[IMC-US] Collaboration--WALMART?

[dirtyjoe at riseup.net]

Hi,

Just wanted to speak on this subject.  Arkansas IMC is having a lot of
trouble right now as we usually are(damn hillbillies), but many in our
community are working on walmart stuff and currently walmart is facing
opposition on so many fronts around the world.  I would like to utilize
the iMC network to try and bring many of these different struggles
together and the week of that Greenwald film screening is the perfect time
to do it.  I work good with numbered lists.

1.  I work with the against the wal collective, www.againstthewal.net   If
any of yall that are involved with or going to a walmart movie screening
next week would please send me an address where I can mail you an against
the wal packet.  It is a little promo packet for our Against The wal
protest every summer during the walmart shareholders meeting.  Has
stickers and flyers.  We have managed to mail out about 100 so far in the
dirty south.

2.  Todd I would like a copy of your walmart reality commercial if it
comes to.  If you wanted to distirbute it to some of the showings of
greenwalds film i have a decent database of addresses to mail to around
the mid-south.  also know some folks with wake up walmart who might help
distribute any kind of media projects to all of these little showings of
greenwalds film all over the country.  I think there are like a thousand
expected.

3.  I would like to help make some kind of superawesome feature about
walmart.  Already been working on a story about the infowars between
walmart and greenwald, focusing on walmarts strategy (yall should see the
corp. papers in AR.  Every section lately has had some kind of walmart
press release front page and they are renting a movie theatre in their
town, bentonville AR to show a prowalmart documentary.)  Also I have a
nerdiculous amount of links to walmart stuff and a childish obsession with
the company.

joe

> Todd, what an inspiring read. Binghamton-IMC isn't
> capable of coordinating such incredible outreach--we
> just don't have the numbers or the know-how.
> Binghamton has about five committed volunteers, and
> each brings to the table an important asset. So we can
> function well if we keep things to a minimum, but we
> can't do much else. We're focusing this winter on a
> massive outreach to two local colleges and we hope
> that might bring creative, committed allies to the
> table.
>
> As for the Walmart project in particular, we are
> hosting Greenwald's film with an alliance of about 15
> community groups. First time we pulled some important
> unions into the fold and we hope this might be the
> beginning of our solidarity.
>
> Anyhow, your letter made me realize how important it
> is to see what other IMCs are doing and the relevance
> of your "barn-raising pow-wow" this weekend. Hope it
> bears fruit. Was wondering if we might want to keep a
> running list of projects and outreach actions that
> IMCs are doing. Not only as a collection of possible
> ideas that we each might adopt and adapt, but also as
> a board of inspiring possibilities. It renews my
> commitment whenever I hear how other IMCs are bringing
> media creation skills and tools to those stigamtized,
> underrepresented or wholly ignored by MSM.
>
> In solidarity,
> tarik
> binghamton-imc
>
> --- Todd Wolfson <twolfson1998 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey Folks:
>>
>> I just wanted to see how and if different IMC's were
>> working on this Wal-Mart project. In Philly we are
>> working with JobswithJustice on this campaign. We
>> have
>> held trainings on podcasting and investigative
>> journalism (w/ John Tarleton) calling unoin members
>> and civic leaders into the process of producing
>> media
>> and we are working to collect narratives from
>> Wal-Mart
>> workers and different community members on Walmart's
>> impact on the local economy. We are also making
>> Walmart reality commercials to be screened at the
>> showing of the Greenwald film and we are working on
>> some Podcasts about Wal-Mart. Anyway, we want to
>> collaborate with those groups that are also working
>> on
>> this sharing tactics, footage interviews, journalism
>> etc... Who is out there? Tarik?
>>
>> In solidarity,
>> Todd
>>
>>
>>
>>
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