[Livingwage] living wage meeaating

[Conrad Wetzel]

To: Belden
From: Conrad Wetzel

I regret I won't be able to attend the Saturday LW meeting.  We're having an 
extral rehearsal for the Oratorio Society's concert on Saturday night.  I do 
agree that the issures surrounding the possibility of a WalMart store in 
Urbana deserve thoughtful discussion.


>From: Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
>To: livingwage at lists.cu.groogroo.com
>Subject: [Livingwage] living wage meeaating
>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:00:24 -0600
>
>Dear Living Wagers,
>
>	the Living Wage meeting will be this Saturday at noon in the offices of 
>the Illinois Education Association.  I will not be able to make it because 
>of the memorial service for my deceased friend, Sara Douglas.  I assume 
>that there will be a continuation of the discussion of non-certified 
>employees of the school districts in this area.  But I would like to put 
>another item on the agenda.  That is the possibility of Wal-Mart coming to 
>Urbana.  Many of us took the position that given the desperate tax needs of 
>Urbana, we would not object to Wal-Mart's coming, but we did not want any 
>financial enticements to go tot he corporation.  Now that the extent of 
>Wal-Mart's horrible treatment of the people who clean their stores I wonder 
>if we should not:  (1) reinforce the previous position in a presentation to 
>the city council OR (2) oppose  this horrendous rights-violating 
>corporation's presence in our  community, (3) and/or organize pickets at 
>the stores already in this area and letters to the editor urging people top 
>boycott the stores?
>Belden Fields
>
>
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