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88. Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle, pp. 3–4.

89. Ibid., pp. 5–6.

90. Ibid.

91. Ibid.

92. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.

93. Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle, p. 40.

94. “The Real Facts About Wal-Mart,” WakeUpWalMart (wakeupwalmart.com/facts/), based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm).

95. “The Real Facts About Wal-Mart,” quoting directly from Wal-Mart’s “A Manager’s Toolbox to Remaining Union Free,” pp. 20–21.

96. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.

97. Ross Perot with Pat Choate, Save Your Job, Save Our Country (New York: Hyperion Books, 1993), p. 41.

98. Thomas Friedman, “Mexico feels job-loss pain,” Arizona Daily Star, April 3, 2004 (azstarnet.com/sn/related/16486).

99. Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle, p. xv.

100. Uri Berliner, “Haves and Have-Nots: Income Inequality in America,” National Public Radio, February 5, 2007 (npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7180618).

101. John M. Broder, “California Voters Reject Wal-Mart Initiative,” The New York Times, April 7, 2004 (nytimes.com/2004/04/07/national/07CND-WALM.html).

102. Ellwood, The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization, pp. 24–27.

103. Ibid.

104. Ibid., pp. 27–34.

105. “World Bank energy complex creates hell on earth for Indian citizens,” Probe International, March 1, 1998 (probeinternational.org/export-credit/world-bank-energy-complex-creates-hell-earth-indian-citizens).

106. “About Us,” The World Bank (web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/

EXTABOUTUS/0,,contentMDK:20040565~menuPK:

1696892~pagePK:51123644~piPK:329829~

theSitePK:29708,00.html).

107. Amitayu Sen Gupta, “Debt elief for LDCs: The new Trojan Horse of Neo-Liberalism,” International Development Economics Associates (networkideas.org/news/aug2006/Debt_Relief.pdf).

108. “Status of Kenya’s Debt,” fact sheet, Jubilee USA (jubileeusa.org/fileadmin/user_upload/

Resources/Kenya_2005.pdf), citing Njoki Githethwa, “Government of Kenya should declare official position on debt,” press release from the Kenya Debt Relief Network, July 19, 2005 (odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=13408).

109. “How Big is the Debt of Poor Countries?” Jubilee Debt Campaign (jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/2 How big is the debt of poor countries%3F+2647.twl).

110. Ibid.

111. “World Bank/IMF Questions and Answers,” Global Exchange (globalexchange.org/campaigns/wbimf/faq.html). See also 50 Years Is Enough, a campaign of the U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice (50years.org/issues/).

112. “H.R. 2634: Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation of 2008,” Open Congress (opencongress.org/bill/110-h2634/actions_votes).

113. “Clinton pledges more than $50m in aid for Haiti,” Agence France-Presse, April 14, 2009 (google.com/hostednews/afp/article/

ALeqM5i0vtqlmpiKI-5VkFrRKXqINsYsJw).

114. “Top Reasons to Oppose the WTO,” Global Exchange (globalexchange.org/campaigns/wto/OpposeWTO.html). See also Ellwood, The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization, p. 34.

115. Ellwood, The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization, pp. 36–37.

116. Amory Starr, Global Revolt: A guide to the movements against globalization (London: Zed Books, 2005), p. 30.

117. For images of the 1999 Battle of Seattle, see youtube.com/watch?v=_JXPIBsxdk$; youtube.com/watch?v=YdACqgxRLsQ; video.google.com/videosearch?q=News+WTO+Seattle+1999&hl=en&client=firefox-a&emb=0&aq=f#.

118. “A Million Farmers Protest Against the WTO in India,” Karnataka State Farmers’ Association, March 21, 2001 (organicconsumers.org/corp/wtoindia.cfm).

119. “Memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister: Keep Agriculture Out of WTO,” Members of the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements, October 2, 2005 (focusweb.org/india/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=744&Itemid=30).

120. “Suicide and protests mar summit,” BBC News, September 11, 2003 (news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3098916.stm).

121. “South Korea Activist Kills Himself, Others Injured in Cancun Protest,” Agence France-Presse, September 11, 2003 (commondreams.org/headlines03/0911–06.htm).

122. “TRADE Act

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