At first, I thought I had caught operatives executing Cobb County’s final solution to homelessness. But then, a team of white men appeared, distributing bright orange vests, signs, and bullhorns — and it became clear to me that someone, somewhere had outsourced their protest to the homeless.
Sure enough, minutes later one of the organizers hollered for attention, explained how to hold the picket signs, and stepped the newly assembled crowd through a practice session of “Hey! Ho! [Insert protest target name here] has got to go!”
If the laborers protesting labor practices at the new Lowes’ Hotel and Office complex on Peachtree are too busy working to come protest those practices themselves … how bad can conditions really be?
I’ve seen and read about this before. A labor union wants to protest __________, so they hire people at minimum wage to without benefits to do that for them. I think it makes real protests less effective.