have it when they come barging in.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 7:22pmPart of the problem with law enforcement is the sympathy towards the OWS group by unionized law enforcement, add a somewhat sympathetic juidiciary (depending on the region) and the right thing becomes a muddled mess with laws meant to protect all being selctively enforced and then when they are enforced only because of pressure from all sides to do as little as possible. The laws are not being applied equally and that is part of the reason why so many of us (who value and respect the euqal application of the law) are so damn frustrated. I‘m certain the OWS and it’s leadship have calculated this reality into thier action plans. Let’s just say that so far, the right and conservatives in general have held the line through some really obnoxious and dificult times. We have been goaded, insulted, marginalized, called every name in the book, put off, put down , ignored, ridiculed by the MSM for years and yet the OWS has failed up until now to pick a fight it so desperately needs. We must not show understanding to these people…rather, some resolve to allow them to beat thier heads against what should be a brick wall. The ballot box can only do so much but through the ballot box (beginning with Nov2010) is the only real way we can positively affect change that cannot be easily blocked (by actions like the OWS, the Union thuggery in Madison etc). We must however put pressure on local officials to uphold what is right. That is how we fight back.
Report Post »tuesday24star
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 5:04pmin response to unions. We all know no one is going to jail because they’ve already been told not to by, shall I say…… Soros???? Or the Administration??? It’s all planned. But I just pray people wake up sooner than later. They just don’t seem to understand what it means for them personally yet.
Report Post »csbaby
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:38pmBarack Obama’s America.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:47pmMaybe they were all at Target to get the latest copy of Barry’s new book The sequel to Nightmares of my daddy..Which is Titled…. Barry’s Obama the nightmare of a community organizer…
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 1:55pmYes, very sad isn’t it.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 1:41pmDo these stinky OWSers really believe they’re making any friends at this point? Stopping workers from earning their pay? Stopping holiday shoppers from getting their responsibilities done in a timely and orderly fashion? Do they really think this is gettign them any support? All this will do is harden sentiment against them and polarize them further from Americans.
Report Post »dwilco77
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:22pmThis is actually the 1%, and they’re getting annoying, and expensive. Their interruption of commerce is hurting the same people they claim to represent. This is their goal – to break the bank of business and community.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:38pmWhat’s with the …Tent mascot …And what the hell is that flag…What is that…. the new world order flag a little commie a little Islamic a little gay a little black… Ok you know you have a mental disorder when you are marching behind a …frickin TENT…And it really….. always looks like the same Barry Obama zombies …
Report Post »Ortho
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:47pmWhere the hell do they get “ our store” ? Really, they think they own Target ?
Report Post »AmericanPatriot01
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 3:36pmThey bus them in from place to place. Find the buses and disable them. lol
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:41pmSome people march to Eagles, Bears and Dragons, these people march to… A tent? Wow, I guess you’re on par with the local boy scout troops, oh wait they actually know how to keep their tents and campgrounds clean. I can’t tell when to take them seriously and when to laugh hysterically, it’s all very confusing.
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:35pmthis is how the nazis started in germany
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:46pmAs I watched this I could only hear them screaming, “Four legs good! Two legs bad! Four legs good! Two legs bad!”
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:56pmNot to worry..The biggest difference between the German Nazis and the Obama OWS …The Nazis weren’t a bunch of lazy asses …I mean outside of marching around trying to look the part (very important today) .Sleeping all day smoking weed or getting high on crack in a TENT For the most part the OWS idiots wouldn’t have the ambition to build tanks planes and battleships ….Just saying ..
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 2:09pmneocon1 “this is how the nazis started in germany”
I agree it was the students, and they were not any different than today’s. Hitler started going after the the denizens of the Universities to stop them from overtaking his power base. No doubt the citizens were behaving like ‘AnOregonian’, saying ‘lets treat our fellow citizens with love’. Later they cowered in fear as the furnaces were being built. When our Generals were marching these citizens through the camps to make them see what they had silently allowed, I wonder if people like ‘AnOregonian’ were among them? I agree with Beck concerning the danger spelled out in ‘Rules for Radicals’ about their desire to force martial law to further their goals so for now we must do within the law what we can to avoid this scenario. Unless they back us into a corner. Americans who are Patriots are more dangerous than badgers if this becomes the situation and once again we are being underestimated by the enemies of freedom. While they may succeed in bringing in the one world system I have no doubt it will be Patriots who cause the breakup of this system. I believe Revelations calls this the ‘deadly wound’. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be shopping with your children and be deluged in intimidation and fear of possible violence by these thugs. Remember they chased children going to school in NY. The police must start taking a more aggressive role, ignoring the liberal politicians ( also criminals) who side with
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 2:13pmthese thugs.
Blaze you really need to improve your site.
Report Post »JoeA1010
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 3:40pmExactly, Kevin. Programmed idiots.
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 5:18pmYes … they are the “brownshirts”. They will be the first to be eliminated by their own “masters”. Fools.
Report Post »PitaJ
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 6:30pmAnimal Farm!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:35pmI always told my kids, go to college for something you can actually make a living at when you graduate, im willing to bet these occupiers have degrees in, art, yellow journalism, theatrics, and drama…. They would nt know how to find the working end of a hammer if you smacked em upside the head with it….. And thats not a bad idea either !!!!
Report Post »RULISTENING
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 1:19pmDon’t forget advanced degrees in Puppeteering, Fingerpainting, Musicology (WTF,?????) and Goat Herding. Liberal Arts…….no wonder they can’t find a job.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 11:24pmpsycology.
Report Post »TOMANYIDELHANDS
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:34pmStruggling to understand their reasoning……they don‘t like Targets policies so instead of finding employment with a company they do agree with their going to demand Target change it’s policies to suit their wants. Hmmm, I think half of their unemployment problem is themselves. I run a small business, it only takes a few seconds to decide if I‘m going to hire the person I’m interviewing. Their attitude makes all the difference.
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:37pm“Struggling to understand their reasoning”
The problem is they don’t “reason”.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 1:11pmBusinesses in my humble opinion throughout this once great country have bent over backwards for their workers. The worker in todays workplace enjoys more benefits than previous generations could dream up. These thugs will eventually move on to real anger when the system strains further under their weight. They will then be a in position to act with malice towards any business that does not go along with their views. Most businesses will close instead of giving in to their demands and thus the strain and downward spiral on the economy will be the undoing of us all. When that happens, all the fingers will be pointing at each other and civil War will be in the streets.
Report Post »TeaParty_RonPaul_R3VOLUTION
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:34pmthey hate capitalism, yet they want jobs. Only capital and investments creates jobs.
#occupy are so stupid, distrubing the peace and quiet. Rand Paul was right when he warned us about these fools breaking into stores and destroying property.
But nooooooooooooooooooo the TEA Party is so violent and hateful. The leftists are hypocrites.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:34pmWas holder or obama there leading their boys and girls?
Report Post »bringiton
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:33pmUm..Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Target a union ran company?
Report Post »completehorsesense
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:32pmAs it is written in the book of AMOS Chapter 5 (KJV) In the latter days those that are skillful in LAMENTING. They are hired by professionals
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:30pmUseless union pawns with that catatonic look on their faces, i still wonder how some people survive without a brain.
Report Post »Amazingoly
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:30pmHey union radicals – this is not the way to organize. You are a mob. Barnstorming and forcing your positions will certainly backfire. If Target wants to unionize, they will, and it won’t be because of your actions.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:28pmIf you want unions, risk your capilal , start a business and unionize it, see if it survives, oh thats right these punKs dont ever want to take a risk…. Work 24/7 to build a bussiness, but they love to share in the profits…. Then bankrupt it , lazy commie pigs……
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:42pmDittos……..Exactly.
Report Post »shabe
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 1:07pmDouble dittos – well put!
Report Post »AnOregonian
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:24pmIf the Occupy movement began to target Congress chanting “Pass the Stock Bill”
Maybe then……….
Report Post »BlesstheJews
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:24pmI‘ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If they are merely protesting, leave them alone. If they block traffic, arrest them. If they hurl objects at police or start destroying other people’s property and Businesses, SHOOT THEM!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Cthulu
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:31pmRight on!
Report Post »Totally Domestic
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 4:30pmThey weren’t merely protesting. They were breaking the law.
Report Post »People have a right to shop in peace. Especially the little
children who must have been terrified. Stop playing down what
these people are doing and giving them cover!
Salamander
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 11:43pmFree speech does NOT include the right to hold the intended audience hostage! Once the protesters reach a certain size relative to the forum (more for a park, less for a bus; more for an open sidewalk, less for a storefront; as much as 100% for a reserved space such as a theater or stadium, as few as one at a church service-depending on the interests of the others attending), those that choose NOT to listen become hampered in their efforts to avoid confrontation and become captive to the crowd. Free speech encroaches on individual freedom at the point immediately preceeding that size. We shouldn‘t have to codify the ’number’. When things get out of hand, a citizen complains and thnn the police enter the picture and make arrests and let the judge render an opinion. If there is a protest at my home and I cannot come and go freely, it isn’t about free speech; rather, it is about my freedom to come and go as I please and feel safe in my home, including arrival and departure.
Report Post »QuietTexan
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:24pm“dont want a part time job, GIVE me a full time job, at Union scale!“ Keeps bringing to mind the saying ”He’d complain if he were hung with a new rope.”
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:49pmWhat they don’t understand (because, I’d bet you, they don’t really think about it) is that hiring part-time instead of full-time employees, and paying lower wages/benefits than a union would require allows Target to hire more people.
So OWS/Lefties, why do want more unemployment?
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:57pm“It is highly probable that not more than one out of a thousand voters knows what economists say about the effects of minimum-wage rates, whether fixed by government decree or by labor-union pressure and compulsion. Most people take it for granted that to enforce minimum-wage rates above the level of wage rates which would have been established on an unhampered labor market is a policy beneficial to all those eager to earn wages. They do not suspect that such minimum-wage rates must result in permanent unemployment of a considerable part of the potential labor force. They do not know that even Marx flatly denied that labor unions can raise the income of all workers and that the consistent Marxians in earlier days therefore opposed any attempts to decree minimum-wage rates.”
http://mises.org/daily/5608/The-Revolt-against-Rationalism
Report Post »Erinc
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:23pmThese people are ignorant fools. I bet they don’t even know what unions are…
Report Post »wellhangingchad
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:23pmWhen will they clean out this ows trash?
Report Post »Tear Em Up
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:23pmIf they are storming into a store, aren’t they then a mob? Shouldn’t we, at that time, stop calling them “Occupiers”?
http://traffic.libsyn.com/mikeleeandterrymartin/Number_93_Dec._10th._2011.mp3
Report Post »dvwrld
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:21pmConceal and Carry NOW!
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:20pmWhat do you expect from a bunch of Steelers fans.
Report Post »Danielle Ohliger
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:23pmSix Super Bowls and three Stanley Cups — Pittsburgh is NOT a bad place to live!!
Report Post »Danielle Ohliger
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:29pmBy the way, we Pittsburghers (Steeler Fans) also have one of the best medical schools and hospitals in the country we also have some of the best researchers here who are helping to find cures for cancer and more information on autism, we also have Carnegie Mellon with their amazing robotics, computers and software research and creations! We also have PRAMANTI’S sandwiches! Just to catch you up on the fact that Pittsburgh has gotten a bad reputation for a very long time! At least we aren’t L.A. or Orange County!
Report Post »Blazedout
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 10:07pmAll of you people talking violence, this is wrong!
Put up or shut up.
It seems to me that the best way to fight back would be for the 53% to publicly declare that they are not part of that imaginary 99%. This could be done when the 53% and the Tea party of Pittsburgh flash mob the same Target and they should purchase a small toy or holiday food and donate them to a charity or be brave and be Secret Santas in Bad neighborhoods. You could probably get a police escort.
Repeat this type of response wherever these Lemmings go.
Let’s show the world who we really are.
What’s wrong with Tuesday at 6PM (6 PM because most of us have jobs)
Pass it on, if you really do care and are tired of just sitting and have felt helpless. Even just passing the message on will help.
Email your support to pittsburghteaparty@gmail.com.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:17pmHiring practices ?? Thinks this pretty much “outs” the union involvement in these “spontaneous” Occupies. Well, that and the anarchistic nature of all of these bully messes….
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 2:55pmUnions are like the Medieval Guilds. Towards the end the guilds started making wage slaves of the poor. Look it up.
For example the cloth makers guild demanded that to work, a person had to give up their shears. These are tools that were passed down from father to son. Well a person had to eat. By giving up the shears, it took away capital from other guild members & put them in the lower class permanently.
Guilds started out as good organizations to fight the nobles. Unions have started out good. tell me that is going to last.
Report Post »knockered
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:17pmThis is really disgusting to see these idiots disrupting regular people while they are out shopping. All these people are typical union people, thinking of nothing but their own desires and wants. It’s hard to believe that only 8 or 10% of the workforce is union but they can create so much noise. Puppets being led by liberal radicals going nowhere. What a useless group….
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:11pmI wonder how much stuff was stolen when they went in there to protest.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:49pmIt appears that blacks weren’t invited to this mob. They were doing it all wrong. Van Jones needs to open up more workshops.
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