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From YouTube: In response to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s Wall Street Journal op-ed opposing single-payer health care and a public option, Single Payer Action and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union picketed the P Street Whole Foods in Washington, D.C.
The Boycott Whole Foods Group was started on Facebook just over one week ago — and we now have over 23,000 members. The Boycott Whole Foods page on Facebook is up to 25% of the corporate ‘fans’ page members in a week. Money talks. Send them a message.
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“Putting my money where it counts!” she writes. “For anyone living in the Southwest, Sunflower Market is an awesome, MUCH cheaper alternative to Whole Foods.”
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From http://www.singlepayeraction.org/blog/?p=1370
Picket Whole Foods Friday
Last week, Single Payer Action called for a nationwide boycott of Whole Foods.
Why?
Because with 60 Americans dying every day from lack of health insurance, the CEO of the company, John Mackey penned a diatribe against a single payer health insurance reform — the only health insurance reform that will both control [...]
Rally to tell Whole Foods to Support Health Care Reform!
CEO John Mackey thinks being healthy is for people who can afford it.
Details under the jump.
[F]ans of Whole Foods Market, a US counterpart to Waitrose, were stunned last week when the chain’s founder and chief executive officer John Mackey came out firmly against Barack Obama and the Democrats’ plan for universal healthcare, in an article on the staunchly conservative comment page of the Wall Street Journal.
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From today’s Washington Post:
“A lot of people have been paying a premium for the Whole Foods brand for years,” said Mark Rosenthal, a playwright living in Massachusetts who founded the Boycott Whole Foods group a few days ago. It has nearly 14,000 members. “A lot of people are sad to look at this corporation and [...]
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From CNNMoney.com:
Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey is known for his tendency to shoot from the hip.
This time, Mackey may have shot himself — and his company’s brand — in the foot by getting too personal on the very public issue of health care reform which has sparked calls to boycott the grocer.
“Certainly when our customers [...]
John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on August 12, 2009 quoting Margaret Thatcher and suggesting that healthcare is a commodity that only the rich, like him, deserve.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
Whole Foods has built its brand with the dollars of deceived progressives. Let them know your money will no [...]
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