Philadelphia Union to Hold Troubling Chick-Fil-A Giveaway

You, also, won't get rid of poverty if you sit around and say nothing can be done. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Also, unemployment and poverty are far higher than they have been in the past in this country as the 1% having largely enriched themselves through what has become a globalized, totalitarian capitalist structure, which is why your resignation to poverty in the world seems rather disingenuous as it assumes systematic problems are general, universal problems in this world. With that in mind, I would say we should also target Target (pun not intended) and Starbucks for their practices, but considering neither of them are partnering with the Union for a game, why would I discuss that on this forum.

Before anyone misconstrues me, I am not calling for a Marxist revolution or saying we should be burning CFA to the ground. I'm not trying to change anyone's political views or convince anyone that their desired economic system is a load of shit. All I am saying is that Union have partnered with a company that does not pay a fair wage and financially supports anti-LGBTQ organizations. Now, i don't want my partner with such a company, hence why I started this thread and hence why I think we should be calling the Union out on their hypocrisy, especially considering the fact that our organization is run by a man who likes to lie to us and exploit us for money.

Actually, I do think we should protest those companies. However, are the Union partnering with Walmart, Target, McDonald's, or Starbucks? Then why are they relevant to a debate about whether we should call the Union out for partnering with CFA? Also, why are you red-washing us with Marxist terminology when we (at least I, myself,) are not Marxists? Could it be that someone doesn't have a valid response and has to change the tone and topic of the argument as a result?

 

Back to the topic at hand: is there any consensus on what people want to do? I'd rather do something rather than nothing as I'd rather Philly fans not be known as passive fans who ignore the club's actions.

Someone ideas thrown around (including some of my own):

1. Everyone who disagrees should email the Union so as to show how much of a backlash there is.
2. Protest outside the game.
3. Have a LGBTQ pride night and maybe invite Robbie Rogers or David Testo.
4. Storm PPL Park, lynch Nick Ballsack, redistribute the team's resources, and cut Danny Cruz.

Haha. Thanks. Politics and arguing are my bread and butter.

 

We could, but I think BSP's head would explode.

 

Also, to those who oppose this thread or doing anything against CFA, just don't click on this thread, and let those of us who disagree with this partnership discuss plans on what we want to do in response. I'd rather actually plan this out than have to argue with multiple people about the validity of our views.

 

You're right. I just wanted to refocus this topic on it's actual purpose.

Messaging sounds like a good idea, but I just wanted to be able to attract anyone interested who an email or PM may miss.

Anyone interested in organizing some type of a response to this should PM me, and we will figure out communication/what we will do through that.