BuzzFlash Reviews
October 12 2005
WAL-MART:
The High Cost of Low Price (DVD)
by Robert Greenwald, Producer/Director
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If
you enjoyed "OutFoxed" and Robert Greenwald's other pro-democracy
political documentaries, we expect you'll be eagerly awaiting the premiere
of his newest production, an exposé of Wal-Mart. BuzzFlash, along
with other Internet sites, is offering advance orders of the DVD to ensure
that it gets the widest possible distribution and "buzz."
As America becomes increasingly Wal-Martized -- third world wages paid to workers to sell goods from third world countries to people who are jobless because their work has been sent overseas -- Greenwald has picked an appropriate subject to symbolize the decline in the standard of living for American workers -- and the emergence of Bushevik corporate tyranny over the rights and benefits of employees.
Greenwald is doing a brilliant job of rolling out "Wal-Mart" through a combination of meet-ups, theatrical showings, DVD sales and media promotion. Wal-Mart may appear an unstoppable juggernaut representing America's decline into the economic bottom of the barrel, but there are victories that have been won against Sam Walton's shlock house hydra. Don't forget that because of their horrendous lack of benefits, taxpayers subsidize the healthcare, daycare, and other governmental services for many Wal-Mart employees.
Wal-Mart is another Bushevik corporate welfare recipient, gorging at the public trough while proclaiming itself a triumph of capitalism. In fact, they are America's biggest subsidized retailer.
Greenwald is focusing his film on the victims of Wal-Mart: the people who have worked there. And, let's not forget the numerous small business owners who are wiped out whenever a Wal-Mart opens. And, we the taxpayers who underwrite Wal-Mart's cheap labor policies. And the list goes on and on.
We look forward to "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" as much as you.
To get you in the mood, here is a scene BuzzFlash did for Free Speech TV's "Sourcecode" on Wal-Mart. We expect Greenwald has a similar story to tell, but with real people.
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