DOES YOUR COMMUNITY HAVE WAL-MARTITIS? Symptoms include: swelling welfare rolls; depletion of public funds; exhaustion; difficulty making ends meet; and feverish profits. Contact the Bureau of Worker Health immediately.
The Ruckus Society has developed a campaign with other organizations to “quarantine” Wal-Mart.
From the Ruckus Society:
This Sunday a task force of 150 BWH Officers will mobilize to quarantine Wal-Mart’s senior management staff in Kansas City. That’s right–the top 6100 managers of Wal-Mart are meeting in Missouri this weekend to map out the rest of their plan of total global domination. Oddly, they are imposing a media blackout on this important meeting.
However, at 4:00pm this Sunday, Kansas City citizen deputies of the Bureau of Worker Health in HAZMAT suits, face shields and rubber gloves will attempt to “quarantine” the entire meeting at the Bartle Hall in downtown Kansas City. They will be equipped with yellow caution tape, health hazard signs and “Notices of Quarantine.” Officers of the Bureau will serve the notices to the Wal-Mart managers as they come in and out of the Center.
Dr. Andrew Boyd, BWH’s Quarantine Division Chief, bristled at Wal-Mart management’s accusations that the Quarantine was being undertaken frivolously. “Wal-Mart’s business model threatens the health and well-being of millions of low wage American Workers and their children. Moreover, their model has gone viral and threatens to become a national contagion. If we are unable to contain Wal-Martitis here in Kansas City we may be looking at a global pandemic.”
Wal-Mart’s failure to provide health care to a majority of its employees has received massive media exposure in recent moths. Two weeks ago, Maryland passed a law compelling Wal-Mart to improve its health care benefits. Now, several other states are moving forward with similar legislation–a nightmare scenario for Wal-Mart.
“It is outrageous that the largest corporation in the world has full-time workers who are forced to enroll in Medicaid at the Missouri tax-payers’ expense,” said Head Organizer of ACORN Kansas City, Andrew Ginsberg. The average pay for a Wal-Mart sales associate is $1,000 below the poverty line for a family of three. Wal-Mart employees top Medicaid rolls in at least 16 states.
When asked how they would respond to the BWH Quarantine, one senior Wal-Mart Vice President who insisted on anonymity, said “I don’t mind being kept in Kansas City. All I can expect at home are more uncomfortable dinner conversations with my kids about what I have to do for a living.”
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 
wal-mart action
ok I am one of the activists that attended sundays action in kansas city. Although we had fun I cant help wondering what is next. I feel that this bio theme we decided on worked. but is this just over. when asked whats next, an acorn member was said to have said that “now we are working on the police campaign.” We feel that there should be a union member or other activist posted in front of a wal-mart in every town in america wearing a hazmat suit. Let them know that its not just kansas city that does not welcome corp greed but the american people.