Jessehaf, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 4, 2008. Hillary is currently the top recipient of campaign contributions from Wal-Mart executives, taking in more than Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee.
Karen Dolan, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 4, 2008. As frustration with the status quo in Washington rises, people are turning to local governments for action.
Reed McManus, Sierra Club. February 1, 2008. Wal-Mart hired former Sierra Club president Adam Werbach, but is the mega-retailer greening its business or just its image?
Andrea Buffa, Kathleen Maclay, AlterNet. December 6, 2007. Contrary to the cries of Big Business's Chicken Littles, public interest regulations that help workers get out from under the "Wal-Mart Model" of working in poverty don't hit consumers hard.
Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. November 20, 2007. The big-box company's new glossy environmental report can't hide that its fundamental problem is its business model.
Eric Haas, AlterNet. October 26, 2007. Editing tactics known as "white-washing" may compromise Wikipedia's future as a democratic source of reliable information.
Robert B. Reich, Alfred A. Knopf. September 26, 2007. The awkward truth is that most of us are two minds: As consumers and investors we want the great deals. As citizens we don't like many of the social consequences that flow from them.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet: PEEK. September 12, 2007. Tara Lohan: The retail giant wants to get on the popular eco-bandwagon, but Wal-Mart Watch won't let 'em.
Cliff Schecter, AlterNet: Video. August 7, 2007. Cliff Schecter: Rudy is spotted shopping in an Iowa Wal-Mart; maybe he can find the equipment he never bought the firefighters pre-9/11.
Liza Featherstone, The Nation. July 2, 2007. SEIU President Andy Stern heads one of the strongest unions in the country, yet he's stood on stage to campaign with anti-union CEOs like Wal-Mart's Lee Scott. Why is he so cozy with corporations?
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: PEEK. June 5, 2007. A new project intended to expose Wal-Mart's massive tax-payer subsidies goes right to the heart of conservatives' Big Lie about embracing free markets.
Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. April 6, 2007. With Target and Wal-Mart acting as though they are entitled to spy on, stalk and imprison their own employees, we are on the road to a full-scale workplace dictatorship.
Stacy Mitchell, Grist.org. April 2, 2007. Wal-Mart's commitments to become more energy efficient are not without substance, but what can't be ignored is that big-box retailing is intrinsically unsustainable.
Michael Shank, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 19, 2007. From foreign governments to U.S. mayors to mega-retailers like Wal-Mart, everyone is going "green." When will Congress get on board?
David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. February 28, 2007. David Sirota: The new majority opens up the U.S. Capitol to host an official event with the biggest of Big Money interests.
Jason Mark, Kevin Danaher, Grist.org. February 20, 2007. Can Americans retain their bad habits of overconsumption but simply switch to earth-friendly products? In truth, we are not going to spend our way out of a social and ecological crisis 500 years in the making.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. January 30, 2007. Wal-Mart is making over its image to cater to a more affluent crowd. But behind its increasingly upscale image are the same lowbrow business tactics.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet: PEEK. January 22, 2007. Tara Lohan: A watch-dog group has reported that Wal-Mart is using misleading signs to pass off nonorganic products as organic.
Stacy Mitchell, AlterNet. December 7, 2006. A growing number of communities are fighting back against the rising power of large retail stores like Wal-Mart. But real change won't come until we stop thinking of ourselves as consumers and start thinking of ourselves as engaged citizens.
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