Pizza for Protesting Workers

It's been a long weekend at work and I don't have any sort of TV service, but I just found, and love this:

Ian’s Pizza in Madison: 30 states/5 countries buy pizza for workers!
Posted on February 20th, 2011
Incredible story from Ian’s Pizza, on State St. in Madison!

They are only serving the workers rallying in Madison and have shut down normal operations; you can call and buy a pizza too:

608.257.9248 - Ask for Protester Pricing!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150...

This is astounding! As of right now, Ian’s Pizza on State’s normal in-store and delivery operations are on hold — due to the high volume of calls, we are only processing orders donated to the protesters. By our (rather harried) count, we’ve heard from 30 states and 5 countries (including Korea, and our northern friends, Canada). Wow.
Thank you!
To our regular customers: We really apologize, but… wow.

 And now this from Politico ...irony is not dead:

In an act of intercontinental solidarity, an Egyptian has ordered a pizza for Wisconsin protesters, reports Politico. The call from Africa is just one of many streaming into the Madison, Wisc., pizza parlor Ian's from all over the world. So far, people from 12 countries and 38 states have rung up looking to help get free pizza to the Wisconsin protesters clustered in the Capitol. On Saturday, Ian's distributed more than 1,000 free slices and sent 300 pizzas to the Capitol. The trend continued on Sunday, as staff member fielded calls from as far away as Turkey, Korea, Finland, China, and Australia. The trend began when a mother of a University of Wisconsin student called in offering to donate $200 to feed the people occupying the Capitol. The pizza chain's postings on Twitter and Facebook soon led to so many donations that they had to shut down on Saturday night.
Read more: http://slatest.slate.com/id/2285906 /

It's nice to see American people waking from a long slumber taking to the streets - and being supported around the country and the world. Even Egypt.

And so it goes.
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