Hershey Corporation to Lay Off Hundreds - While CEOs Rake in Profits

The Hershey Corporation makes things from Hershey's kisses to Peanut Butter Cups. Dispite their candy image, their corporation is run by a CEO that is on the board of, or President of, McDonalds, Kraft, Pillsbury, and is also the Chairman of the Grocery Manufacturers of America. The GMA is a lobby group that works to expand the comerical market for multinational foods.

Hershey is set to lay off hundreds of workers in the US and move a lot of it's operations to Mexico. While thousands are marching to protest racist immigration laws and the affects of NAFTA and neo-liberal capitalism on immigrations, something like what Hershey is doing can perhaps point out to many workers in the US how interlinked these struggles are. If you are near a Hershey plant, want to flyer or post this up, or use it as a starting point for other action, go crazy! However, the flyer is made to be based upon what is happening near Modesto, in the small town of Oakdale CA, so make changes if you so desire. To print, simply copy and paste onto a word document.

With great revolutionary zeal - Modesto Anarcho Crew www.geocities.com/anarcho209 - anarcho209@yahoo.com

Some of the people responsible: www.nndb.com/people/811/000126433/

Hershey Board of Directors: http://www.thehersheycompany.com/about/directors.asp

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We live in a truly sick world, when the CEO of Hershey’s, Richard Lenny, who made $6.6 million last year, is now going to lay off close to 600 people in the small working town of Oakdale CA. People spent their entire lives working in one place and just like that, someone that they have never even met has completely changed their lives for the worse. People across the world have built up the Hershey corporation, but of course it’s the shareholders and rich bastards who make the decisions for us. Now the factory is going to be moved to Mexico, to take advantage of cheap labor, and low working and environmental standards. It will use up all the resources and people it can and then move on to the next town. To the next pool of victims and use them up until there’s nothing left.

The global economy which was supposed to raise everyone standard of living has instead lowered it - while at the same time making the rich richer and more powerful. Oakdale was built on chocolate. From the yearly festival to the Hershey museum. But now all that’s over. All that’s left is us and them. Let us hold no illusions towards our relationship between the Hershey bosses, their property, or their corporation - they are the enemy.

Wage slaves everywhere wait for your response - be it sabotage, strike, or simply revenge. Against their production lines and time clocks - let’s take back our lives once and for all!

Solidarity!

More information about Richard Lenny and who he represents and stands for (and thus some possible ideas for action): http://www.nndb.com/people/811/000126433/ Also check out: http://kissesforhershey.blogspot.com/

For more on some of the ideas expressed in this flyer: www.prole.info

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