[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]

My sign will say, "We pay for the Food Stamps Wal-Mart workers need"

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> -----
> 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….



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-- karen medina
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