Ray Manzarek, keyboardist with the Doors, dies aged 74
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/20/ray-manzarek-doors-dies
Ray Manzarek, a founding member with The Doors whose keyboard work was a touchstone of hits like Break On Through to the Other Side and Light My Fire, has died at the age of 74 after a battle with cancer.
Les circonstances de ce qui a été présenté comme la première interview d’Hosni Moubarak depuis qu’il a quitté le pouvoir restent floues.
L’interview « fabriquée » par le journaliste selon l’avocat de l’ancien président http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/05/12/moubarak-donne-sa-premiere-interview_3175824_3212.html
La réponse du journaliste d’Al Watan
Reporter fires back at Mubarak’s lawyer, says ‘interview is real’ -http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/05/13/Reporter-fires-back-at-Mubarak-s-lawyer-says-interview-is-real-.h
Ayant le sentiment que l’auditoire de Seenthis aime bien le troll hirsute, je vous propose ce magnifique spécimen de classe internationale :
In speech at conference, Harvard professor implied economist lacked foresight because he was childless and gay
In his apology Niall Ferguson explained: ’I had been asked to comment on Keynes’s famous observation “In the long run we are all dead.”’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/04/niall-ferguson-apologises-gay-keynes
Will Obama keep Yemeni journalist in jail ? | Index on Censorship
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/will-obama-block-release-of-yemeni-journalist-again
The president of Yemen says journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shaye should be released from jail. Will Barack Obama stand between the reporter and freedom? Iona Craig reports
(Le journaliste yéménite Abdallah Shayi’ a été arrêté au Yémen en Août 2010 sur ordre étasunien, sous prétexte qu’il avait interviewé un militant d’AQ, en réalité parce qu’il rapportait les victimes civiles des frappes de drones.)
Seven months after the al-Majala bombing and following his criticism of both the Yemeni and US Governments, Shaye was abducted by Political Security Organisation [PSO] gunmen. Beaten and threatened before being released, in response Shaye went back on television. A month later, in August 2010, his house was raided by Yemen’s elite US-trained and funded Counter Terrorism troops. Shaye was once again beaten and tortured, according to the Yemeni human rights organisation HOOD, during 34 days in solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer or family members.
The Troubling Viral Trend of the “Hilarious” Black Neighbor
Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. (...)
Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.
cf- http://seenthis.net/messages/136658
Charles Ramsey, dernière victime de la mode du voisin noir « hilarant » signalé
Reporter Asks White House if U.S. Airstrikes That Kill Afghan Civilians Qualify as ‘Terrorism’ | Dispatches from the Underclass
http://raniakhalek.com/2013/04/17/reporter-asks-white-house-if-u-s-airstrikes-that-kill-afghan-civilians-
REPORTER: I send my deepest condolence to the victims and families in Boston. But President Obama said that what happened in Boston was an act of terrorism. I would like to ask, Do you consider the U.S. bombing on civilians in Afghanistan earlier this month that left 11 children and a woman killed a form of terrorism? Why or why not?
L’héritage pourri de Chavez contre Thatcher la combattante de la liberté : l’image fait le tour de la planète plusieurs fois par seconde en ce moment :
http://www.fair.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/economist.jpg
via :
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/17/thatcher-lifted-millions-says-who
La couverture sur Chavez n’a été – semble-t-il – utilisée que pour l’édition Amérique latine.
Titrer « The freedom fighter » est particulièrement cocasse puisque, dans la novlangue thatchérienne et reaganienne, les freedom fighters qu’ils ont systématiquement soutenu étaient des escadrons de la mort pratiquant le terrorisme, les enlèvements, la torture et le meurtre de masse. De fait, vu sous cet angle, le titre du Economist pourra paraître moins délirant.
T’ai-je déjà causé de Framework ? je ne crois point. C’est une crème de la crème d’émission sur #Resonance_FM, une #radio british de création, dont @syntone te cause ici :
http://www.syntone.fr/article-resonance-fm-10-ans-sans-prevenir-3-questions-a-ed-baxter-114886677.
et que tu peux explorer là :
http://resonancefm.com
Et Framework, donc, c’est une émission de #phonographie (#field_recording) et tout ce qu’on peut composer comme #paysages_sonores à partir de ça. Tu y entendras des gens qui enregistrent les villes, les grenouilles, leurs déambulations ou les machines - des #netlabels, des labels tout court, des producteurs indépendants. Les émissions sont en podcast sur un site dédié, et la dernière par exemple c’est
http://www.frameworkradio.net/2013/04/416-2013-04-14
Le ministre égyptien de l’Information fait une allusion à caractère sexuel à une journaliste.
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/04/14/minister-of-information-sexually-harasses-reporter
Despite U.S. concerns, little prevents Islamists from joining Syria fight| McClatchy
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/08/187983/despite-us-concerns-little-prevents.html#storylink=omni_popular
L’administration Obama peut bien exprimer verbalement ses préoccupations sur les extrémistes islamistes qui combattent en Syrie, mais ni les autorités américaines ni les alliés régionaux n’ont pris de mesures importantes pour endiguer le flot des djihadistes dans les rangs des rebelles.
Les corridors de passage des djihadistes - principalement via la Turquie, mais aussi par la Jordanie et l’Irak - sont un secret de polichinelle, d’après les entretiens ce mois-ci avec des combattants et des témoins, ainsi que des analystes qui ont suivi de près le soulèvement de deux ans contre le régime du président Bachar el-Assad.
Il serait difficile pour les agents de renseignement turcs et occidentaux de ne pas repérer les combattants étrangers - ils demeurent dans des maisons sûres, recrutent ouvertement des camarades et se singularisent souvent par un accoutrement et des habitudes distinctives - et pourtant il n’y a eu aucun effort manifeste pour réprimer leur présence dans les villes frontalières.
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McClatchy n’a pu trouver la moindre mention publique faisant état d’une arrestation de djihadiste présumé par les autorités à la frontière turque ou tout autre signe prouvant que les Etats-Unis faisaient pression sur la Turquie afin qu’elle se montre plus vigilante aux lieux de passage ....
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« C’est un peu comme Lincoln s’exprimant sur Grant : Je n’en ai rien à faire si c’est un buveur, il se bat », a déclaré un ancien responsable du gouvernement américain avec une vaste expérience du Moyen-Orient,...
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Une schizophrénie qui s’assume pleinement : la politique étrangère des Etats-Unis.
State Department calls rebel attack on Syrian army troops ‘terrorism’ | The Cable
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/11/state_department_calls_rebel_attack_on_syrian_army_troops_te
One reporter pointed out that the United States routinely targets and kills members of various groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan who are not physically engaged in the fight at the time they are targeted. Nuland declined to comment on the perceived double standard.
“Again, it depends on the circumstances,” she said.
Nuland also declined to confirm or deny a report by the German magazine Der Spiegel that Americans are training Syrian anti-regime forces in Jordan.
“I have nothing for you on that,” she said.
Le Français Remi Brulin: http://www.salon.com/2010/03/14/brulin
We [the West] don’t [want to have a definition of terrorism], because it serves our interests to not have the definition.
Très intéressant article sur (l’échec journalistique de) The National, le quotidien d’Abu Dhabi : The National : Abu Dhabi’s brief experiment in press freedom
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112542/national-abu-dhabis-brief-experiment-press-freedom
In May of 2011, The New York Times broke a big piece of news on The National’s turf: The U.A.E. had commenced with plans to raise a private army with the help of Blackwater founder Erik Prince. The purpose of the clandestine mercenary force was to “blunt the regional aggression of Iran” and “respond to terrorist attacks and put down uprisings inside the country’s sprawling labor camps,” the Times reported. At least two National reporters had been on the trail of that scoop, but were encouraged not to pursue the story, according to a former editor.
But even seemingly innocuous subjects became highly taboo fare. In February of 2010, for instance, a piece about Emiratis “embracing blogs” to address topics such as free speech and human rights was spiked because it was “too dangerous,” as an editor put it to Fattah in an email that was shared with me by a source. Fattah and his two chief deputies, Tion Kwa and Bob Cowan, spend much of their time poring over page proofs for any such offending copy, according to people who worked alongside them in the newsroom.
“The self-censorship was daily and severe,” said Nick Stout, who worked as a copy editor at The National until January of 2010. “There was just this pervasive paranoia. We avoided controversy at all costs and would shy from anything officialdom might find embarrassing or provocative in any way.”
(Noter au passage que le scandale absolu de la présence de mercenaires d’Erik Prince financés par les Émirats, n’a reçu quasiment aucun traitement dans les médias internationaux en dehors du NY Times, et a été largement occulté dans les médias arabes – je n’ai réellement vu passer qu’un article de Youssef Ashkar dans le Akhbar.)
Hé hé, Wikileaks au passage :
(A payroll spreadsheet leaked to WikiLeaks in March 2009 revealed that the editor-in-chief was making $430,000; the business editor $300,000; $60,000 for a lowly features writer.)
Une critique de la chaine Al-Jazeera et de son évolution, alors qu’elle va désormais être diffusée aux Etats-Unis
Al Jazeera Criticized for Lack of Independence after Arab Spring - SPIEGEL ONLINE
A prominent correspondent who, until one year ago, used to report in Beirut for the network, says: “Al-Jazeera takes a clear position in every country from which it reports — not based on journalistic priorities, but rather on the interests of the Foreign Ministry of Qatar,” he says. “In order to maintain my integrity as a reporter, I had to quit.”
Critics say that the emir now essentially trusts only his own people: The network’s director general is now a relative of the emir, as is the head of the advisory board. They are seemingly required to follow political guidelines laid down by the palace — instead of serving the interests of viewers. Thanks to its oil wealth, Qatar is blessed with the world’s second highest per capita income, and it’s a key geo-political player with a clear agenda.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/kristian-coates-ulrichsen/gulf-states-and-syria
Coverage of Syria on Al Jazeera increasingly became partial as the station focused on publicising regime atrocities while championing the largely-ineffective Syrian National Council.
A Most Peculiar Test Drive, by Elon Musk | Tesla Motors
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive
un journaliste du NYT teste la voiture électrique de Tesla Motors, et fait un bel article pour expliquer que c’est de la merde… mais Tesla avait enregistré toutes les données du parcours, et démonte point par point les mensonges du journaliste… jouissif !
#journalisme #automobile #voiture_électrique
rappel : « who killed the electric car ? »
#données #surveillance #propagande
http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/articlemap0.jpg
http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/speeddistance0.jpg
La réponse du journaliste du NY Times :
That Tesla Data : What It Says and What It Doesn’t
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/that-tesla-data-what-it-says-and-what-it-doesnt
La mayonnaise monte et ça devient un moment décisif dans le combat dantesque entre la presse et la blogosphère…
cf. http://seenthis.net/messages/114778
Roma in Germany forced into abject poverty - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/14/roma-f14.html
Roma in Germany forced into abject poverty
By Sybille Fuchs
14 February 2013
A recent report aired by the German public broadcaster ARD provided a shocking exposure of the contempt shown by local authorities and church institutions in the city of Dortmund for impoverished workers from southeastern Europe.
The extreme poverty in the countries from which these workers have emigrated—above all, Bulgaria and Romania—has been deliberately exacerbated by the policies of the European Union (EU). This, in turn, has acted as a mechanism to drive living standards down sharply in countries such as France and Germany.
Wilko Johnson interview: ’It’s a bloody good feeling being alive’ | Music | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/02/wilko-johnson-interview
When Dr Feelgood guitar hero Wilko Johnson revealed recently that he was dying of cancer, the outpouring of feeling for him was extraordinary. Here he talks about how it all feels
Wasalu Muhammad Jaco aka Lupe Fiasco crée la polémique :
« #FiascoGate: US rapper pulled off stage over inauguration anti-Obama rant »
http://rt.com/usa/news/rapper-us-obama-fiasco-409
American rapper Lupe Fiasco was thrown off stage by security guards as he performed a 40-minute anti-Obama song during a pre-inauguration event at a Washington, DC, concert hall Sunday night.
“Lupe Fiasco just got thrown off stage here at the Hamilton Live after he went on an anti-Obama diatribe mid set,” Josh Rogin, a reporter with Foreign Policy magazine, posted on Twitter.
During the concert, the singer played a lengthy anti-war song and told the audience he didn’t vote for Barack Obama, according to witnesses. When he was told to move on to the next song, he refused, and “a team of security guards came on stage and told him to go.”
The incident with Lupe Fiasco, born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, triggered a storm of comments on Twitter – the hashtag #FiascoGate became popular across the social network.
The Internet community clashed over what happened, with some asking why “it’s okay for Kanye West to diss George Bush, but it’s wrong for Lupe Fiasco to question Obama war policies.”
Extrait de sa fiche Wiki :
Political views
Fiasco is noted for his anti-establishment views. In an interview with Stephen Colbert on the satirical news show The Colbert Report, Fiasco stated his credo on political philosophy: “You should criticize power even if you agree with it.”[77] In another interview in June 2011 on the CBS program What’s Trending, Fiasco discussed the political content of his music, stating, “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama and the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists.”[78] He additionally criticized Obama for his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[79] In keeping with his anti-establishment views, Fiasco does not vote in U.S. elections.[77]
Vidéo du fiasco ici : http://www.nowthisnews.com/news/lupe-fiasco-rails-against-obama-inauguration-event
“And these the same people supposedly telling us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
That’s why I ain’t vote for him, next one either
I’m part of the problem
My problem is, I’m peaceful”
Admin Aids French Bombing of Mali After U.S. -Trained Forces Join Rebels in Uranium-Rich Region
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/15/admin_aids_french_bombing_of_mali
You know, I think one of the things that’s gotten lost in a lot of the talk about al-Qaeda and mujahideen and all of that is that—is the way that this conflict started. This conflict started with a movement of secular Tuareg separatists who rose up and demanded an independent state and who started to sweep down into the northern two-thirds of Mali to take over the area which they consider theirs. And they were shadowed in this operation by some other Tuaregs that had different views, more religious views, as well as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and some other actors. And, you know, together, sort of in an alliance not of the willing, they took over the area. And then, from that point on, the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the mujahideen, the local mujahideen who are allied with them, sort of took over the cities of northern Mali from the Tuareg separatists. So, I think, you know, the genesis of this whole conflict is the Tuareg people of northern Mali demanding a state, which is a very old demand, which goes back to 1963, of the first Tuareg rebellion.
And I think it also needs to be mentioned that France has very important economic interests, not necessarily in Mali, but in neighboring northern Niger, which is also a Tuareg area. And this whole area of northern Mali and northern Niger is a uranium-rich area, which is a Tuareg area, and which shares the same tribes going back and forth between the two, some of the same tribes, some of the same families even. And usually when you have a Tuareg rebellion or uprising in Mali, it spreads to Niger, and when you have one in Niger, it spreads to Mali, because they’re really all one people. And the Tuaregs, in general, have a kind of a national sense. I would compare them with the Kurds. They’re—they consider themselves one people, whether they’re in the Sahara of Algeria or the Sahara of Libya or the Sahara of Mali or the Sahara of Niger. For them, it’s just their homeland.
And so, you know, France has a huge economic interest in northern Niger. That is—northern Niger, Niger, is one of the world’s biggest reserves of uranium. France is—gets 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear power. And as we know, France is a major exporter of nuclear power, and it’s a major component of French’s—the France’s military-industrial entity. I mean, uranium, you know, the uranium from Niger, which is France’s former colony, really was a key for France in its own development. I mean, they developed their nuclear industry on the back of that very cheap uranium coming from northern Niger, which, by the way, Niger is one of the bottom three poorest countries in the world, according to the U.N. Human Rights—U.N. Human Development Index. I mean, it has one of the world’s most important resources, and yet it’s one of the poorest. Northern Mali also has a large amount of uranium, and the whole area has been divided up into exploration concessions, and there are a number of companies that are just waiting for the chance to get in there. And also gold and oil.
Invasion of the Data Snatchers - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/opinion/keller-invasion-of-the-data-snatchers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_2
By BILL KELLER
January 13
YOU are the editor of a local newspaper. A reporter on your staff comes to you having obtained (by legal means) one of the following:
Related:
• Police records of arrests for drunken driving;
• The personal details of all the employees of local clinics that perform abortions;
• The subscriber list of a survivalist magazine with pronounced racist overtones;
• The names and addresses of food stamp recipients in your community;
• The donors to a group that promotes L.G.B.T. rights;
• The names of husbands accused of infidelity in divorce suits, along with the identities of the alleged lovers;
• Addresses of homes where pit bulls are kept.
The reporter proposes to publish the names and home addresses and map them on a large graphic, all part of an article on “The [drunks/abortionists/racists/poor/gays/cheats/scary dogs] next door.”
Some of these lists might strike you as fair game. (Many community newspapers publish D.U.I. arrests, presumably to shame the accused into driving sober.) Others probably make you uncomfortable or indignant. You might find that the tricky part is articulating why: what is the boundary between a public service and an invasion of privacy?
#presse #média #information #data #internet
cc @fil
À lire intégralement !
“The Obama administration’s position on privacy is basically ‘Trust us, we’re good guys,’ ” said Daniel Solove of George Washington University, whose book “Nothing to Hide” challenges the myth that law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from government snooping. “That’s exactly what Bush said. And it’s also the same thing that any despot says. We shouldn’t have to trust.”
Par ailleurs, je découvre l’affaire de Steubenville. Ça mérite une entrée à part entière.
Steubenville —> je regarde, mais vu que je suis plombé pour quelques jours tu peux t’y coller...
A propos de « trust us », dans une de mes confs, je développe la question des « données produites par les autres » et la « confiance qu’on a (ou qu’on a pas) dans les autres ». Je souligne la relation très indirecte entre ce que représentent les données et les utilisateurs des données qui « doivent » faire confiance aux producteurs (c’est un pré-requis, soit il a confiance et il utilise, soit il n’accorde pas son crédit et il n’utilise pas). Parce que l’utilisateur n’est pas sur le terrain, le travail sur les données repose avant tout sur la confiance qu’on accorde aux producteurs. mais comment mesurer le sérieux ? la crédibiité ? la méthode de calcul pour arriver à la donnée ? —> Difficile, trop souvent on se repose sur ce qu’on reçoit, et on se dit bah... « I trust it »
Revue de presse sur la #Chine semaine du 31.12.12
Un #journaliste du New York Times #expulsé de Chine
Article partiellement en français :
http://www.rue89.com/2012/12/31/un-journaliste-du-new-york-times-expulse-de-chine-238238
Article total en anglais :
http://shanghaiist.com/2012/12/31/nyt_reporter_chris_buckley_expelled.php
A Eulogy for #Occupy | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all
On the night of Nov. 15, they hadn’t merely shot the messenger. They’d done that too, but they’d beat the people that had come back from the future with lifeboats. Like Anonymous and Piratbyrån https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratbyr%C3%A5n before them, OWS was a messenger from the future, not so much fighting the system as explaining to the old way of doing things that it had already lost. That future, still nebulous, soaked into the nondescript stones of Zuccotti. But the old world around us had rejected the message from the new world, never understanding that theirs was a mission of mercy to the lost.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/12/signs-dc-660x440.jpg
Je signalais il y a un an l’immersion de Quinn Norton ►http://seenthis.net/messages/39525 , voilà qu’elle en fait le bilan.
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/8870/al-masry-al-youm-goes-inside-the-brotherhoods-tort
Opposing protesters were brought to the chambers after being detained by Brotherhood members, who beat them and tore their clothes. The chambers were informal and it was unclear how many there were; when someone was detained, a chamber would be established anywhere near a building.
The kidnappers would take the detained person’s ID card, mobile phone and money before beginning “investigations,” which included intervals of beating to force the confession that he or she is a “thug.”
Sex for tuition fees anyone? Students being offered up to £15,000 a year to cover cost of university, in exchange for having sex with strangers - Crime - UK - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sex-for-tuition-fees-anyone-students-being-offered-up-to-15000-a-year
The website SponsorAScholar.co.uk claims to have arranged for 1,400 women aged between 17 and 24 to be funded through their studies by wealthy businessmen seeking “discreet adventures”.
Man behind ‘sex for tuition fees’ website is named - students were offered up to £15,000 a year to cover cost of university - Crime - UK - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-behind-sex-for-tuition-fees-website-is-named--students-were-offer
The man uncovered as running a “sex for tuition fees” website has been named after being secretly filmed.
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An undercover reporter recorded a meeting with the man who told her that sponsorship was dependent on a “high level of sexual intimacy” with men in two-hour sessions in hotel rooms up to four times a term.
#Geoengineering - Science fiction gets real : a special report | Lateline
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3639093.htm
who has the capacity to do this? Well, I mean, there’s really only one answer and that’s the #military.
So, whoever has their hand on the thermostat is going to have an enormous amount of power and is also going to attract an enormous amount of hostility. My best guess is that it will be #China that does it. This has not been revealed yet, but within the last few weeks the Chinese Government included for the very first time geo-engineering research in its top 12 scientific research priorities.
(...)
There’s no doubting the scarily epic nature of such interventions.
CLIVE HAMILTON, CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY: To seize control of the climatic system of the Earth as a whole. This is a massive proposal that humanity is starting to talk about. (...) When you consider the almost total failure of the global community to respond to the science of climate change with anything like the urgency that the science suggests ... I think geo-engineering is virtually inevitable.
(...)
Russ George remains unapologetic about his experiment. He says there’s no time to wait for an international treaty.
RUSS GEORGE: I don’t see that happening before the oceans die. Right? The Royal Society of England came out a few years ago and said that by the year 2050 there’d be no harvestable fish left in the ocean. So I don’t think we have time.
Protests hit Walmart stores
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/walm-n26.shtml
26 November 2012
Protests were held at Walmart stores around the United States on November 23 opposing management abuse, irregular working hours and the poverty wages the giant retailer pays its 1.4 million workers. The protests were timed for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year.
It is still not clear how many Walmart workers walked off their jobs and joined the protests. According to Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart), which organized the events, 100 stores in 46 states were hit by the demonstrations. It appears selective groups of striking workers at various stores were joined by demonstrators organized by unions, liberal and religious groups to pass out leaflets to store customers.