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Brazil’s Homeless Send Email and Flash Mob Grocery Stores
Hm. Interesting. Brazil’s homeless have their own activist group called The Movement of Homeless Workers.
Of course they’re pissed about the global financial crisis. The government is bailing out the banks and they’re not getting squat. In protest, hundreds of homeless stand around in the grocery stores carrying checks with forged signatures. They also walked out with food after “paying” for it with the checks. Not sure if the grocery store was humoring them or if they were scared of a beatdown by axe wielding homeless.
The Movement of Homeless Workers, the group behind the protest at nine supermarkets in seven states, said in an e- mailed statement that the economic slowdown threatened to increase hunger and poverty unless the government helped the most vulnerable. The coordinated occupation of the supermarkets was the first of its kind in Brazil, it said.
I’m curious to know what kind of e-mail the homeless like to use. I imagine they have free email, but do they use Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail?
Gmail, which was previously invite-only is far too “elitist” for a homeless email. It also speaks “I am so tech-chic that I use Gmail”. What it definitely does not speak is “I’m Homeless”. Homeless using Gmail would be sort of like CEO’s from car companies flying to D.C. to ask the government for a $25 billion dollar handout.
Hotmail - seriously, who takes Hotmail seriously? I don’t even care if it’s personal mail from Sarah Palin, if it says @hotmail.com it’s going straight to my Spam or Delete box. But thankfully for Sarah, she uses….
Yahoo. It’s the solid, positive middleground. It’s noticable yet doesn’t say “I’m an Elitist free emailer” or “What’s a computer?”. What it says is “I found free email from a company who may end up as financially screwed as I am.“
