Campaign against Wal-Mart (India)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/12/stories/2007021205961200.htm

Campaign against Wal-Mart

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Leading trade unions have joined hands with cooperative stores, retail associations and small-scale traders to launch a campaign against retail giant Wal-Mart's backdoor entry into India and the Government's move to open up the retail sector for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

Over a score groups have signed a memorandum against Wal-Mart's entry and FDI in retail which will be submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday.

The memorandum — an initiative of India FDI Watch — states that Wal-Mart's entry and FDI in retail would result in widespread unemployment and massive displacement of people.

Quoting media reports which suggest that corporate retail chains would invest over 50 per cent into food retail — entering directly into contract farming where the implications on farmers has till date not been studied — the memorandum notes that with agriculture and unorganised retail sectors being the country's largest and second largest source of employment respectively, "there is no place for giant corporates like Wal-Mart and other multi-national retail chains, known for their monopolistic business practices abroad, in India."

FULL story at link.

[joneschick]

1. oh, good lord

vishnu, whatever. Let us pray that Wallyworld never gets a green light in India. I love India.

[manic expression]

2. Perhaps we should evoke Kali

to stop the Wal-Mart menace.

[joneschick]

4. that works. eom

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Jai Durga, Kali, Shiva

and all the goddesses and gods that would destroy that which is not for the good of the people.

[Bhaisahab]

5. We won't need goddesses

I went to a Protest Walmart rally in New Delhi last month, and I was surprised to find so many people who are aware of this malignant corporation and who are hellbent to deny it a foothold in India. I think the goddesses can continue resting as they have done for millenia. This is one thing the people can do by themselves.

[manic expression]

6. A Hindu would say

that someone who makes a speech is being helped by Saraswati. A Hindu would say that the goddesses aid us, even when it seems that we are alone.

That's a tangent, my real point in posting is to say thank you (to you and whoever was with you) for protesting these monsters.

[Vidar]

7. Glad to see the Indians have a better understanding of this

malevolent parasite than we Americans do.

[Doctor_J]

8. Indians can keep WalMart out, Ukranians can get a bogus election thrown out

why are WE so impotent? :cry: