Stop
Wal-Mart From Building
At The Ancient Temple Site of Teotihuacan!
Wal-Mart Inc. plans to build a huge 7-1/2 acre Supercenter a 1/2 mile from the great the pyramids of Teotihuacan near Mexico City. The ancient temples at Teotihuacan include the awesome Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon and others in a city that dates back 2,000 + years. Teotihuacan was the sixth largest city in the world during its period of greatest prosperity, where as many as half-million people once lived as a community. Allowing this construction to take place alongside one of the world's most remarkable ancient treasures, would be to destroy Mexico's deepest roots in exchange for short-term interests like lower prices and investor bottom lines. The Wal-Mart construction site is currently visible from atop the Pyramid of the Sun that has defined the skyline for over 2,000 years.
Teotihuacan means "Place where the Gods touch the Earth" not "Place where materialism and exploitation touch the Earth." WalMart is the number one retailer in the world with 4900 stores in 10 countries. The majority of their products are made in China - the world's NUMBER ONE VIOLATOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS! This is a perfect reflection of the degradation happening to the Earth at large - global, corporate interests operating with no regard for what is ancient, sacred or meaningful.
"Any appreciation of ancient Meso-America's architectural splendour must begin with Teotihuacán, the City of the Gods. Its two gigantic pyramid temples, dating from about the time of Christ, are the largest and oldest in the Americas and were models for all the rest." — John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of The World.
PLEASE
SIGN THESE TWO PETITIONS AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS NOW
AS THE CONSTRUCTION IS ALREADY UNDERWAY!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/389702706
http://www.petitiononline.com/chicano1/petition.html
Read about the legal battle filed by local citizens of Teotihuacan: www.cnn.com
MORE ABOUT WAL
MART
Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc. is the world's largest retail company, with annual sales exceeding
$218 billion. In
the year 2000, Wal-Mart was sued 4,851 times – or about once every 2 hours,
every day of the year!
Get a broad perspective on the Truth Behind the Cheap Prices from the
Wal-Mart
Worker's Campaign
The
National Organization for Women (NOW) declares Wal-Mart:
"A Merchant of Shame."
If
you're not opposed to Wal-Mart's practices yet, read
"Big Brother Comes to Wal-Mart."
Supporting Wal-Mart Directly Supports Human Rights Violators
Wal-Mart China's director of external affairs, said China is Wal-Mart's most important supplier in the world. Its inventory of stock produced in China is expected to hit US $18 billion this year, keeping the annual growth rate of over 20 per cent consistent over two years. The trend is expected to continue, company officials revealed. "If Wal-Mart were an individual economy, it would rank as China's eighth-biggest trading partner, ahead of Russia, Australia and Canada," Xu said." (China Business Weekly 2004-11-29).
"China
is known as The World's Number One Human Rights Violator with such
major abuses as: commercial harvesting of transplant organs of executed prisoners;
wholesale and indiscriminate application of the death penalty; sweeping and
brutal repression of all religions; forced abortions and compulsory sterilization;
denial of basic labour rights to Chinese workers and farmers; criminal psychiatric
abuse of political prisoners; routine torture of prisoners; draconian repression
in East Turkestan, maintenance of the world’s largest system of forced
labour camps, and so on.
"The single largest importer of Chinese-made products in the world is the
American supermarket chain Wal-Mart. Charlie Kernaghan of the National
Labor Committee reports that Wal-Mart's harsh labor policies were 'actually
lowering standards in China, slashing wages and benefits, imposing
long, mandatory overtime shifts, while tolerating the arbitrary firing of workers
who even dare to discuss factory conditions.'
"After
conducting on-site investigations and interviews with Chinese workers at Wal-Mart
factories in China, the National Labor Committee issued a report describing
the abysmal treatment of workers at such manufacturing plants.
One particular section of the report on the Qin Shi handbag factory describes:
14-hour shifts, 7 days a week, 30 days a month;average take-home pay
of 3 cents an hour, $3.10 for a 98-hour workweek; one worker earning
36 cents for an entire month's work;46 percent of the workers earning
nothing at all and actually in debt to the company; workers held as
indentured servants, with identification documents confiscated, only allowed
to leave the factory 1 hours a day; and 800 workers fired for fighting
for their basic rights."
-From www.boycottmadeinchina.org
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