[Peace] Wal-Mart Movie

[Brandon Bowersox]

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
VoBA To Sponsor December 16 Screening and Panel Discussion of Film
Friday 6:00pm @ IBEW Hall in Champaign (directions below)

Champaign, Illinois – The Champaign County Volunteers For A Better America
(“VoBA”) announced today that it will be sponsoring a screening and panel
discussion of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, which Rob Reiner has
described as “a brilliant new film by Robert Greenwald tell[ing] the real
story of the corrosive effects that Wal-Mart wreaks upon the communities
in which it operates and the men and women it employs.”

The event, which will be free and open to the public, will be held on
December 16 at IBEW Hall in Champaign (directions below).  Refreshments
will be served at 6:00 p.m., and the movie will be shown at 6:30 p.m. 
Following the movie, a panel discussion that will address topics including
the effect of Wal-Mart’s expansion in our local Champaign-Urbana community
will be held featuring Lorraine Cowart, Chairwoman of the Champaign County
Board’s Highway Committee; Mike Herbert, Business Manager of Electricians
LU #601 and a member of the University of Illinois’s Labor-Management
Committee; Ron Peters, Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois’s
Institute of Labor & Industrial Relations and Retired Head of its Labor
Education Program; and Cynthia Williams, Professor of Law at the
University of Illinois College of Law and a leading expert in the field of
corporate social responsibility.

Linda Beale, a founder of VoBA and an organizer of the event, said, “With
two Wal-Marts already in the Champaign-Urbana area, and at least one more
planned, it is important that local citizens learn more about how Wal-Mart
affects our local community.  This movie, and a panel that includes
perspectives of government planners, labor organizers, and academic
experts in the fields of labor and corporate responsibility, provides an
excellent opportunity to have this important discussion.”

VoBA is an independent organization of concerned citizens in Central
Illinois.  For more information about Champaign County Volunteers For A
Better America, please visit www.volunteersforabetteramerica.org.  Further
information about Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is available at
www.walmartmovie.com.

To reach the IBEW Hall (2901 Research Road, Champaign,(217) 352-1741)),
take Bloomington Road to Mattis. Go north on Mattis. At the second light
(Interstate Drive), turn right.  Then take the next left onto Research
Road.  IBEW Hall is the third building on the left.  It will be marked
with an American flag and an IBEW flag.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Linda Beale
Phone: (217) 369-9572
December 4, 2005


# # #

> Hello all.
> Does anyone know specific directions to the IBEW Union Hall where they
> will
> be screening Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices tomorrow night?
>
> Thanks, BD
>
> ---
> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
> 204 S. Lynn St.
> Champaign, IL 61208
> (217) 355-7947
> bdolinar at uiuc.edu
>
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace
>