[van-announce] Students, film-maker look at Wal-Mart

[Paul Browning]

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>From the Vancouver and District Labour Council...

A number of students from Concordia University
and Mark Achbar, director of "The Corporation",
have organized a cross-Canada tour to disseminate
information on Wal-Mart's unethical business practices.

The tour will end in Vancouver on May 20.
Read on below for a brief synopsis of their goals.
Visit their interesting website for more in-depth info:
www.wal-town.com

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In the first week of May, nine of us -- six students,
two documentary filmmakers, and one writer/photographer
-- will leave Montreal in two vans equipped with video
cameras, sound recorders, computers, and roughly
200 pounds of print material for a cross-Canada
3 week-long journey, ending in Vancouver, on May 20.

Our mission?
To disseminate information on Wal-Mart's unethical business practices.

We will leave from the town of Jonquiere in the
Saguenay Region where 250 Wal-Mart employees
just voted on unionizing.

It would have been the first Wal-Mart to unionize,
but the no vote won by a slim majority.

>From Jonquiere, we will continue across Canada,
stopping at at least one Wal-Mart store per day
-- focusing on Wal-Marts in smaller communities
within 100 km of the TransCanada Highway.

Upon arrival at each Wal-Mart store, we will
park our vehicles in each respective parking lot
and set up our information table, stocked with
pamphlets, booklets, and other materials.

With literature in hand, we will work to engage
customers, workers, and others through dialogue and debate.

Why Wal-Mart?
We will talk to people about the alleged human rights
violations Wal-Mart has committed, concentrating on
labour rights and subsequent violations (citing the
International Labour Organization where possible)
in particular.

We intend to address Wal-Mart's substandard labour
practices abroad in the forms of exploitive "slave labour"
and "sweatshop labour" in countries like Lesotho and
Indonesia and China, as well as addressing the issue
of Wal-Mart's poor domestic labour standards, and its
aggressive business practices like "Predatory Pricing" and
anti-organized labour policies.

Please take a moment to visit our website to view
our schedule to see when we will be at
a Wal-Mart in your community.
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