[Peace] Please consider joining us for a (mid Christmas shopping) demonstration against Wal-Mart today, Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Where: The north Prospect store. 2610 N Prospect Ave Champaign, IL 61822 Time: 5:30pm to 6:30pm

[Karen Medina]

Please consider joining us for a (mid Christmas shopping)
demonstration against Wal-Mart today, Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Where: The north Prospect store. 2610 N Prospect Ave Champaign, IL 61822
Time: 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Why: So many people are at Wal-Mart for their Christmas shopping
Wal-Mart stores are bad for the environment(1),
bad for the workers,
bad for the contractors,
bad for the community,
bad for the economy
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1) Local environment: The Champaign North Prospect Wal-mart moved from
one super-sized building (built in 1991) and built a completely new
store (2005), 33-acres across the street.

Stores are huge: the North Prospect one is 204,000 square feet. The
parking lots are huge, in addition to the outlots and gas station.

2) Wal-Mart jobs are poverty jobs.
* The average pay for a Wal-Mart employee is less than 70% of the
poverty line for a family of four.
* Wal-Mart leaves workers uninsured.
* Taxpayers Subsidize Walmart’s Low Wages and Poor Benefits – In many
states across the country, Walmart is the employer with the largest
number of employees and dependents using taxpayer-funded health
insurance programs.
* a 2007 study found that, as of that date, Walmart had received more
than $1.2 billion in tax breaks, free land, infrastructure assistance,
low-cost financing and outright grants from state and local
governments around the country.
* Wal-Mart store openings destroy almost three local jobs for every
two they create by reducing retail employment by an average of 2.7
percent in every county they enter.
* Walmart cost America an estimated 196,000 jobs – mainly
manufacturing jobs – between 2001 and 2006 as a result of the
company’s imports from China.
* I am looking for data on how many Wal-Mart employees in Illinois are
on Food Stamps….