Posted on 05/06/2007 8:58:28 PM PDT by BGHater
It's a David versus Goliath battle heating up in the Hill Country — a group of nuns from Boerne is taking a stand against Wal-Mart.
The corporate giant reportedly labeled the nuns a security threat after they raised questions about Wal-Mart's business practices.
Sister Susan Mika is part of the Benedectine Sisters, which is part of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. The center has been questioning Wal-Mart's business practices for years.
"We've been raising questions with them for about 17 years, so it's not like they don't know it," Sister Mika said.
Now, the sisters find themselves on Wal-Mart's security threat list. Sister Mika said the group has been wrongly labeled.
"In no way have we ever been a threat to the company in that sense. We might be a threat in the kind of question that we're asking, but not a security threat," Sister Mika said.
The sisters have raised questions on wages, human rights, health care and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers. They believe that's why Wal-Mart has launched a surveillance operation on the small church group.
"We wanted to find out more about what was actually happening, and did they do any surveillance on us, either personally or as a community, and to let us know what that would be, and to apologize to us," Sister Mika said.
Calls from KENS 5 to a Wal-Mart spokesperson went unreturned.
The nuns say they want an apology and will continue to raise concerns and issues until someone launches an investigation into thousands of allegations against Wal-Mart.
ROTFLMAO!
These aren’t “nuns” they are leftist moonbat anarchists.
There actions have nothing to do with Christianity.
YOu ain’t got t prayer Sistah...
“The nuns say they want an apology and will continue to raise concerns and issues until someone launches an investigation into thousands of allegations against Wal-Mart.”
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Methinks the “nuns” should spend less time working on maximizing their PR time and hassling Walmart, and more time praying and doing “nun things”.
More about the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility:
http://www.iccr.org/about/listofmembers.php
“The Boerne Lunacy,” starring Matt Damon as Sister Rosetta Stone.
“The sisters have raised questions on wages, human rights, health care and the pay disparity between CEOs and workers.”
Karl Marx in a habit.
You’d think types like this would be more worried about the “stained glass ceiling” in their own church...
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We believe that every person has the right of access to health care...
...pay a sustainable living wage
...areas of executive and CEO compensation; independence and inclusivity of boards of directors, and board committees; and transparency and accountability to shareholders and community stakeholders.
...access to capital for the underserved.
...empower communities affected by environmental racism
...encourage the top three mutual fund companies in the United States — Fidelity, Vanguard, and American Funds - to start taking climate change seriously. Mutual funds have the clout to hold the companies in their portfolios accountable for their climate change impact.
We believe that every human being is created in the image of God...and protection of human rights –civil, political, social, religious, cultural and economic—are minimum standards for all social institutions, including companies. We commit to work to change corporate policies and practices
...the culture of violence in our society in a holistic manner recognizing that right relationships are based on the sustainability of communities, economies and the environment. The faith communities of ICCR are called to promote harmony among the human family and between the human family and all of creation.
Concerned for the more than 1 billion people around the world who currently do not have access to a safe water supply, the Working Group also seeks to hold America’s corporations accountable for water misuse and pollution.
Actually, it’s a mutual fund.
Puh-leeze, Sisters - as if Wal-Mart is the only company that practices pay disparity. Or, as if the union rank and file and union leaders (which is what this is really all about) don’t experience a little pay “disparity” themselves.
Dittoes... When I was growing up, the nuns in our parish were too busy making sure we behaved during Mass and CYC meetings to worry about such things......
Ever get cracked on the knuckles by a nun weilding a ruler? OUCH!!!
“Amen, Sister Alinsky.”
“Thank you, Sister Lenin.”
“Sister Trotsky, we need to have a private talk”
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“Whatever happened to Sister Trotsky?”
This must be that new organization that is an outgrowth of the Interfaith Center on the Naderization of the Corvair.
“...empower communities to speak truth to power to empower those affected by the power of environmental racism.”
Hmmm, seems like a worthwhile cause.
I don’t know anything about these nuns, but my guess is that the median age is something like 71.
If my hunch is correct, these nuns are among those who became confused in the 60s and began thinking that Christianity was Socialism.
The younger sisters in the orthodox orders are more focused on the mission of Christ.
I would imagine that it would be tough to keep prices low if Wal-Mart were to pay every Greeter 36 million a year.
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