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news/classifieds Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com Occupy Promotes Shopping Mom-and-Pop on Black Friday by nigel duara and Christina rexrode The associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Occupy protesters want shoppers to occupy some- thing besides door-buster sales and crowded mall parking lots on Black Friday. Some don’t want people to shop at all. Others just want to divert shoppers from big chains and giant shopping malls to local mom-and-pops. And while the actions don’t appear coordinated, they have sim- ilar themes: supporting small businesses while criti- cizing the day’s dedication to conspicuous consump- tion and the shopping frenzy that fuels big corporations. Nearly each one promises some kind of surprise action on the day after Thanksgiving, the tradition- al start of the holiday shop- ping season. In Seattle, protesters are carpooling to Wal-Mart stores to protest with other Occupy groups from around Washington state. Washington, D.C., is offer- ing a “really, really free market,” where people can donate items they don’t want so others can go gift shopping for free. Others plan to hit the mall, but not for shopping. The 75-person encampment in Boise, Idaho, will send “consumer zombies” to wander around in silent protest of what they view as unnecessary spending. In Chicago, protesters will ser- enade shoppers with revamped Christmas carols about buying local. The Des Moines, Iowa, group plans flash mobs at three malls in an attempt to get people to think about what they’re buying. “We didn’t want to guilt- trip people at a mall,” said Occupy Des Moines organ- izer Ed Fallon. “We wanted to get at them in a playful, friendly way, to support local businesses.” Protesters say the move- ment shouldn’t take away money and seasonal jobs from the working-class majority it purports to repre- sent. The corporations, not the shoppers, are the focus movement, which presents itself as pushing back against corporate power. “If you ask, a lot of small business owners identify as business owners, not specif- ically small business,” said Protestors around the country plan creative statements against consumerism of any protests, they say. But organizers do hope their actions drive people to reconsider shopping at national chains and direct their attention to small, locally owned stores. That may not fly with small businesses wary of any association with the DIRECTOR Jean Card, spokeswoman for the National Federation of Independent Business. “I would like to believe there is a silver lining, but I don’t picture a frustrated con- sumer that can’t get into a box store turning around and going to a small busi- ness. I see that person going home.” Another shop local move- ment, Small Business Saturday, was started last year to encourage people to shop at small businesses on the day after Black Friday. But the Occupy groups are underwhelmed, since Small Business Saturday was started by American Express. “It’s just another example of the banks and Wall Street trying to take the very real desires of working people to have a humane economic system and twisting it to their ends,” said Peter Rickman, an activist with Occupy Milwaukee. 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