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robertgreenwald · Thursday July 19, 02:28 PM
What a great joy to hear the news yesterday that the grocery workers have gotten a decent deal.
After focusing on the fact they haven’t had a raise in 5 years, the fact that the CEOs are making millions, and the fact that they are desperate for healthcare, this was wonderful news indeed.
A big thanks to all of you who saw the Supermarket Swindle videos we did, signed the pledge, and were ready to stop shopping at the stores if there was a lock out.
It was a pleasure to work with the grocery union and to use our story telling skills to support their efforts.
I heard John Gibson's radio Co-Host refer to you as George Soros' "version of Leni Riefenstah." That seems the perfect description.
Fist of all, let me compliment you on the movie I just watched on HBO. Second, I really feel an area that has been drastically overlooked is the amount of goods wal-mart buys from china and the unspoken demand they put on there local distrubtors to relocate fatories to china in order to keep cost where walmart wants (For a business they can be a huge customer). Also the devasting effect they have on commerece on all local manufacters of goods because of chinas pricepoints and margains on products, which in some cases, concering manufacturing of particular items, in smaller towns it can lead to a loss of a plants high paying jobs. I would explain how walmart globally sells a majority of chinese goods, and somehow focus in depth in this area. Just saying something I can't believe, that is why the owners are worth around 1oo billion in total. It's because the landed price on the products in comparision are completely different then when they purchased american goods.
Good luck in all you do. Stop them every where they go.
Chad D.
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Great job Brave New Films keeping the grocery worker's cause in the public eye!
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