Hundreds Of Anti-Ice Protestors Brought Their Home Depot To A Halt Just By Buying And Returning 17-Cent Ice Scrapers
Hundreds Of Anti-Ice Protestors Brought Their Home Depot To A Halt Just By Buying And Returning 17-Cent Ice Scrapers
Hundreds Of Anti-Ice Protestors Brought Their Home Depot To A Halt Just By Buying And Returning 17-Cent Ice Scrapers This weekend, Californians across Monrovia and Burbank formed long lines outside of their local Home Depots — not to shop for the holidays, but to participate in a unique protest. Led by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the protest involved customers buying and immediately returning 17-cent ice scrapers, a move that disrupted sales and led to a chaos of mass returns at registers. It was a move meant to boycott the home improvement chain in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s increased presence at their stores. Hundreds of people participated in the “ice scraper” boycott, which also involved picketing in parking lots with chants of “ICE, ICE, out of Home Depot!” “The message is clear: Scrape ICE off your properties!” NDLON shared in an Instagram post. “This is a necessary escalation. Home Depot has ignored the harm for too long. We will not. ICE i…