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Sites about alleged unethical or illegal conduct by discount store franchise Wal-Mart.

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• Anti-Wal-Mart Activism

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• Blog Against the Wal

  http://blogagainstthewal.blogspot.com/
  A weblog designed to spread the anti Wal-Mart message through the internet.

• Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs [PDF]

  http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2004/walmart.pdf
  UC Berkeley study finds that use of safety net programs by Wal-Mart workers in California is higher than average for the retail industry.

• Making Change at Walmart

  http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/
  Wal-Mart's impact on local ways of living: small businesses, people who know what they are selling, community relationships that all vanish when Wal-Mart moves in.

• NPR : Slate's Michael Kinsley: Wal-Mart Love-Hate

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1578326
  Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley shares his thoughts with NPR's Alex Chadwick about the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart, and how a company that generates so much antagonism can be so successful. [5:14 Realaudio streaming broadcast]

• NPR : Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott on Being on Top

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1803960
  NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Wal-Mart president and CEO Lee Scott about the benefits of being a top Fortune 500 company and the problems that come with the prestige. [13-minute Realaudio streaming broadcast]

• NPR : Wal-Mart Prices Put Onus on Suppliers

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1572652
  Wal-Mart's low prices place severe demands on the discount chain's suppliers, according to a magazine report. A demand to cut prices 5 percent every year has forced some suppliers into bankruptcy and prompted others to shut down American factories for cheaper labor abroad. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and Charles Fishman of Fast Company magazine. [9-minute Realaudio streaming broadcast]

• The Huge Class Action Sex Discrimination Suit Against Wal-Mart

  http://writ.news.findlaw.com/sebok/20040809.html
  Professor Anthony J. Sebok examines the issue of whether the discrimination suit against the retailer should proceed as a class action.

• The Wal-Mart Effect

  http://www.latimes.com/la-walmart-sg-storygallery.html
  A three-part series from the Los Angeles Times profiling the retail giant and its business practices. [Free registration required to view this content]

• The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

  http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
  Fast Company looks at Wal-Mart's pricing practices and their sometimes devastating pressures it exerts on the companies it does business with.

• Wal-Mart Censorship

  http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/01.09.97/walmart-music-9702.html
  Examines the issue of company's cultural censorship of rock and rap CDs by artists like Marilyn Manson, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sheryl Crow. [MetroActive]

• Wal-Mart Litigation Project

  http://www.wal-martlitigation.com/
  Tracks information about litigation involving Wal-mart, and provides support services to attorneys who have already sued Wal-Mart.

• WalMart Class

  http://www.walmartclass.com/
  Sex discrimination lawsuit alleging denial of advancement and training, lower wages, sexually hostile work environment and retaliation.

• WalMart is Bad for Business

  http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/badbusiness.html
  An educator and activist worries about the effect of Wal-Mart on the economy, workers, taxpayers, the environment, and National Public Radio.

• WalmartSucks.org

  http://walmartsucksorg.blogspot.com/
  Complaint site.

• When Wal-Mart Comes to Town

  http://www.inc.com/magazine/19930701/3644.html
  Inc. Magazine's article about how a small Maine town reacted to Wal-Mart's opening three stores in the area.

• Why Britain Can't Afford Wal-Mart

  http://www.andyrowell.com/articles/suckers_walmart.html
  "Andy Rowell explains why Wal-Mart's much trumpeted arrival in Britain is likely to spell disaster for local communities." [The Ecologist]

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