Friday April 27 @ 12pm: Change Wal-Mart Massachusetts coalition demands that Wal-Mart local Board-member Dr. Cash reveal community financial activity.

Media Advisory:

For tomorrow, Friday, April 27th @ 12pm
Contact: Russ Davis (617) 413-0713, russdavis@comcast.net
             Edwin Argueta (617) 335-9501, edwin@massjwj.net,

Friday: Members of the coalition Change Walmart Massachusetts are demanding that Walmart publicly divulge their financial contributions to elected officials, organizations, and community leaders. 

Boston, MA - Coalition members are deeply concerned that Walmart is continuing their legacy of using money and fear to coerce local communities into accepting their expansion plans.  The coalition is demanding to know how much money Walmart has contributed to local officials and nonprofit organizations through their lobbyists and the Walton Family Foundation and what, if anything, was promised in return.

“Communities must be able to decide democratically what is right for them without outside money interfering.  Walmart has shown over and over that it does not care if its actions are ethically or legally wrong – as long as there are profits to be made.” said Russ Davis, Executive Director of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice.  “We are also calling on locally based Walmart board member Dr. James Cash to support the call for resignations of top executives who are implicated in the bribery scandal.”

Dr. James Cash works at the General Catalyst Partners in Harvard Square, Cambridge and is a professor emeritus of the Harvard Business School.  He is on the Board of several corporations, including GE.  He has yet to make a public statement about Walmart’s bribery and corruption scandal in Mexico.

When: Tomorrow, Friday, April 27th @ 12 noon.

Where: Gathering at Harvard Square Kiosk and then walking to Dr. Cash's office at 20 University Rd. Cambridge, MA

Who: Change Walmart Massachusetts, coalition includes Union of Minority Neighborhoods, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, City Life/ Vida Urbana, the Boston Workers Alliance, Change at Wal-Mart, IBEW 103, and many others.
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