Green Party NYS: Cuomo’s Moreland Commission Doesn’t Target Political Corruption

The Green Party of New York State criticized Governor Cuomo today for not attacking public corruption in New York by establishing the Moreland Commission.

Tuesday: If you shop in America, take the time to mourn in empathy with the people of Bangladesh

Full post at our kind shopping website: Peace Couple In Bangladesh, over 100 factory workers died in an unsafe clothing factory over the weekend. These factories exist to make the clothes that we purchase here in America. One of the factories made clothes which were ultimately sold to Walmart (through a complicated supply chain)[ADN]. Other […]

Black Friday: Buy Nothing! Demand Peace! Support striking Wal-Mart workers!

See box below for “Occupy Walmart/Occupy Black Friday” on Long Island Great Live Streaming of a Walmart event in Maryland: here. Black Friday for some people means lining up for bargains at the doors of big corporations. Though, people who want our country to be more sustainable, and less dependent on war money,  have often […]

Wed. Feb 29th Occupy actions: 70 Cities Nationwide Stand up to Corporate Greed and ALEC (plus Long Island area events)

Listing for Occupy Long Island events in Shirley and Huntington on Friday afternoon are posted: here and below. Informative (and amusing) update about NYPD preparations for the occupy event in NYC today (Feb 29): here. LiveStream of events in Spain: here (Please watch if you can, action all over Spain. And, at Wed 10am EST, […]

Don’t let Walmart hone in on East Patchogue

Public Hearing about a potential, new, East Patchogue location for Walmart to be held at the Town of Brookhaven Town Hall, in  Farmingville January 9, 2012 at 4:00 pm Please attend, to give your input on development, land use, and the business community in your town. One civic group who is activated on this issue […]

“Keep DC Walmart Free” by Head-Roc

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHhaYiVtfIs&feature=youtube_gdata_player&mid=511] Walmart has plans to establish four stores in DC by 2012. Notorious for threatening small businesses, causing the loss of more jobs, and bringing lower wage standards for all workers to communities, concerned District of Columbia citizens and social justice advocates are coming together to spread the news and resist the potentially disastrous implication for the District. […]

Green Day censored by Wal-Mart (Green Day wins)

KW: I haven’t been in a Wal-Mart in years due to their labor practices and injustices. But, heck, if you know anyone who does shop there, tell them to avoid it… (excerpt from) Los Angeles Times/AP Wal-Mart: no Green Day / May 22, 2009 Green Day has the most popular CD in the country right […]

How Wal Mart (and the retail business, and government) can truly learn

Over at www.opednews.com, I posted my article about what Woody Guthrie would think about the death of the Wal Mart worker on Black Friday. I suggested that people should investigate what Wal Mart could have done, and what Wal Mart, and the government, should do now. An Op Ed News reader posted a great comment, […]

Wal-Mart Stampede: A union perspective

You can learn more about Wal Mart’s practices at: www.walmartcrimereport.com You can find several books chronicling problems at Wal Mart at our Onthewilderside/Powell’s Books bookstore: here. – News from _UFCW Local 1500_ (http://www.ufcw1500.org/) Union Responds To Death of Long Island Wal-Mart Worker, Demands Federal Safety Agency and Nassau County Prosecutor Investigate

Wal-Mart stampede: Where’s Woody Guthrie?

Condolences to the family of Jdimytai Damour. It is very sad that he was trampled while trying to make a living as a worker at a Wal-Mart store. Now, what can we learn from this? And, who is to blame?

Newsday.com: LI Wal-Mart worker dies in Black Friday stampede

Link to Kimberly’s onthewilderside commentary is: here. WalMart Black Friday stampede kills greeter employed by Long Island Store — Newsday.com A 34-year-old Wal-Mart worker died Friday morning after “a throng of shoppers . . . physically broke down the doors” and knocked him to the ground as the crowd pushed its way into the store […]

Explore Nader on Super Tuesday

Corporate Welfare Kings Greetings. Tomorrow is Super Tuesday. And tomorrow is a big day for the two corporate controlled parties. For the corporate Democrats, will it be Hillary – whose work as a young lawyer for the union-busting Wal-Mart was documented last week by ABC News? Or will it be Obama, who wants to keep […]