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...gonna go organize Wal-Mart...
...focusing on one of the most bigoted and brutal states in America, student activists shocked the country into paying attention. They used Mississippi to illustrate the worst that racism was capable of. What our parents did in Mississippi, we can do in the suburbs and rural areas where Wal-Mart is rapidly expanding its hold...
...Wal-Mart is more than a particularly egregious violator of workers’ rights. It has become a symbol of corporate excess. A union at Wal-Mart would show that workers can succeed against even the most powerful of corporate giants. Just an attempt to organize Wal-Mart employees would dramatize the gross disparities in wealth that have come to characterize American society. A public struggle between a CEO who takes home several million dollars a year and his employees, earning a little over the $5.15 federal minimum wage, would demonstrate the kind of greed and exploitation that exists...
...Wal-Mart campaign would call on the best instincts of the progressive movement. It would force progressives to focus their energies on the poorest of the working poor: the people who most need help and have the fewest supporters. And it would help the poorest of the poor help themselves. Labor laws are important, but they are no substitute for a strong union that can fight for the real interests of workers. A union at Wal-Mart would do more than any social welfare program to help low wage workers, because it would give the workers themselves the power...
...potential effect on politics and the American economy of a Wal-Mart campaign is earth-shattering. Young people need a crusade. We need a movement that calls for the best in us. Let’s start with the toughest challenge out there. Let’s start with Wal-Mart...