Dueling Wal-Mart documentaries coming to DVD

[LynneSin]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/26/AR2005102601686.html

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dueling documentaries on the world's biggest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are set to be released in the next few weeks and public relations machines on both sides are gearing up for a battle.

First out on DVD is Robert Greenwald's "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price," which portrays the company as a behemoth that destroys small towns and pays poverty-level wages.


The documentary will be shown in some 3,000 screenings at private homes, churches and elsewhere across the United States in early November, and in a limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles on November 4.

Wal-Mart Watch, a group that was initially financed by the Service Employees International Union and is pressing Wal-Mart to change its labor and other practices, has promoted the film on its Web site and helped organize screenings.

Next comes "Why Wal-Mart Works: And Why That Drives Some People Crazy," a documentary that started as a book about the retailer's vaunted logistics operations, but morphed into a film about working families who benefited from Wal-Mart.

Ron Galloway, who made the film with his brother Robert, said he financed the $80,000 project himself, and Wal-Mart was only marginally cooperative at first. It didn't even answer his phone calls. The brothers pushed up the release date to November 12 to capitalize on media attention surrounding Greenwald's film.

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BTW, if you're interested in pre-ordering this DVD

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932857249/102-8006544-3315305?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

Let's help Robert Greenwald - he's put out some quality stuff and this deserves our support

[400Years]

1. Yeah, I reaaalllly believe Ron Galloway had no help at all

gimme a break

[walldude]

2. LMAO.. Working families that benefit from Wal-Mart?

I guess they are benefitting from Wal-Mart's how to's on getting food stamps, welfare and Medicare/Medicade to help supplement their below living wages..