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Protest at VISA Headquarters in Foster City, CA
On March 8, demonstrators delivered a petition of 150,000 signatures collected with the organizing help of UltraViolet, Courage Campaign and DailyKos. Their demand of Visa: stop processing sales of assault weapons. Photos courtesy UltraViolet.
While Congress lines its pockets with money from the NRA, women and children are being gunned down, and companies like Visa must do their part to stop the violence, said protesters in front Visa headquarters in Foster City. They lamented that Congress has failed to act, but said that companies around the United States have taken action after Parkland and other mass-shootings, some companies severing ties with the National Rifle Association, others restricting sale of weapons in their stores to individuals 21 and older, and some even going so far as to stop selling assault weapons entirely. They said that Visa must follow suit.
On March 8, demonstrators delivered a petition of 150,000 signatures collected with the organizing help of UltraViolet, Courage Campaign and DailyKos. Their demand of Visa: stop processing sales of assault weapons.
Members of the group of about 25 protesters said they hoped for an immediate answer from Visa and were there to push Visa to prioritize lives over profits.
On March 8, demonstrators delivered a petition of 150,000 signatures collected with the organizing help of UltraViolet, Courage Campaign and DailyKos. Their demand of Visa: stop processing sales of assault weapons.
Members of the group of about 25 protesters said they hoped for an immediate answer from Visa and were there to push Visa to prioritize lives over profits.
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https://weareultraviolet.org
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Because IF they could, rather ominous.
This may be very unlike VISA saying that they were preventing use for buying cryptocurrencies. They MIGHT (probably are) implementing that by not allowing use at the cryptocurrency exchanges. They CAN block a vendor, allowing no transactions with that vendor, simple. And that works because ALL an cryptocurrency exchange deals in is cryptocurrencies.
But suppose I go to the drug store, buy a number of things, perhaps including prescription drugs, perhaps pregnancy test kits, perhaps ..... you get the idea. Or to the supermarket, buying my groceries for the week. And I pay with the VISA card. I certainly hope that VISA just gets the total bill amount and NOT a list of the individual items that made it up.
See the problem now?
This may be very unlike VISA saying that they were preventing use for buying cryptocurrencies. They MIGHT (probably are) implementing that by not allowing use at the cryptocurrency exchanges. They CAN block a vendor, allowing no transactions with that vendor, simple. And that works because ALL an cryptocurrency exchange deals in is cryptocurrencies.
But suppose I go to the drug store, buy a number of things, perhaps including prescription drugs, perhaps pregnancy test kits, perhaps ..... you get the idea. Or to the supermarket, buying my groceries for the week. And I pay with the VISA card. I certainly hope that VISA just gets the total bill amount and NOT a list of the individual items that made it up.
See the problem now?
Fatuous argument! It is Quite possible for VISA to refuse to process just the transactions for assault weapons without disclosing purchase of the other items in anyone’s shopping cart!! So obvious this is the statement of defender of capitalism in all likelihood a corporate hack. Google search lead you to this anti-capitalist website, hmm?
It's not the guns that kill. It's the widening disparity, and lack of opportunity.
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