Walmart the Movie - free screenings across US - link here

[sadinred]

THE CRITICS ARE GLOWING! An "investigative outcry driven by stringent reporting rather than attitude." -Entertainment Weekly

"An engrossing, muckraking documentary ... but if you're expecting an angry diatribe, you're going to be disappointed." -LA Times

"By the final credits you may want to picket Sam Walton's grave." -Boston Globe


http://www.walmartmovie.com/find.php

[havocmom]

1. Picket or piss on it?

Any chance the Walls are pals with the Dillards?

[sadinred]

2. no it's an ANTI walmart movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[havocmom]

3. Referring to Sam's GRAVE... Picket or piss on it?

;)

[sadinred]

5. oh, so sorry! I'm all steamed because of the other issue we're

discussing!

[havocmom]

10. LOL 's OK. I often have trouble seeing through the steam I produce

sometimes ;) But it was a good joke and I didn't want you to miss it.

[Ezlivin]

4. I watched this movie this weekend. I am now ready to kill myself

A very good movie with a very heavy message.

Wal-Mart has more power than you imagined. It is simply unreal.

In one clip, a former worker drove out to the fortified and guarded underground compound of the Waltons. It is a completely self-sufficient bunker with a heliport atop it. You can't even see past the reinforced concrete entrance.

It makes you wonder how many more of these ultra survivor bunkers the wealthy have. Perhaps they are the real reason for the development of the V-22 Osprey.

Watch the movie. Sit in your chair and tremble.

Then wonder WTF we are going to do.

(Warning: Do NOT watch this movie and "The Future of Food" in one weekend. You'll regret it.)

[sadinred]

6. wow. Now I have to see them both. Not, however, back to back.

thanks for the warning.

take care. watch something mindlessly humorous.

[Ezlivin]

7. Yeah. I need my fix of The Daily Show (n/t)

[cyberpj]

8. Saw it last week. OMG, the part where they move operations just outside

of town - just when they were contracted to start paying taxes!! Leaving the first big box empty and unsellable within the town!

But I was encouraged by the list of towns at the end of the film that are refusing Walmarts across the country.

Americans need to see this movie and STOP BUYING AT WALMART!

[Ezlivin]

9. Wal-Mart pulled that "shell-game" here

They got their tax abatements and built a new Wal-Mart at the western edge of Southlake, Texas. Just when the tax abatements were due to expire, they built another store on the eastern edge of Grapevine, a city that adjoins Southlake.

The movie made me very angry and frustrated. Damn.

[sadinred]

11. self kick for the PM Duers. n/t