Join the army of guppies to fight Wal-Mart (win $1,000?)

Dear Activist,

Our ongoing struggle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way is not limited to George W. Bush and the Republican right.

We must also fight powerful and oppressive corporations like Wal-Mart.

Here is a wonderful grassroots campaign from SEIU (the Service Employees International Union) to create an "army of guppies" to spread the truth about Wal-Mart.

Please read it carefully - if you act quickly, you could earn $1000 towards your health insurance expenses!

Bob Fertik

Dear Democrats.com Member,

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.

http://www.purpleocean.org/walmart/?src=dems

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.

http://www.purpleocean.org/walmart/?src=dems

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 )

http://www.purpleocean.org/walmart/?src=dems

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.

Join me and thousands of Americans across the country in helping to spread the word about how Wal-Mart is leading the low road economy.

In Solidarity,

Andy Stern
President, SEIU

P.S. You can learn more about the work that we're doing at SEIU and PurpleOcean.org in last week's New York Times Magazine cover story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/magazine/30STERN.html?ex=1264827600&en=4b1bcee161f4a185&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

way, glad to have some resources to use too...

Wal-Mart is also on Multinational Monitor's list of the 10 Worst Companies on the planet.

a mom and pop store made good. Like Sam walton just some poor ordinary schmuck, makes good on the American dream and that's what you are supporting when you shop there. Nothing about little chinese children in sweat-shops and great big share-holders rolling in dough.

I just read about this in an email. I'm joining.

Post it in the Lounge . . . . perhaps get a bigger response.