Wal-mart
January 11, 2006 -
Last August, country crooner Garth Brooks signed an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart to sell his music only through the chain. American Rights at Work has this hilarious, low-tech flash parody of Garth's hit song.
January 11, 2006 -
Wal-Mart wants to expand its headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., and they want local tax money -- i.e., money used for schools, job training, etc. -- to pay for it, according to Arkansas Daily Blog:
December 2, 2005 -
That's one way to describe what happened to Reginald Pitts, a black customer who tried to buy materials for his roofing company at a Tampa-area Wal-Mart. Store managers held him for two hours for check forgery, but it took police only 19 minutes to realize he'd done nothing wrong:
November 21, 2005 -
Last week was a national week of action targeting Wal-Mart, led by the 400-member coalition Wal-Mart Watch. Thousands of events probing the worker, human rights, environmental and other problems of the Arkansas retail giant were held across the week, including screenings of Robert Greenwald's new documentary, "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price."
November 15, 2005 -
Posted by R. Neal
November 13, 2005 -
If you're in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina,
November 12, 2005 -
In coordination with "Higher Expectations Week" -- a national campaign aimed at Wal-Mart's corporate practices -- the Institute for Southern Studies, along with the NC Justice Center and Independent Weekly, is hosting theater