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March 13, 2005
Save Our State Rally Against Home Depot Successful [Pics]

Protesters at the street corner in front of Home Depot

The Save Our State rally against Home Depot yesterday seemed to go off well. They were protesting Home Depot's support and work with La Raza, a group that is in support of returning the southwest states to Mexico. They were also protesting Home Depot's support and implementation of day labor facilities on their property for illegal aliens.

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Home Depot Employed Rooftop Spotters
The rally went off well with 75 supporters showing up. While they didn't accomplish their goal of clogging up the whole store -- in effect shutting it down they did get Home Depot's attention. Home Depot had a large quantity of extra employee's on hand, had rooftop spotters, undercover agents and apparently even infiltrators who posed as protesters and reported to the store management on their actions and locations.

The protesters also got the media's attention as CNN's Lou Dobbs Show appeared with cameras and several papers showed up including the Los Angeles Times and The Daily Bulletin.

Protesters in the parking lot in front of Home Depot

Save Our State
Earlier this week, Home Depot spokeswoman Kathryn Gallagher stated that she expected "business as usual" at their Rancho Cucamonga store in response to our demonstration.

Apparently, "business as usual" consists of placing spotters with walkie talkies and cameras on their rooftop, having "undercover" personnel film and follow various activists from our organization during the entire event. Business as usual also apparently consists of staffing the store with approximately 200 employees. There was nothing typical about Home Depot today.

Inside the store Home Depot had blocked off several aisles, had several employees stationed at the ends of each aisle and had two employees at each of the 15 registers.

Commenter SherriCorrell made this observation on the Save Our State message board after the protest.

It's astonishing how they brought in all the EXTRA people AS IF you, THE LEGAL U.S. TAXPAYING CITIZENS were the enemy INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL ILLEGAL INVADERS.

What a sad state this country is in.

A sad state indeed when top retailers of our country openly support illegal aliens and the breaking of our country's laws.

See also my previous entry on this protest where there was some heated discussion.

Other Commentary On The Protest:

Michael Williams
faute de mieux
You've Been Told
Darleen's Place who lives down the street from this Home Depot and plans to shop at Lowe's from now on.

Originally posted at Diggers Realm

Posted By Digger at March 13, 2005 04:45 AM | TrackBack

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