Working Families for Wal-Mart has launched a blog aimed at attacking anyone who dares to question Wal-Mart’s poor policies. It’s called paidcritics.com and it is a terrible response to the growing number of Americans who are waking up to Wal-Mart’s negative impact on America.
Wal-Mart’s ‘swift boat’ style blog, a first for a corporation of this [...]
In celebration of July 4th, WakeUpWalMart.com is asking Americans to declare their independence from WalMart:
“We, the American people, hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Americans are created equal and all American workers have certain unalienable rights, including the right to a living wage, affordable health care, and a safe and just workplace.
To secure [...]
For the last three years, George Washington Universty’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet has awarded the “Golden Dot Award” to the “Best National Internet Campaign” from the previous year. The Dean for President campaign won the award in 2004, and the Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign won in 2005.
A few weeks ago, the 2006 Golden [...]
NYT story:
“Under assault as never before, Wal-Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting topics for postings and even inviting them to visit its corporate headquarters.”
For more info: Wake Up Wal-Mart.Com
NYT Story about how they really feel abouth health benefits:
In his response to the store manager who asked about retiree health benefits, Mr. Scott wrote: “Quite honestly, this environment isn’t for everyone. There are people who would say, ‘I’m sorry, but you should take the risk and take billions of dollars out of earnings and [...]
The Chicago Tribune discusses the high cost of low prices in a book review ….
“Few issues in American life, except perhaps the war in Iraq, are as polarizing these days as how Wal-Mart sits in our landscape, our economy and our consciousness …
Take salmon. Wal-Mart, which buys all of its salmon from Chile, sells [...]
… and the “dark bargains of the global economy.”
Two books about Wal-Mart reviewed in today’s CS Monitor.
“But America now confronts a creation that grew from a simple idea to a social test. “What changes is the scale,” writes Fishman, “what changes is the intangible – the power, the impact that comes with scale.”
What was [...]