Anti-Wall Street protesters took their message about corporate greed Black Friday shoppers, occurring in commercial areas throughout California in one of the busiest days of the year for retailers and bargain hunters.
In San Francisco, a dozen people in Tony and Union Square tourist signs used to spread a message against consumerism. One of them, age 9, Jacob Hamilton, held a sign that said: "What's in your bag that is more important than my education?"
Some of the protesters occupying the movements in San Francisco and Oakland clashed with police when the car briefly blocked the city's iconic cable until the officers pushed them off the street.
In the afternoon, some of the participants in what protesters called "Do not Buy the day All" sat in the middle of Market Street, the main avenue of San Francisco, and blocked traffic while chanting, "Let go of shopping and join us! "
"I wanted so much to us to be here for the kids," said protester Steve Hamilton, a writer who traveled to the city of Winters, California, with his son Jacob. "I do not see how the lack of education directly affects the schools, how teachers struggle with so many children in the classrooms and the lack of books is not just for this generation.".
Down the street from the massive Macy's Union Square San Francisco, Celia Collins of New Orleans buyer, said he worked hard to earn her MBA and pay your student loans. She had every right to enjoy Black Friday, he said, and protesters would be better off working within the system to find jobs and support the economy.
"I think they're a bunch of whiners ...", Collins said, clutching her shopping bags as she watched the protesters march on Stockton Street. "I do not envy them the right to do, but I do not think they really, really smart."
A group of about 20 protesters marched in Sacramento Occupy from a park to a small outdoor shopping center where many stores are empty. A police officer on a bicycle lost in the crowd.
A few buyers bewildered, many armed with large shopping bags, paused to look at the crowd as they read a manifesto calling on people to support local merchants.
Michele Waldinger, 57, a retired lawyer who used to work for the Small Business Administration in the U.S., said he joined the group to lend his voice to the effort to restore occupy a social safety net and get influence companies outside the U.S. policy.
"I support the motion, the support to get money out of politics and support people to shop locally," he said.
The group marched in Macy, entering near the clothing department for women.
"We are here today to ask your local shop and support our local economy," the group leader, a man who identified himself only as a brother Carter, read through a megaphone. "And not reward the top 1 percent, department stores like Macy company, whose profits enrich the top 1 percent, while they pay almost nothing for their workers, 99 percent."
The group stayed in the store for several minutes chanting slogans such as "This is called profit; we call it theft." Several buyers surrounded take pictures with cell phones.
"It only took by surprise that Macy entered," said Beronica Jones, 39, of Reno, who wore a Gap bag. "I think it is good for people to hear when you are shopping for Christmas, when we are consuming."
After most of the crowd had cleared the store, two young women wore buttons Macy approached one of the protesters to ask what his expression was that. One explained that it was to draw attention to workers who do all the work, but not participate in the profits.
The employee nodded in agreement.
A manager at Macy threatened to arrest a reporter for The Associated Press before he could ask for the names of employees or the manager.
Betsy Nelson, Macy spokesman, declined to comment on the statement of the group that the chain is between the "1 percent". Nelson said Macy usually asks the media to go before reporting in their stores, but apologized for the manager who threatened to arrest journalists.
"We are a place where people buy. Not necessarily a place to protest," he said.
Along with the identification of new targets of protest, people with more energy Movement is established campaigns.
In Emeryville, a small town in the San Francisco Bay has been transformed from a manufacturing area to a shopping destination, more than 60 people attended a Native American community protest 10 th Black Friday Street Mall Bay.
Corrina Gould, a principal organizer for the Indigenous People Organizing for Change, said the goal is to educate buyers that the mall was built in 2002 in a sacred Ohlone burial.
About a third of people in the protest on Friday came from neighboring Oakland Occupy the movement, and Gould, said the new voices was invigorating.
Jesse Smith, an Oakland protesters occupied, flyers encouraging shoppers went shopping instead of supporting local businesses in downtown Oakland to help "keep the black."
In San Francisco, a dozen people in Tony and Union Square tourist signs used to spread a message against consumerism. One of them, age 9, Jacob Hamilton, held a sign that said: "What's in your bag that is more important than my education?"
In the afternoon, some of the participants in what protesters called "Do not Buy the day All" sat in the middle of Market Street, the main avenue of San Francisco, and blocked traffic while chanting, "Let go of shopping and join us! "
"I wanted so much to us to be here for the kids," said protester Steve Hamilton, a writer who traveled to the city of Winters, California, with his son Jacob. "I do not see how the lack of education directly affects the schools, how teachers struggle with so many children in the classrooms and the lack of books is not just for this generation.".
"I think they're a bunch of whiners ...", Collins said, clutching her shopping bags as she watched the protesters march on Stockton Street. "I do not envy them the right to do, but I do not think they really, really smart."
A group of about 20 protesters marched in Sacramento Occupy from a park to a small outdoor shopping center where many stores are empty. A police officer on a bicycle lost in the crowd.
A few buyers bewildered, many armed with large shopping bags, paused to look at the crowd as they read a manifesto calling on people to support local merchants.
"I support the motion, the support to get money out of politics and support people to shop locally," he said.
The group marched in Macy, entering near the clothing department for women.
"We are here today to ask your local shop and support our local economy," the group leader, a man who identified himself only as a brother Carter, read through a megaphone. "And not reward the top 1 percent, department stores like Macy company, whose profits enrich the top 1 percent, while they pay almost nothing for their workers, 99 percent."
The group stayed in the store for several minutes chanting slogans such as "This is called profit; we call it theft." Several buyers surrounded take pictures with cell phones.
"It only took by surprise that Macy entered," said Beronica Jones, 39, of Reno, who wore a Gap bag. "I think it is good for people to hear when you are shopping for Christmas, when we are consuming."
After most of the crowd had cleared the store, two young women wore buttons Macy approached one of the protesters to ask what his expression was that. One explained that it was to draw attention to workers who do all the work, but not participate in the profits.
A manager at Macy threatened to arrest a reporter for The Associated Press before he could ask for the names of employees or the manager.
Betsy Nelson, Macy spokesman, declined to comment on the statement of the group that the chain is between the "1 percent". Nelson said Macy usually asks the media to go before reporting in their stores, but apologized for the manager who threatened to arrest journalists.
"We are a place where people buy. Not necessarily a place to protest," he said.
Along with the identification of new targets of protest, people with more energy Movement is established campaigns.
Corrina Gould, a principal organizer for the Indigenous People Organizing for Change, said the goal is to educate buyers that the mall was built in 2002 in a sacred Ohlone burial.
About a third of people in the protest on Friday came from neighboring Oakland Occupy the movement, and Gould, said the new voices was invigorating.
Jesse Smith, an Oakland protesters occupied, flyers encouraging shoppers went shopping instead of supporting local businesses in downtown Oakland to help "keep the black."
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