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PROGRESSIVE ACTION ANNUAL
MEETING/POTLUCK AND FORUM!
Plus a special holiday price
on
“Wal-Mart,
The High Cost of Low Price” DVD
On Sunday November 20th at 6 p.m. Progressive Action will present the forum, “In Sickness and in Health… When the political marriage of ideals and vision requires counseling.”
Inspired by the heated debate following the recent rezoning for the controversial Sugarloaf housing development in Duluth, the forum seeks to find answers to the question every community faces: “How can progressives stay together over the long haul, even when we vehemently disagree?”
Forum panelists will include Duluth City Councilors Russ Stewart and Greg Gilbert, former Hermantown City Councilor Deb Ortman, civic activist and UWS history professor Joel Sipress, Douglas County Supervisor Dave Conley, and St. Louis County Commissioners Peg Sweeney and Steve O’Neil. A Q&A session with the audience follows.
The “In Sickness and in Health” forum is part of Progressive Action’s Annual Meeting/Potluck and will be held in Wellstone Hall (lower level of the Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Road). The forum is free and open to the public. Please bring a potluck item if you can (but please join in the meal in any case!). Beverages, plates, etc. will be provided.
The Annual Membership Meeting follows the forum and is open to all current Progressive Action members. (You can join that night, if you haven't yet, by signing on to the Progressive Action Mission and Principles statement and paying an optional $5 yearly membership fee.)
Also! We’re pleased to announce that at the event Progressive Action will be making available for sale the DVD, “Wal-Mart, The High Cost of Low Price.” Normally a few dollars more in price, Progressive Action will be selling copies of the film for only $10. Perfect for the people on your holiday list, especially those who shop at Wal-Mart and don’t know why we shouldn’t.
Here’s what the makers of the film, “Wal-Mart, The High Cost of Low Price” have to say about their amazing and courageous film project:
“We really touched a nerve in Bentonville when we released an extended video of former Wal-Mart manager Weldon Nicholson, just one of the stories we tell in the film. A manager for 17 years, he confesses deeply personal stories about his crisis of conscience, how it was to see workers who couldn't afford to eat, marking family businesses for destruction, and bribing local officials.”
“Six weeks after we announced the film, Wal-Mart hired Ronald Reagan's image guru and one of Bill Clinton's media consultants to set up the best campaign-style war room money can buy, who released to the press both a video and 12 pages of attacks on me and the trailer. The most incredible part was the three pages of bad reviews from my older films -- dating back to 1980!”
”Big mistake. Now that Wal-Mart has made this a war, it's brought the campaign to the Today Show, and landed us on the front page of the New York Times, hours before the sold-out premiere in Union Square benefiting Wal-Mart Free NYC. “
“This is it. With the movie and the incendiary secret memo leaked to Wal-Mart Watch, we can really go on the offensive, and we need your help. Call your local newspaper or tv/radio station to cover this story. Get a copy of the film and show it at every possible place. Give copies away. Make sure churches, schools, libraries and workplaces all have copies and play them loud and regularly. Call the office of your elected official and ask what they are doing to fight Wal-Mart.”
Please join us on November 20th. For more information on this Progressive Action event, contact Tim Musick at tmmusick@aol.com.
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