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brian oelbergWalmart Protest (2000)

500+ Workers, students, community and anti-sweatshop activists, Jobs with Justice, SEIU, Teamsters, UAW, and many others converge on the Hadley, MA WalMart for a day of protest against globalization and WalMart in solidarity with the protests in Prague, 9/26/00.

Note: ...25 seconds of black at the beginning...

Protest features a sweatshop fashion show, with filmmaker and USAS activist Michael Burns on the mic, Karl X reads a Robert Burns poem, Tom Taafe on the dismantling of affirmative action in higher education, Smith College radical cheerleaders, banjo playing folk singer, and a rainbow at sunset. Long live the people's republic of Amherst!


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Director: brian oelberg
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: walmart, labor, protest, union; teamsters, uaw, usas, jobs with justice; hadley, massachusetts, umass, amherst, students, workers
Contact Information: oelberg at lycos.com

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial

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Reviewer: skamunist - - March 26, 2005
Subject: WalMart needs to be organized!
once you get past the 25 seconds of black, the video looks and sounds pretty good, considering it came off 8mm videotape and went through a vcr to a vcd before becoming a wmv and converting to mpg before being uploaded and finding salvation as an mp4...

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flyer for rally
Hadley police
yadju dhamarajah
UMass labor prof Stephanie Luce is holding the bullhorn
michael burns
karl
sweatshop fashion show
Smith College radical cheerleaders
tom taafe
500+ marchers with signs, puppets
banjo player 'Keep on walking forward'
tuck
rainbow at sunset at walmart