Several news sources this morning are reporting on the protest outside of ABC’s Good Morning America yesterday. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) delivered a letter signed by 21 Democrats denouncing ABCs relationship with Walmart. He also gave a fiery speech outside of the show, along with a group of local UFCW representatives and supporters.
Some great quotes from Weiner’s speech:
More after the fold…
Not only has Wal-Mart been hostile to American values, they have also stated that the only way that they can improve profitability is through cutting better deals with their overseas (read: China) suppliers. That doesn’t sound like “Only in America” to me.
Here is a quote by ABC VP Jeff Schneider:
Yes, Mr. Schneider, that is ironic, because you are taking wads of money from a giant corporation who you have helped expose as being dangerous to American communities in order to make them appear less dangerous. Ironic indeed.
Links to articles:
Link to the UFCWs petition calling on ABC to drop Walmart as the sponsor to the “Only in America” segment:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/abcnews
Please keep your eyes out for more on this from me. The UFCW is launching an aggressive new campaign, with plenty of new online tools so that we can all be active in this fight. More to come soon…
Awesome. I’m so glad you’re keeping us posted.
Thanks for keeping us posted. I wonder if the ABC vice president knows how dumb he sounds by saying they’ve done some ‘aggressive’ reporting on Wal-Mart…then goes on to take their money anyway? What’s the old saying…’you’re either part of the problem or part of the solution’.
They can report all they want I guess but as long as they turn around and take money from Wal-Mart they’ll be part of the problem.
Thank you for the updates, Ex. I am glad to hear that the protest was a success. Please keep us informed as you can.
http://www.corporateswine.net/walmart.html I’m still working on putting in links and think I have it down now. Anyway this is one site with Wal-mart on it and many, many other companies if anyone wants to check it out.
Thanks for the link. I am actually now working for the UFCW on their new campaign, which will be run much like a political campaign, and we are launching our new website early next week, so any other useful sites/blogs or ideas are welcome!
http://factchecker.purpleocean.org/readmore Here’s another link I have had had bookmarked on my computer for awhile. You may have this but thought I’d go ahead and post it anyway. I have another one but can’t seem to figure out how to post two links at once.
Here’http://www.anti-walmart.com/badwalmart/discrimination.htmls the other one: