This week's Bill Moyers NOW: Wal-Mart, Samantha Power, ICC, more...

[Wonk]

http://www.pbs.org/now/thisweek/index.html

This week on NOW:

Wal-Mart has become the world's largest retailer in part because of a simple idea: "always low prices." But critics of the retailing giant say that in many communities taxpayers are picking up the costs that keep Wal-Mart's prices low and their profits high. NOW goes to Las Vegas and to California, where Wal-Mart has plans to open 40 new "supercenters" in the next four years, and examines the real costs of Wal-Mart to taxpayers and communities. The investigation looks at allegations that Wal-Mart guides its low-paid workers to public assistance and at what happened in one community that spent millions in subsidies to Wal-Mart in hopes of economic benefit.
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/walmart.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/economy2.html

As questions arise as to the fate of Saddam Hussein, David Brancaccio talks to Samantha Power, who was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for her non-fiction book, A PROBLEM FROM HELL: AMERICA AND THE AGE OF GENOCIDE and founded the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. Power will discuss the matter of meting out justice to former tyrannical leaders like Saddam Hussein, the International Criminal Court at The Hague, and about her conversation with General Wesley Clark, who just returned from testifying at the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/power.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/foreignpress.html

David Brancaccio interviews former Governor of Maine Angus King, who left office this past January after serving eight years as one of only two Independent governors in the United States. Governor King shares his views on everything from the economy to homeland security to building casinos for state revenue, and tells Brancaccio why he thinks bipartisan politics isn't accurately representing what the public really wants.
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/king.html
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/budgetmap.html

Check your local listings.
http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html

[Wonk]

1. kick

[Wonk]

10. mp3s for those who missed it

Wal-Mart, 4 M

Samantha Power, re: ICC, 4 M

Angus King, 3 M

NRA TV, 1 M

[Wonk]

12. Quicktime video of the Wal-Mart segment here

62 M

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14. Thx guys!!!

My bro needs to see this one. Good segment on the not so "free trade" issue.

[Wonk]

17. More quicktimes here

Samantha Power, 52 M

Angus King, 43 M

NRA TV, 12 M

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13. thanks Wonk, I really appreciate your mp3s! nt

[Toucano]

2. Thanks for the alert.

Tivo always records it, but now I have something to look forward to!

[revcarol]

3. Anyone remember back to the time when WalMart said to shop

at their stores because they "bought American" and their trucks were emblazoned with this too. Now you can hardly find ANYTHING American-made in their stores.

JUST HAD TO GET THAT NASTY OUT OF MY SYSTEM.

[Wonk]

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[Lorien]

5. Kick

for the most informative show on television!

[Tansy_Gold]

6. Kick, because I *HATE* Wal-Mart

and I want everyone to see how thoroughly despicable they are.

Moyers should have devoted an entire hour to them.

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[Wonk]

18. A kick for Sunday viewers

[JanMichael]

19. I hate them more!

So phffft!

No kidding, there ought to be a real organisation devoted to Democracizing that Behemoth.

[ldf]

7. every city, county, municipality

that is considering wooing walmart into their neck of the woods needs to watch this episode of now.

it pretty much tells it like it is.

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8. NRA TV parody on

NOW; Daily Show makes NOW TWICE!!! Great show. Thx for the heads up.

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On edit: Glad to see the primary forum return GD to itz rootz!!!!

[Myra]

9. Thank you for sending this schedule!

So glad to see Moyers taking a close look at WalMart.
Taxpayer money does have to be used to mop up after them.
Why would a community want to lure them there?

"Living wage? Valerie Gonzales needs food stamps and emergency room health care to support her family while making $7.79 an hour at Wal-Mart."

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/magazine/walmart.cfm

No wonder Business Week warns about the "Wal-Martization" of the economy.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040105&c=1&s=krugman

[Terwilliger]

11. kick for the left coast

[oasis]

15. WalMart ripping off workers, taxpayers and communities.

:-(

[peekaloo]

16. I bet CBS News would never run this story.

unless, of course, they find another deep pocket advertiser.

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