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Walmart is eyeing a community south of Salt Lake – Saratoga Springs. The artile headline in today’s Deseret News reads:
Wal-Mart eyes Saratoga:Officials see a need in north Utah County city

See a need? The mayor sees this possiblity as “a great thing”.

Meanwhile, the giant corporation has hired more lobbyists this week to ramp up its opposition to a groundbreaking bill that would force the retail giant to offer better benefits, a step that could be replicated in state houses across the nation next year.
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price will be shown by the and Free Speech Zone this Saturday.

Wal-Mart has been engaging in a smear campaign against the film and its filmmaker, Robert Greenwald. Wal-Mart uses phrases and terms like:
A “CONTORTED VISION”
“FABRICATED”
“SENSATIONALIZED”
“A DISINGENUOUS CARICATURE”
and
“A HOLLYWOOD ELITIST”
“FAILED FANTASY FILMMAKER”

The producers remixed Wal-Mart’s smear video. It’s clever.

There are over 7,000 screenings being held. Let’s hope that this will be yet one more step in helping Davey to Win

SometimesDavey wins but sometimes Davey suffers a setback.

Voters in Sandy, Utah yesterday voted 53% to 47% to develop a 107-acre former gravel pit which will have in its retail complex superstores like Walmart and Lowe’s Home Improvement store. The land is owned by Boyer Company, a giant developer in Utah.

It is probably the case that the people with the most money spent it advertising to get people who are easily swayed by corporate advertising to vote “yes”. The article quotes:

Save Our Communities, whose members opposed the zone change, campaigned vigorously against the change, but ultimately did not have the resources or votes to prevail….Friends of Quarry Bend, the committee formed in favor of the zone change, spent “apparently enough to win,” according to Kelly Casaday, the group’s spokesman. The majority of Quarry Bend’s money came from Wal-Mart, and the group ran several radio ads and produced direct mailers.

But wait – the vote was almost split 50-50, so nearly half the people that voted don’t want Walmart.

Dang I wish we had instant run-off voting.

A sign urging voters to approve development in Sandy gravel pit stands outside area Tuesday. Measure passed 53 percent to 47 percent.
(Deseret News Photo)

The Green Party of Utah will be showing the film “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” on Saturday, November 19.

Ken Sain wrote an article on WalMart and I commented on it with information on the recent smear campaign by WalMart against the filmmaker Robert Greenfield.

Today, Common Dreams has the article,Wal-Mart: Is This the Worst Company in the World? by Independent journalist Andrew Gumbel. In it, Gumbel explains how WalMart is going to great lengths to get Greenfield’s film shut down.

Are they scared? They should be because sometimes Davey Wins.

Laura Love has a song she wrote called “Sometimes Davey Wins”, inspired by a community that kept a Wal-Mart (the “Goliath”) from being built in its town.

As reported in today’s Deseret News a proposed Wal-Mart Super Center has been a center of controversy in Centerville, Utah for two years. The Centerville Planning Commission is make a decision next Wednesday on whether to approve the final site. A citizens group is considering a lawsuit or referendum if the Wal-Mart gets final approval.

Let’s hope Davey wins in this case.