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Walmart Workers Protest Low Wages At Annual Meeting: ‘I Cannot Survive Like This’

Last Friday, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer and America’s biggest welfare queen, held its annual meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas. The activity-filled event attracted workers, shareholders, and executives from all around the world to celebrate their giant profits and company culture.
Over 14,000 people attended the event, including celebrities like Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé, displaying the retailer’s marketing power and budget. Of course, all of Sam Walton’s heirs were there, flaunting their status as some of the richest and most heartless people on the planet.
However, this year’s meeting was not as celebratory as usual, as Walmart is facing increased pressure from the public after a series of strikes and protests over employee pay and working conditions.
Walmart’s outsourcing of labor to factories in third-world countries with poor safety records is also under fire.  Lobbying group Making Change at Walmart raised over $9,000 on the crowdsourcing site Indiegogo to bring Kalpona Akter, a former child textile laborer from Bangladesh, to the meeting. She was accompanied by Sumi Abedin, a survivor of the deadly fire that killed at least 112 garment workers at the Tazreen Fashion factory on the outskirts of Dhaka last year.
Akter joined others in calling on Walmart to sign a legally binding agreement to improve working conditions in Bangladesh’s textile factories, an agreement that has already been signed by many of the company’s rivals following a horrific  building collapse in April that left over 1,127 factory workers dead and an entire nation in mourning.
They were joined by workers from Walmart’s supply-chain side, who complained about work conditions and retaliation against anyone who reports these issues, as well as retail-side employees who were protesting such measly hourly wages that they are forced to rely on government subsidized programs such as food stamps and Medicaid benefits in order to feed and sustain themselves and their families.
Here are three of the protesters that made an impact on Walmart at this year’s meeting:

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