"Wal-Mart" Movie Screening | by Ben
I've just signed up do to a screening of the new Wal-Mart documentary at my house in north Austin on Sunday, November 13th at 6PM. You can RSVP for the screening at this website, or you can look for other screenings in Austin or around the country at this page.
I got to meet some of the filmmakers at Democracy Fest back in June. They are the ones who did Outfoxed back in 2004, an expose of the bias at the Fox News Channel. They've got a smart campaign to release this film, with different themes for each day of the release week. The effort to both make the film and get it publicity has been huge and widespread; they've been talking to customers, employees, suppliers, management, politicians, health care workers, and churches to get stories about how Wal-Mart affects the communities in which it's located. I have high hopes that the final product will be thought provoking and a useful contribution to the debates on issues like living wages, universal health care, and globalization.