May Day Protesters Turn Destructive: A Response from Entrust
Yesterday was “May Day,” or International Workers Day, which is an international holiday set up to celebrate the labor movement. Occupy Wall Street protesters took the opportunity to use May Day as a way to advocate on behalf of laborers by protesting income inequality and unjust corporate practices. While we at Our MCA Funding Company believe that the protesters’ hearts are in the right place and we do believe that there needs to be a major restructuring of the way that Wall Street operates, we disagree with many of the methods the protesters used to get there message across this past week.
In Seattle and San Francisco, May Day Protesters took to the streets and literally destroyed the storefronts of many small businesses throughout their city. San Francsico’s Mission District took a major hit, as protestors deliberately caused damage to their local businesses. According to SF Gate,
The vandals damaged restaurants, bakeries and clothing stores, along with at least 17 cars on Valencia and Guerrero streets. An expensive Aston Martin had its windshield shattered, but the protesters damaged everyday cars as well.
A similar situation occurred in Seattle, where a group of protesters who called themselves the “Black Bloc,” destroyed cars and businesses with crowbars, hammers, sticks, rocks, and other dangerous object in an apparent attempt to get their message across. The chaos resulted in violence and, ultimately, 8 arrests by the police.
The obvious question here is: how can you advocate on behalf of workers and “the little guy” and simultaneously destroy the small businesses in your city? What did the Mom and Pop shop do to deserve to have its window smashed in? Those businesses feel the effects of the bad economy every day – they are on your side. Plus, now they will have to seek out additional financing for their business to pay for the damage. To add to this, many of these businesses currently find it impossible to get business loans from big banks for the very same reasons that the protesters are raising hell in the first place.
So our request is simple: by all means, take to the streets and raise awareness when injustice occurs. But do us a favor and spare the small businesses – they are hurting too, and the last thing they need is unexpected costs to pay for with money that they probably don’t have.
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