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Red Cross Partners with Walmart for Disaster Relief



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Apparently, businesses do disaster better.  This was one of the key lessons during Hurricane Katrina which has now led the Red Cross to form a new disaster response partnership with Wal-Mart.  Naiomi Campbell offers a unique perspective of this sort of partnership could lead to dependence on a skewed system of disaster capitalism.  Read her article, “Pay to Be Saved,” at the Nation.

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