A decade-long sea change in the world’s largest retailer has transformed Wal-Mart from solely a purveyor of cheap Chinese goods into a behemoth whose business model and profits now rely on groceries, much of it sourced within our own borders. But while the shift towards what the company insists is “locally sourced” foods may sound [...]
WALMART INVOLVEMENT IN GARMENT FACTORY FIRE THAT KILLED 112 BANGLADESHI WORKERS? BETTER CALL OUR “ETHICS” DEPARTMENT FOR SOME PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY. The retail giant takes this stance since some of its Faded Glory brand clothes were found in the ashes. Walmart is heavily dependent for its cheap prices on the cheap and unsafe labor conditions [...]
FOOD ABUNDANCE AND SCARCITY: FEEDING OUR FOOD TO OUR FOOD. Frances Moore Lappe enters a Thanksgiving reflection on the irony that the world produces enough food to feed world population, but much of it gets wasted in ways that prevent its consumption in nutritional forms. Among the ironies of the agri-business mode of [...]
DON’T WORRY. THOSE PESKY AGGRIEVED WALMART EMPLOYEES WON’T HAMPER YOUR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING SPREE… ` The mega-retailer faces its largest labor protest to date as union groups and frustrated current employees vow to organize a nationwide walkout at Walmart stores on the day after Thanksgiving. So-called “Black Friday” is the most important day of [...]
VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT IS NOT JUST ABOUT VOTER ID LAWS. Although they’ve received the lion’s share of media attention and legal activity, efforts by states to impose new voter ID requirements before this Election Day are hardly the only methods being used by lawmakers and government officials to cut down on the number of Americans [...]
THE FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT RELATING TO THE BP GULF OIL SPILL DISASTER ARE BROUGHT AGAINST…A LOW-LEVEL ENGINEER?!? (Pro Publica) The good news? After more than two years, the Justice Department has finally filed the first set of criminal charges in BP’s catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oli spill, the worst single [...]
ONE-THIRD OF PEOPLE OF INDIA LIVING IN POVERTY; AND THAT’S A LOW-BALL ESTIMATE. (UK Independent) In this country of 1.2 billion people, the government defines the poverty level as an income of 42 pence, a level called “ludicrously low” by skeptics. For all of India’s vaunted development of a prosperous middle class, the benefits of [...]
IS THE WEBSITE “PEOPLE OF WAL-MART” (POW) REALLY FUNNY? (Dissident Voice) Not so much, thinks William Hicks who sees the site as yet another manifestation of the attitude toward the unfortunate featured in “reality shows” like COPS. The site refers to those who shop at Wal-Mart as “loosers,” suggesting that their aberrant behavior, like that [...]
The United States Supreme Court handed down two controversial decisions on Monday that, together, embody the rightward shift of the court and the hesitation of justices to oppose some of America’s largest corporations. The most important ruling from the Court on Monday was in a blockbuster case involving a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart alleging [...]
By Margaret Kimberly (Courtesy Black Agenda Report) Walmart is making its big push on New York City, five years after overcoming furious resistance from labor and progressives in Chicago. Although Walmarts destroy more jobs than they create, working people are so desperate, the odds are in the huge corporation’s favor. “The political climate of acquiescence [...]
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