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USA#1


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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:55 am    Post subject: WalMart Seeks New Ethics Head  
This one is a doozy. With all the hubbub surrounding WalMart in the last few years, WalMart has created a new department specifically dealing with the company's Code of Conduct and making sure the company is being run ethically.

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186752,00.html
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Nofsdad


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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:26 am    Post subject:  
Too bad Eddie won't try to compete in that area.
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sleK
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:44 am    Post subject:  
An interesting (and probably related) story at the black commentator: Andy Young the Shameless Son.

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Andrew Young, a former member of Dr. [Martin Luther] King's inner circle at SCLC, who went on to serve three terms in Congress, a stint as UN ambassador and two terms as mayor of Atlanta before cashing out his Freedom Movement chips for a lucrative career as an international "business consultant," decisively spat upon the movement for human rights and economic justice that he spent his early career helping to build. Young announced on February 27, 2006 that he would chair Working Families for Wal-Mart, a media sock-puppet for the ruthless multinational firm.


Purely a propaganda move IMO. WM's trying desperately to combat the bad PR they've been deservedly getting. I strongly suspect that there will be few, if any, actual improvements in their practices.
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sleK
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:14 pm    Post subject:  
The PR campaign continues:
Wal-Mart enlists bloggers in P.R. campaign

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Wal-Mart, long criticized for low wages and its health benefits, began working with bloggers in late 2005 "as part of our overall effort to tell our story," said Mona Williams, a company spokeswoman.

In the messages, Wal-Mart promotes positive news about itself, like the high number of job applications it received at a new store in Illinois, and criticizes opponents, noting for example that a rival, Target, raised "zero" money for the Salvation Army in 2005, because it banned red-kettle collectors from stores.
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Nofsdad


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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:56 pm    Post subject:  
One thing that WalMart can't shine up or candy coat:



While I intend this basically as a comment on the exloitative sweat shop mentality that has helped to allow WalMart to become what it has, you can't excape the fact that today's generation of elite corporate snobs cynically enriches itself by dealing with the "evil empire" that my generation spent thousands of lives and trillions of dollars to defend against.

As long as American corporations can make billions by getting a share of the loot generated by expoiting the working classes in ANY country, they don't give a damn who they deal with and nothing epitomizes that more than China's eighth or ninth largest trading partner, WalMart.

That's why it's so funny when some Neocon corporatist tags me with the label "socialist" or even "communist" when I suggest that the workers who produce the pie ought to get a slice of it.

I'm not the one sleeping with the "former enemy" for a few Yuan.
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