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Sun, 11/20/2005 - 2:00pm

PHILIPSTOWN FOR DEMOCRACY SUNDAY, November 20 from 2 to 4 PM at DESMOND FISH LIBRARY Meeting Room (enter through the main library entrance) Rte. 403 at Rte. 9D, Garrison
We will watch the film WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
By Robert Greenwald (director of Outfoxed, Unconstitutional, and Uncovered: the Whole Truth about the Iraq War)
There is no shortage of statistical data testifying to Wal-Mart’s mammoth scale: Wal-Mart is the world’s largest corporation, the world’s largest employer and China’s sixth largest export market. Wal-Mart is rezoning America, setting wage standards and conducting diplomacy with other nations -- overtaking all its rivals as the world-transforming economic institution of our time. With a non-union, low-benefit, high turnover workforce of more than 1.2 million U.S. workers, Wal-Mart exerts a powerful downward pressure upon both the wages it pays directly and those of its competitors. Wal-Mart is a veritable engine of income inequality: it is therefore the most important social policy innovator in the United States today.
Is Wal-Mart the template for our future?
“An engrossing, muckraking documentary about the retail giant that's been called ‘the world's largest, richest and probably meanest corporation.’