{"id":42034,"date":"2014-11-14T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=42034"},"modified":"2014-11-14T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:13:05","slug":"walmart-workers-launch-first-wave-of-holiday-season-protests-with-historic-sit-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/11\/14\/walmart-workers-launch-first-wave-of-holiday-season-protests-with-historic-sit-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Workers Launch First Wave of Holiday Season Protests with Historic Sit-Ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141114Uprising\/2014_11_14_evelin_cruz.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Evelin Cruz <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141114Uprising\/2014_11_14_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/walmart_sitin.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Walmart workers upped the ante yet again with a sit-in \u2013 the first of its kind \u2013 at a Los Angeles area store in Crenshaw yesterday \u2013 the same store where the first protests against Walmart for retaliation took place two years ago. And, later, yesterday evening, workers launched a second sit-in, at another Southern California Walmart store in Pico Rivera. That sit-in resulted in the arrest of 23 workers and organizers. <\/p>\n<p>The group Our Walmart led both protests, and is made up of current and former Walmart workers and union organizers who have organized walkouts and demonstrations over the company&#8217;s poor labor for the past two years. Yesterday&#8217;s sit-ins represent an early chapter of protests planned for the holiday shopping season. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Evelin Cruz, recently fired Walmart worker, who participated in the sit-ins <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart workers upped the ante yet again with a sit-in \u2013 the first of its kind \u2013 at a Los Angeles area store in Crenshaw yesterday \u2013 the same store where the first protests against Walmart for retaliation took place two years ago. And, later, yesterday evening, workers launched a second sit-in, at another Southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42044,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42034\/revisions\/42044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}