http://www.ajc.com/business/content/printedition/2007/08/10/walmart.htmlActivists in India protest against Wal-Mart
By Matthew Rosenberg
Associated Press
Published on: 08/10/07
New Delhi, India —- Several hundred small shop owners, trade unionists and activists rallied in India's capital Thursday to protest a push by Wal-Mart and other foreign megastores into India's retail market.
Protesters shouted and burned effigies representing Wal-Mart and its local partner, Bharti Enterprises.
The rally underscored growing tensions in India as the country's economic boom moves beyond high technology and other big businesses that employ relatively few people and begins to transform parts of the economy that provide a livelihood for hundreds of millions of people.
Since the start of the year, there have been spasms of violence by farmers angry over land lost to big industrial projects. A Communist insurgency has taken root in southern and eastern India.
Organizers at Thursday's protest said it was time that the country's estimated 12 million mom-and-pop shops were heard, and they promised more rallies.
Dhamendra Kumar of India FDI Watch, a group that's lobbying against the big stores, promised a long campaign.
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