WakeUpWalMart.com supporters went back out to Wal-Mart locations today, on Halloween, to educate consumers about Wal-Mart's "scary" memo and to raise more money to provide health care for Wal-Mart workers. We wrapped up the Halloween weekend with candy fundraising events today in places like Denver, CO, Pittsburgh, PA, Pecos, TX, Joliet, IL, Philadelphia, PA, West Saint Paul, MN, and many more locations across the country. Events were held in cities big and small, rural and urban, west and east coast.
All told, thousands of volunteers in over 84 cities and 26 states will have taken part in well over 100 Halloween Candy Fundraisers. We got reports of events in locations we did not even know about. WakeUpWalMart.com supporters were on television in Phoenix, AZ, Cincinnati and Columbus, OH, Houston, TX, multiple cities in California, among other locations. We talked to hundreds and thousands of shoppers and many Wal-Mart workers.
We'll let you know how much grassroots fundraising we did after we hear back from everyone in the field. We know we handed out well over 100,000 flyers letting people know about Wal-Mart's "scary" leaked memo. (Last week's memo revealed that 46% of Wal-Mart's employee's children have no health care at all or are forced to rely on the public program).
For pictures from some of the Halloween Candy Sales, check out our photo gallery:
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/gallery/
Posted by Brendan - October 31, 2005 04:37 PM - In The News