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OUR Walmart: nurturing caring communities for courageous action

By building an alternative culture from within, workers at one of the world’s most exploitative corporations are planting the seeds of social transformation.

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“Americans fear a life of ‘dead-end crap jobs with crap wages’,” proclaimed a recent CNN headline, as polls of Democratic and Republican voters in every state show what everyone already knows: economic insecurity is a top issue in the 2016 presidential elections. This fear, along with anger at “the establishment” for creating the insecurity, is bringing a surge of Sanders supporters on the Left and a dangerous cocktail of unbridled anger, racism and xenophobia on the Right.