Starting Date: 01-27-2006
Ending Date: 01-28-2006
University Of Missouri, Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri 64101
United Statesn late January Wal-Mart hold its annual Managers Convention in Kansas City. While they plan to keep rolling back the American dream for workers and communities, we�ll hold a counter conference to Rollback Wal-Mart by building a broad movement to restore the dream of a society with good jobs and democratic, sustainable communities. The conference is not just about Wal-Mart. We focus on them because they�re the trend-setters of corporate irresponsibility, but we think all retailers and their suppliers need to respect workers� rights and be responsible citizens in communities where they operate. The conference will develop strategy and provide needed skills to activate concerned citizens, workers, and clergy.
AGENDA
Friday January 27 - Unconventional Entertainment
The Wal-Nut Suite � choreographed by Tuesday Faust
Big Box Slam and Open Mike with prizes
Music by Jim and Tommy Herrmann
Saturday January 28
9:00 Keynote Speaker Andy Grossman, Wal-Mart Watch
9:30 Panel of Wal-Mart workers from around the world (US, Colombia, Nicaragua, The Philippines)
10:15 Break
10:30 Breakout Session I - Workshops
11:45 Lunch
Phil Mattera, author of Shopping for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart
Uses Taxpayer Money. . .
Panel of Wal-Mart Activists from the Region
1:15 Breakout Session 2
2:30 Break
2:45 Breakout Session 3
4:00 Rev. Spencer Barrett, Interfaith Worker Justice Kansas City
Workshops
� Outreach: Delivering the message activating people
� Organizing small business to survive
� How to get the message in the media
� Writing chants and songs
� Banners and puppets for demonstrations
� Strategies to keep out big box stores
� �But I can�t afford not to shop at Wal- Mart" - Realistic Shopping Alternatives
� Derailing Wal-Mart�s Corporate Welfare
� How Wal-Mart fights unions and how unions are fighting back
� All the laws that Wal-Mart breaks: a primer on labor laws
� Countering Wal-Mart�s spin
� Would Jesus shop at Wal-Mart? Talking to your congregation
� Guerilla theater
� Building solidarity with Wal-Mart workers round the world
� Taking the �Wal-Mart is not cool� message to youth
� Community benefit agreements
Conference Co-sponsors
Interfaith Worker Justice
ReclaimDemocracy.org/KC
The Institute for Labor Studies
UAW Local 31
Tri-County Labor Council AFL-CIO
UFCW Local 2
SEIU Local 1
Greater KC Fair Trade Coalition
Cross Border Network
Kansas City Federation of Teachers
ACORN
Professional Airways Systems Specialists, (PASS) Chapter 253
Wal-Mart Watch
Wake Up Wal-Mart
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