Scaling the Great Wal-Mart of China

Scaling the Great Wal-Mart of China

In this print edition...

• Scaling the Great Wal-mart of China (down to size), by Yang Wanxiong
• An Integer is a Whole Number, by Michael S. Harper
• Bush's Tortured Logic: Marjorie Cohn Speaks Out on the State of Civil Liberties
• Poems to Mark African American History Month
• Current Letters (updated 1-24-07)
• Current Poetry (updated 1-24-07)

In recent years, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the largest labor organization in the world, has launched a time-consuming, seesaw battle with Wal-Mart, the largest multinational retailer in the world.

When Daisy died in June, 1979 I was at Yaddo, the Artists Retreat, in Saratoga Springs, NY; called to the phone by Eloise Spicer and returned to the dinner table without comment, the poet, June Jordan approached and said "across your face is the sign of death, who died?"

Right after 9/11 we saw a round up of people of Arab and Muslim descent, more than 1,200 people locked up with no charges. Many of them were abused and even tortured. Racial profiling and anti-immigrant bashing whipped up the frenzy in Congress for keeping immigrants out.