Fighting Goliath on Film

Isn´t it funny how certain words can set your mind a tickin? One of the words that sets off a small explosion in my brain is "Walmart." I mean my brain literally goes nuts. There are so many things that I associate with Walmart, and none of them are good. Here´s a list:

Minimum Wage
Employer of illegal immigrants (paying them less than minimum wage)
Anti-woman
Anti-minority
Anti-Union
Anti-Sheryl Crow (remember how they refused to sell her CD because her song "Love is a Good Thing" included the lyrics “Watch out Sister, watch out Brother, watch our children as they kill eachother, with a gun they bought at Walmart Discount stores.” )
Anti-Mom and Pop Shops
Outsourcer of jobs
Crappy products
The Walton Family (too damn rich for their own good)

And I´m sure there´s much more that my brain has just blocked out. Anyone who doesn´t live in a cave knows that this superstore giant is eating up America and that the outcome of said invasion is in no way positive. You need look no further than the Walmart Sex Discrimination Law Suit to know exactly what kind of a company we´re dealing with here.

However, there is a ray of shining hope on the horizon. Robert Greenwald, creator of the controversial documentaries "Outfoxed" and "Uncovered" that shed new light on Fox News and the Iraq War, has now decided to expose Wal-Mart as a "Merchant of Shame" and as a retailer whose greed for profits comes at the expense of working class America. His new film is called WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price and is scheduled to be released this November.

Click here to learn more about the film that´s trying to stop Walmart.

And if you´d like to learn more about Walmart and it´s dirty practices, check out the amazingly well researched and compiled report by Frontline called Is Walmart Good for America? - they´re rolling back prices, rolling back competition, and rolling jobs overseas.