[lit-ideas] Re: Lead Us Not Into Penn Station and Deliver Us from Wal-Mart?
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 12:15:14 -0700
Whoa.
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Lead Us Not Into Penn Station and Deliver Us from Wal-Mart?
> Complete story at http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/005/17.40.html
>
> Deliver Us from Wal-Mart?
> Christians are among those sounding the alarm about the ethics of this
> retail giant. Are the worries justified?
> by Jeff M. Sellers
>
> The cavernous hallway outside Chicago City Council chambers is echoing
> with the sound of 150 people chanting, "We're fed up, we won't take it
> no mo'!"
>
> The lady with the megaphone is leading a mix of union workers and
> community reform activists shouting slogans against the world's largest
> retailer. One of the protesters, Ella Hereth of the advocacy group Jobs
> with Justice, tells CT that Wal-Mart is the "poster boy for corporate
> exploitation."
>
> She ticks off the complaints: low pay, scant benefits, race and sex
> discrimination, and profiting from mistreated workers in foreign
> "sweatshops." Before the Chicago City Council votes to block one store
> but allow another, aldermen label Wal-Mart "the worst company in
> America" and an "evildoer."
>
> As it has grown into a powerhouse with sales of $256.3 billion—more than
> the sales of Microsoft and retail competitors Home Depot, Kroger,
> Target, and Costco combined—Wal-Mart has become a lightning rod
> nationwide in local tempests of moral outrage. Church leaders (primarily
> mainline, liberal, and Roman Catholic) have joined grassroots activists
> fearful that mindless global market factors will steamroll human dignity.
>
> "Wal-Mart's practices are immoral and unfair," says Reginald Williams
> Jr., associate pastor for justice ministries at Trinity United Church of
> Christ in Chicago. Pastors at the 8,500-member Trinity United and eight
> other African American congregations in Chicago called for a boycott of
> Wal-Mart.
>
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