Tampa WARN, the Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now, spent some time over the last year building a powerful coalition in Orlando — churches, unions, environmentalists, ACORN, civil rights groups, and others — and then did the work to figure out how Wal-Mart would expand over the next 10 years in their saturation strategy to fill the market. …
Month: March 2006
Andy Young Pimpin’ for Wal-Mart?!?
New Orleans Andy Young used to stand very tall in the pantheon of people who did right and represented. Andrew Young was from New Orleans. Gives him points with me! Rev. Young was Dr. King’s right hand at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the days of the movement. He was the representative to …
Small Traders Strike in India
New Orleans Small traders met several weeks ago supported by a half-dozen of the major political parties in India along with several of the national labor centers. The reason was simple: the prime minister’s approval of foreign direct investment (FDI) for single-brand retail. Let me roll it back for you more slowly…. India in the …