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By Doug Cunningham

A national Zogby Poll shows a solid majority of Americans - 56

percent - agree that Wal-Mart is bad for America. Chris Kofinas

of the Wake-Up Wal-Mart campaign…

[Chris Kofinas 1] : " I think it shows that this message and this

campaign is truly resonating. There is a growing feeling amongst

the American people, a wide swath - a clear majority of the

American people - that there's something wrong with how this

company does business and it's not acceptable."

Wake-Up Wal-Mart is waging a very aggressive, on-the-ground

series of actions during the holiday season designed to illuminate

the negative impact of Wal-Mart’s business practices from the

effects on underpaid workers who lack real access to health

insurance to the economic devastation of small businesses in

communities where Wal-Mart enters the market. Kofinas

predicts the Wal-Mart issue will gain a new national prominence

in 2006.

[Kofinas 2] : "This debate about whether we want to live in

Wal-Mart’s America or our America becomes a truly national

debate and will become one of the most important issues

discussed amongst the American people. Because at the end of

the day what this is really about is not simply about Wal-Mart.

It's about what kind of America we want to live in. That is what's

gonna happen next year. It's going to become one of the most

important issues this country can debate."