Stand With Striking Walmart Workers on Black Friday (VIDEO)

Stand With Striking Walmart Workers on Black Friday (VIDEO)
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FILE - In this May 16, 2011 file photo, the Wal-Mart logo is displayed in Springfield, Ill. The world's largest retailer is throwing its doors open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, two hours earlier than a year ago. It's also guaranteeing shoppers that it will have three of the most popular items it sells if they line up inside the store during a one-hour event that day. AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
FILE - In this May 16, 2011 file photo, the Wal-Mart logo is displayed in Springfield, Ill. The world's largest retailer is throwing its doors open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, two hours earlier than a year ago. It's also guaranteeing shoppers that it will have three of the most popular items it sells if they line up inside the store during a one-hour event that day. AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

The Walmart strike, which originated in Los Angeles, has spread to 12 cities and counting. A series of strikes will occur next week that has the potential to paralyze the world's largest retailer on the biggest shopping day of the year.

A United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) official says employees will stage 1,000 unique protests around the country on Black Friday. In additional to walkouts, there will be flash mobs, and other creative protest aimed at "educating" shoppers on the Walmart workers struggle to attain a fair and decent wage and working conditions.

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