WakeUpWalMart.com videos and ads
Beatrice Biggs Parker, a former Walmart greeter and a Points of Light Award recipient, tells her story of how Walmart's sick leave policy and practices of intimidation forced her from her job.
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If a corporation, like Walmart, makes billions of dollars, taxpayers should not be billed for their employees benefits.
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When a corporation like Walmart makes record profits, they should provide affordable health care to their employees.
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Help us spread the word about Walmart employees' collective struggle for dignity at work. Check out our new video and tell your friends about Walmart's anti-worker policies.
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This holiday season, let's remind Wal-Mart that some values are more important than the ones found on store shelves.
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$1.8 billion in taxpayer subsidies to cover employees' medical expenses. Lost wages for 1.6 million women. Untold numbers of jobs sent overseas. Wal-Mart continues to turn a profit while America's middle class foots the bill.
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During our 2008 holiday campaign, we reminded you that as as America's economy suffers, 70% of Wal-Mart's products are imported from China.
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John McCains economic plan calls for a .5 billion tax cut for Wal-Mart, and millions more for their CEO, Lee Scott.
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Why is John McCain siding with Wal-Mart and other corporate interests instead of America's working women?
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With notoriously poor health and safety standards and a 70% rate of products imported from China, Walmart poses a greater threat to American values than ever before.
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70% of Wal-Mart's goods are made in China. Would you trust your children's safety to the cheap, Chinese manufactured products on Walmart's shelves?
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The real cost of shopping at Walmart: toys covered in lead paint, recalls, unsafe food products, and cheap Chinese imports.
This ad asked viewers: before you consider Walmart, ask yourself, can America afford these hidden costs? Can you?
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What's good for Wal-Mart is good for China.
If you're cashing a tax rebate check at Wal-Mart this year, you're in for a surprise. Since 70% of Wal-Mart's goods come from China, Your American economic stimulus check will go overseas, along with our solid, middle class jobs.
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The video Wal-Mart doesn't want you to see. For years, Wal-Mart CEOs have pledged to "do the right thing", even when it conflicts with company policy. In Debbie Shank's case, Wal-Mart was all talk, refusing to take action until the public outcry against the company's actions was deafening.
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Is Wal-Mart taking our country in the right direction? Find out how Wal-Mart is shipping American jobs overseas, failing to make good on its sustainability promises, and leading the race to the bottom among American employers.
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In this ad, two prominent Baptist ministers speak of all that Wal-Mart has been given, and of the retail giant's responsibility to be a better neighbor this holiday season by paying a fair wage, providing affordable healthcare, and ensuring the safety of the goods it sells.
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In this ad, we let Americans know that when consumers shop at Wal-Mart, they subsidize a company where 70% of goods come from China, where worker's rights are violated, and poor product safety standards lead to unsafe items being sold in American stores.
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Wal-Mart is the #1 importer of Chinese goods. After the spree of high-profile recalls and outright bans on dangerous Chinese products in 2007, we thought Wal-Mart would stand up for the safety of American consumers? Instead, they lobbied congress to make it harder to identify the country of origin on food products. Check out the TV ad for more, and
use this page to spread the word.
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Amid the rampant recalls of unsafe Chinese exports, we released a new report and a new ad exposing Wal-Mart's cozy relationship with China. Check out the TV ad, and the report:
Wal-Mart and China: How America’s #1 Company is Putting America’s Safety Second.
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Wal-Mart earns an "F" for paying poverty-level wages. Wal-Mart earns an "F" for breaking child labor laws, again and again, right here in America. And Wal-Mart earns an "F" for pushing its health care costs onto taxpayers. During the kickoff of the 2007 school year, we asked our supporters to write their local newspapers to let America know about Wal-Mart's failing grades. Check out the accompanying video spot.
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Most of the goods on Wal-Mart's shelves come from China, sending your money, and a lot of American jobs, overseas.
Watch the ad today to learn even more about Wal-Mart and China.
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Sam Walton's Wal-Mart used to be an American company, but that has all changed. Wal-Mart is the #1 importer of Chinese goods, and moves good-paying American jobs overseas.
Watch the video, learn how Wal-Mart is making China stronger at America's expense.
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Instead of doing what is right for America, irresponsible corporations, like Wal-Mart, lobbied against 100% scanning of port containers.
It's Hard to believe, but it's true. Watch the video and see how Wal-Mart puts profits first, and America's security second.
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It would take a thousand years for an average Wal-Mart worker, like Charmaine Givens, to earn what Lee Scott made in 2004.
How would you feel if Wal-Mart treated you this way?
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Three courageous Wal-mart workers speak out about the conditions at Wal-Mart: poverty wages, salary caps, and unaffordable health care.
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With its new policies, Wal-Mart has abandoned the values of its founder, Sam Walton. Learn what it's really like to work for
Wal-Mart under its new Anti-Family policies.
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Who pursued a policy of outright greed? Who opposed a living wage, failed to provide affordable health-care, and shipped American jobs overseas? That's right, Wal-Mart.
Watch this video to find out why Wal-Mart is bad for America.
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Find out why Rush Limbaugh smiles when consumers shop at Wal-Mart. Watch our video, then head to our
TurnTheFrownUpsideDown.com, and help stop Wal-Mart's radical right-wing agenda. .
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This spot promoted our 35 day National bus tour in August of 2006. The tour was a smashing success, you can
view
the archived site here.
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Highlighting a year of grassroots action and leadership, this video surveys the first year of our movement and our goals for the future.
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This ad calls attention to the enormous tax burden imposed on American taxpayers by Wal-Mart's healthcare failures.
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This video called on residents of Washington to contact their legislators
and support fair share legislation in their state.
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This ad rallied support for fair share health care in Maryland and alerted citizens to the designs of Governor Erlich and Wal-Mart lobbyists, who attempted to kill the Maryland fair share bill.
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This video is a montage of interviews, commentary, and scenes from the Cincinnati premiere of "Wal-Mart:
The High Cost of Low Price."
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Launched along with a letter sent to Lee Scott, signed by over 93 prominent leaders of faith representing over 1.3 million Americans, this ad asks, should people of faith shop at Wal-Mart?
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This ad asked viewers if they would shop at Wal-Mart if they knew Wal-Mart broke child labor laws, discriminated against women, or had thousands of employees without health care.
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Wal-Mart wants you to come home for the holidays. But are Wal-Mart's values your families' values? This Holiday Season, you have a choice. This Holiday Season, your family deserves better than Wal-Mart.
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Launched on Wednesday, November 30, this ad highlights two studies showing that Wal-Mart is charging the wrong price in at least 4 states, including overcharging customers.
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Launched on Wednesday, November 9, this ad begs the question, who is the most corrupt in America?
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Launched on Monday, October 31, this ad appeared in conjunction with newspaper and online advertising,
this ad invites readers to see Robert Greenwald’s documentary Wal-Mart : The High Cost of Low Price.
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Launched on Monday, November 14, this ad outlines the fundamental differences between Wal-Mart's America
and our America.
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Launched on Monday, October 31, this ad appeared in conjunction with TV and online advertising,
this ad invites readers to see Robert Greenwald’s documentary Wal-Mart : The High Cost of Low Price.
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