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Wal-Mart Push Back On After Olympics Bust

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago

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Now that Mayor Daley's Olympic dream has gone up in flames, a South Side alderman is turning up the heat for City Council approval of Chicago's second...

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Wal-Mart Chicago Fight: Creating Jobs Pitted Against Protecting Small Businesses

Chicago Sun-Times | MARY MITCHELL | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago

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In many areas starved for retail businesses, welcoming a Wal-Mart would be a no-brainer. But Ald. Howard Brookins (21st) is having one heck of a time...

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We're Mad and We're Not Going to Take it Anymore

Ald. Howard Brookins | Posted 08.23.2009 | Chicago

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Many of our neighborhoods are suffering in food deserts and increasing violence, yet we are slamming our doors to the one food retailer who is ready to invest in our poorest neighborhoods without asking for any financial incentives?

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South Side Wal-Mart Plans Dead: Daley

AP | Posted 05.25.2009 | Chicago

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Mayor Richard Daley contends there is no chance the latest effort to have a Wal-Mart built on Chicago's South Side will succeed. Daley said Thursday ...

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Organized Labor Digging In Against Wal-Mart's Chicago Push

Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 04.03.2009 | Chicago

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Opposition to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is stiffening at City Hall even as the retailer pitches its expansion as an antidote to recession. [...] The reason...

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Nazis Need Birthday Cakes, Too

Disgrasian | Posted 01.17.2009 | Style

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All the Campbell's wanted was a birthday cake for their little Aryan, Adolf Hitler, who turned 3 last week. But, sadly, they just don't teach cake-writing in white supremacy class anymore.

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First Wal-Mart Union Begins In China

Raw Story | Andrew McLemore | Posted 08.11.2008 | Business

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The first Wal-Mart trade union in China was formed after the company bowed to government demands for organized labor in its stores, The New York Times...

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Anti-Wal-Mart Forces Mellowing Their Approach To Retail Giant

New York Times | Michael Barbaro | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business

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Over the last several months, a confidential report has circulated within the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores, proposing sweeping changes to its emplo...

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Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions

ABC's The Blotter | BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER and RHONDA SCHWARTZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world's largest retailer wa...

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