Why Wal-Mart? There's a lot of different ways you can answer that question. You can talk about the negative impact they have on their workers. You can talk about the terrible effects they have on the community or the nation.
But maybe this is the best way to understand:
You're talking about a company with the economic power of Standard Oil and the values of Big Tobacco.
-- Chris Kofinis, Wake-Up Wal-Mart. video source from Change to Win
I was invited to attend a screening of the movie sponsored by the Newbury Democratic Town Committee with special guest speaker Gov. Mike Dukakis at Newbury Elementary School in Newbury, MA. Congressman John Tierney (D-MA) was also in attendance and spoke briefly.
Follow me below the fold for all the video, a bit about the movie and what citizens all over this country are doing to take their communities back from a company with the values of Big Tobacco.