Help spread the Truth of Walmart's below poverty line average wage.

Wal-Mart has come under fire in recent years for low pay, poor benefits, and alleged sexual discrimination.

Last month Wal-Mart, the largest company in the world, launched a million-dollar advertising campaign attempting to silence critics who point out facts like that in 2001 the average Wal-Mart clerk made just $8.23 an hour - below the federal poverty line for a family of three.

It's time to start spreading the real facts: Wal-Mart is big, but they can't outrun the truth.

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Today, as the president of SEIU - the nation's largest and fastest growing worker's organization - I'm asking you to join me in launching a nationwide, grassroots campaign to spread the real facts on Wal-Mart, person-by-person and city-by-city.

No huge ad budgets or television commercials - just the facts about Wal-Mart and working families in America.

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Rather than fight back against Wal-Mart's new ad campaign with more slick advertising and giant budgets, we think there's a better way to get the real facts out about how Wal-Mart is impacting the American economy - a grassroots way that depends on you for success.

Invite your friends to view the facts and become part of PurpleOcean.org, then see who accepted your invitations on an animated map that tracks your fact sheet as it spreads across the country.

Start the chain by passing on the facts, then see how from day-to-day, your individual influence spreads the word.

If you're one of the first 25 people whose chain grows to 500, then you'll receive $1,000 towards your health insurance expenses - or, if you already have health insurance, we'll put it into a fund that will help provide health insurance for Wal-Mart workers who can't afford it.

(The official rules are online at: http://www.purpleocean.org/walmart/officialrules )

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When Wal-Mart launched its campaign last week, Wal-Mart's CEO said that he was tired of the criticism of the world's largest retailer - tired of the criticism about its poor pay, bad benefits, sexual discrimination, and poor working conditions.

He said he was tired of being "nibbled to death by guppies."

Well, it's not over, and it starts with you.

Now, with your help, PurpleOcean.org, SEIU's grassroots public membership of people from all walks of life, is launching an army of guppies unlike anything Wal-Mart has ever seen.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/magazine/30STERN.html?ex=1264827600&en=4b1bcee161f4a185&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland