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ROLLBACK
WAL-MART CONFERENCE
January
27-28, 2006
UMKC
University Center
Pierson
Hall
50th
& Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO
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the Rollback Wal-Mart Conference Video
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In
late January Wal-Mart will hold its annual Managers Convention in Kansas
City. While they plan to keep rolling back the American dream for workers
and communities, we’ll hold a counter conference to Rollback Wal-Mart
by building a broad movement to restore the dream of a society with
good jobs and democratic, sustainable communities. The conference
is not just about Wal-Mart. We focus on them because they’re the
trend-setters of corporate irresponsibility, but we think all retailers
and their suppliers need to respect workers’ rights and be responsible
citizens in communities where they operate. The conference will
develop strategy and provide needed skills to activate concerned citizens,
workers, and clergy.
AGENDA
- flyer
for poetry slam
Friday
January 27 - Unconventional
Entertainment
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The
Wal-Nut Suite – choreographed by Tuesday Faust
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Big Box Slam and Open Mike with prizes
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Music by Jim and Tommy Herrmann
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Music by Linda Chubbuck
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Guerilla theater by Brian Barnhart
Saturday
January 28
9:00 Keynote Speaker Andy Grossman, Wal-Mart Watch
9:30 Panel of Wal-Mart
workers from around the world (US,
Colombia, Nicaragua, The
Philippines)
10:15 Break
10:30 Breakout Session I - Workshops
11:45 Lunch
Phil Mattera,
author of Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart
Uses Taxpayer Money.
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Panel of Wal-Mart
Activists from the Region
1:15 Breakout Session 2
2:30 Break
2:45 Breakout Session 3
4:00 Rev. Spencer Barrett, Interfaith Worker Justice Kansas City
Workshops
• Outreach:
Delivering the message activating people
• Organizing small business to survive
• How to get the message in the media
• Writing chants and songs
• Banners and puppets for demonstrations
• Strategies to keep out big box stores
• “But I can’t afford not to shop at Wal- Mart"
- Realistic Shopping Alternatives
• Derailing Wal-Mart’s Corporate Welfare
• How
Wal-Mart fights unions and how unions are fighting back
• All the laws that Wal-Mart breaks: a primer on labor laws
• Countering Wal-Mart’s spin
• Would Jesus shop at Wal-Mart? Talking to your congregation
• Guerilla theater
• Building solidarity with Wal-Mart workers round the world
• Taking the “Wal-Mart is not cool” message to youth
• Community benefit agreements
Conference
Co-sponsors
Interfaith
Worker Justice
ReclaimDemocracy.org/KC
The Institute for Labor Studies
UAW Local 31
Tri-County Labor Council AFL-CIO
UFCW Local 2
United
Food & Commercial Workers International
SEIU Local 1
Greater KC Fair Trade Coalition
Cross Border Network
Kansas City Federation of Teachers
ACORN
Professional Airways Systems Specialists, (PASS) Chapter 253
Wal-Mart Watch
Wake Up Wal-Mart
Missouri AFL-CIO
Communications
Workers Local 6450
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